Renee Hopkins, Jill Hart, Francois Gossieaux and I had the pleasure of attending Dassault Systèmes’ 3DXForum in the US, and two weeks later it was Europe’s turn. The forum was exciting to follow even just virtually. Here are a few of the highlights in photos. First, the 3DSCATIA booth was running a live demo on yacht design
One of the clearest benefits of introducing tangible design factors to customers and stakeholders is the increase in the rapidity of useful feedback. As a critical ingredient in any innovation’s success, feedback response and its frequency greatly influence the ability of a design team to capture enough attention to move from innovation diffusion to accelerated
Last week’s innochat, “Gamification in Innovation,” sparked a lot of interest and participation. The idea behind gamification is to make work activities as enjoyable as games by tapping into what makes good games so addictive. The three principles that make games so additive are that you: have a challenge get immediate feedback on your progress
Michael Lilly has long been intrigued with technology. So it’s no surprise that he’s the CTO and co- founder of Cambridge, MA-based start-up, Code-laboration, which helps transform real-time online interactions. However, the path to innovation is often circuitous, and the route Michael Lilly has navigated has been no exception. And it’s that circuitous route that has helped him
I had the pleasure to talk with Francoise Legoues, the VP of Innovation in the office of the CIO at IBM. We discussed innovation, culture as well as some big trends affecting companies worldwide. Francoise is a long time IBMer. She started in their Physics Department after getting her PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon
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3D printing technologies let designers manufacture almost any shape they’ve imagined and computed in 3D software. Traditionally, designers were constrained by materials’ properties because forms and shapes had to be manufactured in a reductive way (removing material to make the shape). 3D printers, in contrast, mimic nature by letting objects “grow.” That is, 3D printers
Companies don’t want to pursue collaboration for its own sake — they want results. For a collaborative effort to deliver on those results, the benefits must outweigh the costs. To reduce the costs of collaboration, focus on two areas: Reduce the opportunity costs of collaboration. That is, make it easier for people to find each
When consulting firm Booz & Company asked R&D leaders in 186 countries in 19 nations to name their top three challenges, the #2 challenge cited was how to encourage collaboration across geographic locations and functions. How do firms tackle the challenge? The most effective solution is to use collaboration platforms, like Dassault Systemes’ ENOVIA, that let
With this post, my first of the New Year, I’m introducing one of my favorite types of blog posts, the link roundup. Each week I’ll share a roundup of four or five of the most interesting things I’ve read recently on collaboration and innovation, starting right here: MIT Management Professor Tom Malone on Collective Intelligence
Finding predictable patterns in data can lead to new insights, better products, new profits, and even new cures for diseases. But creating predictive algorithms can be hard due to the novelty of the data, noise in the data, and the nuances of the domain. So, some data-intensive companies have turned to collaborative innovation to find