Tag: Econsultancy

Aug 05 2009

From PLM and social media, to AEC design

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
5 August 2009

I have been monitoring conversations about social media among some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) commentators, and a post by Desktop Engineering‘s Kenneth Wong – What PLM Can Learn from Social Media – has lingered in a browser tab for most of the past two days as I’ve re-read it and pondered it. Kenneth …

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Apr 15 2009

The internet as a lifeline for AEC SMEs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
15 April 2009

(This is a slightly updated version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses potential use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), among other tactics, for managing the impact of the recession upon SMEs in the AEC sector.) Given that most of the businesses active in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors are small or medium-sized …

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Feb 02 2009

Tackling ‘the interweb thingy’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
2 February 2009

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a BBC Business article by Tim Weber from last week’s economic summit in Davos. In How companies tackle the interweb thingy, he points out that while every company worth its salt has a website, many “are still struggling to move beyond having a colourful website towards really using the …