2009 February

My social library: Shelfari

Shelfari: a cool web 2.0 site for discovering your next good book.

The one about the fat man who bought a treadmill

I spent a bunch of time and effort learning what leads to successful upfront CAE implementations in 2008. You gotta see this cartoon on the topic.

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Filed Under: CAE, Engineering Strategy

How to convert a scanned graph into real data

Have you ever had to pull data from an image of a graph? Maybe a supplier faxed you a 1940s era scan of the variable viscosity of peanut butter. Download this incredibly useful (and totally free) software tool to do the work for you.

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Filed Under: Random Upfront Thoughts, Technology

Quick tip: coordinate your international conference call

Scratching your head trying to figure out the best time to call a meeting for people in Czech Republic, Western Australia, Moscow, Boston, and Luxembourg? Here’s a great, free, online tool to slow your balding process!

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Filed Under: Personal Productivity, Random Upfront Thoughts, Technology

Push 3D into your RFP process to win more business

Traditional CAD rarely gets injected successfully into the upfront sales process. Direct Modeling (and SpaceClaim in particular) offers the guys hawking your products a huge advantage in this tough economy.

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Filed Under: Direct Modeling