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Yearly Archives: 2017

Digital Transformation: Half of Businesses Say They Can’t Keep up with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Innovation and new technology.  Those are the key elements of digital transformation.  But one other key element is people, people who are committed to change and willing to work to shape their organizations both strategically and operationally. A recent survey…

PLM+ALM: Product Management Evolving into Systems of Systems

By Dick Weisinger

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software manages the lifecycle of a product, through all phases, including concept, design, manufacturing, and maintenance. PLM systems allow businesses to track the evolution of a product part over the lifecycle and to also manage variations…

PLM Obsolescence: Engineering Giants Struggle to Keep up with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Large engineering companies are burdened with trying to upgrade and replace their legacy software. For example, Boeing and Airbus each have more than 2500 different software apps and tools that they use to manage the PLM processes for building their…

Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence to Made Better Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

Cognitive computing is the process of mimicking the human brain to enable better human decision making.  It involves humans as part of the loop, making it more a type of  “augmented intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence”. Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of…

Cloud Computing: IDC Predicts Cloud 2.0 to Continue to Drive Huge Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Spending on the Public Cloud is expected to tick upwards by nearly 25 percent this year to $122.5 billion, predicts IDC, a rate that is nearly seven times the overall growth rate for IT. Their report says to expect the…