Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Co development – the alliance manager will be the product manager of the next decade!

    CoDev 2006 – Co-Development for Business Growth: Open Innovation and Alternatives I just got back from CoDev earlier this week. It was one of the first focused PDMA conferences I have attended and it was quite good. The blend of topics discussed (from alliance frameworks to the need to innovate in teams across the value…

  • I'm Back !!!

    Well after what seemed like an eternity, I finally have everything back in place to be running this site.  The crtical missing piece had been high speed internet access to my house, which has been installed for a week now.  It took a ditch witch (and there is a reason they call those things witches),…

  • Crossing the Innovation Chasm

    Dealing_with_Darwin: Beyond “Innovation”  This is a great post by the author of the Crossing the Chasm series of books, Geoffrey Moore.  It is a really articulate view of why the ecosystem matters in bringing new innovations to market.  This lines up perfectly with the idea we have been talking about at the job: global innovation…

  • Blog going down again

    Unfortunately, it looks like my blog will be going down again as we move from our apartment to our new house.  This may be a bot longer than the outage when we moved to the temporary apartment a few months ago as getting high speed Internet service is going to require an engineering project from…

  • What RSS reader do you use?

    I discovered the word of RSS over a year ago and used a simple windows based tool to read a few blogs.  I think it was called RSS Bandit or something like that.  Over time I ran in to some limitations so I thought I would try one of the commercial readers and ended up…

  • PLM as an enterprise app: straight from the CIO's mouth!

    » Dana Corp. CIO Bruce Carver: “Having too much IT and not the right IT” | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com This was a cool suprise on my drive home tonight. I was piling through a bunch of short podcasts and got to listen to this one from the zdnet feed which I just subscribed…

  • Who's out there?

    Ok, I’ve been @ this for about a year It’s been an interesting experiment, but now I am wondering howmuch I an being read. There are few comments here and there, but not so many that I then then are regular readers. Am I wrong?

  • Planning

    The more times I have been through the annual planning cycle, the bigger fan I become of emergent rather than deliberate strategy setting. I guess some may say that I’m lazy, but I really think it is just too hard for anyone to gather enough information on what is really going on in today’s complex…

  • Work…if it was anything else, they'd call it fun!

    We’re well into our annual planning cycle at the J O B. This is the fun time of year where we all get to make wild speculations about what might happen if we just spent a little more money, all talk to each other about how we need to focus and spend more time huddled…