Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Customer demo day
I was out for a big customer demo day yesterday. It has been a long time (3 years+) since I have gone to such an extensive and scripted demonstration of our products. A few observations: Boogeyman hd We have some smart M*****F******’s working for us. I thought I had a good handle on what we…
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Another reason for me to move to Media Center
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Entrepreneur secret sauce?
I have developed an idea for a great business. No I am not going to blog about my idea (not yet anyway…), but I am going to blog about the challenges I have faced so far and the one that is keeping me from moving forward. At first, I pitched my idea to the company…
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The paradox of innovation in the corporation
I’ve spent a lot of time with customers this week at our European users group. Its amazing to me all of the wonderfully interesting things that our customers are doing with our products. It was also amazing to me how much the message of innovation has taken hold. I guess the ‘stickiness’ of the innovation…
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Do alliance managers have to be two-faced?
I was sitting in an airport bar last week and struck up a conversation with the guy on the stool next two me. It turned out we both run the alliance teams for our particular companies, me in the PLM IT space, and him in the bio-medical space. After going through a few (very few)…
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Innovation is a Team Sport Podcast: Keith Jeacock, Theorem Solutions
Last bit of audio from PLM Europe. This is Keith Jeacock from Theorem Solutions, a JT Open Vendor member talking about why they participate in JT Open. Keith has been in the industry for a while and has some unique perspectives about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to open data standards.
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Innovation is a Team Sport Podcast: Mark Matousek, UGS
Sorry for being so slow in getting this audio up…as you may have seen the EVDO in Seattle let me down. This is the final presentation in the Innovation is a Team Sport track at PLM Europe and features Mark Matousek talking about our experiences with the JT Open program so far and what see…
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Spamalot
DeAnna and I went the second of our broadway series plays last night at the Aranoff to see Spamalot. Being a big Monty Python fan, I had high expectations and they were exceeded. There were more laugh out loud moments that I can count. Even one where I think I was the only one laughing…
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Finally, a simple picture that explains it all.
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