Boston Scientific gets innovative

Dec 16, 2009 | Hot Topics

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to hear Boston Scientific speak about how it sought to build a culture of invention and discovery that leads its various businesses to successful new products. Randy Schiestl, VP R&D, and Jude Currier, cardiovascular...

ESI reports Q3 sales up 3% on strong growth in services

Dec 15, 2009 | Hot Topics

ESI Group reported reasonably good results for the third quarter today, as total revenue grew 3.2% to €13.8 million in what is typically the company’s weakest quarter. License revenue declined almost 6% to €8.5 million when compared to a year ago, slowing the steep...

Holiday Greetings: Efficiency, personalization, environment

Dec 10, 2009 | Hot Topics

This blog post on the Harvard Business Review site got me thinking. They point out that this time of year is hectic, and that holiday cards have a way of getting lost in the shuffle. Either we spend too many hours personalizing greetings, leading clients to wonder...

The SEC, ANSYS and deal ethics 101

Dec 10, 2009 | Hot Topics

My browse of the morning news turned up a Wall St. Journal story that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking at how brokers, hedge funds and others dealt with information about, among a dozen other deals, ANSYS’ acquisition of Ansoft.Before we all...

Hmm … CFD results via Twitter

Dec 9, 2009 | Hot Topics

Every so often, someone comes along and does something I honestly would not have thought of: Symscape, a UK CAE vendor, announced recently that release 2.0.1 of its Caedium product includes “the world’s first automated simulation telemetry system for posting...

2102: Reliable Plant says manufacturing returns to the US

Dec 7, 2009 | Hot Topics

Reliable Plant, an industry magazine for the manufacturing community, just came out with predictions for 2010. It’s a provocative piece and the predictions have interesting implications for the PLM community: 1) Production will return to the United States. The author...

Siemens AG has a tough quarter; what about PLM?

Dec 3, 2009 | Hot Topics

Siemens AG on December 3 announced dismal results for its fiscal fourth quarter, ended September 30, with total revenue down 9% to €19.714 billion. According to the company, “While the global economy showed increasing signs of stabilizing, capital investment was still...

AU Virtual: just like being there?

Dec 3, 2009 | Hot Topics

I’ve been to a number of Autodesk University events in Las Vegas, and can tell you that they are HUGE. Last year, around 10,000 people crammed into the convention center attached to the Palazzo and Venetian Hotels, attending the handful of keynotes, dozens of...

Keeping tabs on what people say …

Dec 1, 2009 | Hot Topics

Last weekend, a famous athlete was involved in a car accident that has many weird aspects. While all that ultimately matters is whether he or anyone else was seriously injured, the media has been buzzing about the lack of solid information about why he was out in the...

Twitter Top 10

Nov 30, 2009 | Hot Topics

As many of you know, I’ve been experimenting on Twitter: checking out what the PLM companies are doing (not much) and trying to figure out who is doing Twitter well, with a view to getting that out there so that everyone can start off strong. Here are my top 10 dos...