The PLM Innovation Americas 2012 is North America's only independent and technology agnostic PLM event. Bringing together 300 senior end-users, thought leaders and select PLM vendors, the conference aims to leverage the collective wealth of knowledge and experience to identify and encourage best practice. The combination of a world class speaker roster, cross-industry case studies, targeted Think-Tanks and pre-qualified networking opportunities make this North America's must attend PLM gathering.

These comments are inspired by two things: 1) observations during PLM consulting work in life science companies and 2) remembering an article by Edeger W. Dijkstra, A Case Against the GO TO Statement, in Communications of the ACM 11 (1968), 3: 147–148.  As an R&D product development engineer, I have found the following a great help to innovation: change the vocabulary to change the perspective on the problem, the new perspective enables new insights for innovation.

I’ve had the opportunity to manage a large number of projects over the years from very large to very small and I have often found that the main challenges related to successful enterprise solution delivery are usually not technical.  Yes technical obstacles will exist, will need to be overcome and engineering tradeoffs made.  But in my experience the major roadblocks to enterprise implementations stem from improper governance, issues related to management of change (by that I mean organizational acceptance and understanding of value) and strategic investment shifts.

Believe it or not, there actually are some similarities.  Not sure if PLM is exciting?  Mike Tyson got a PLM lowdown for 10 minutes at DSCC this year, and you know what, the guy wasn’t bored.  Though, when it comes to Mr. Tebow, we have to be honest.  Put simply, it’s a catchy title, we are launching a new blog, and we are drawing you in!