Jim Brown
Jim Brown is the President and founder of Tech-Clarity, an independent research and consulting firm that specializes in exposing the true business value of software technology and services. Jim has over 20 years of experience in application software for the manufacturing industries, with a broad background that includes roles in industry, management consulting, the software industry and research spanning enterprise applications such as PLM, ERP, SCM and others.
Title: VP Product Innovation & Engineering Research
Email: jimbrown@aberdeen.com
PLM and ProfitabilityLink This | Email This | Comments (2) What I Learned: Virtual Fashion Shows via PLMWhat I learned this week … came from an article on Yahoo! Tech News titled Technology in starring role at NY Fashion Week . The article really made me think about how virtual worlds, social computing, and PLM could transform fashion shows . Note: The video grab is from a site called “vimeo” posted by “Four H” and the link to their great Lego... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) What I Learned: People Tagging in Product DevelopmentWhat I learned this week … was sparked by some recent social networking announcements on people tagging. The most recent was that Facebook plans to offer tagging very similar to what Twitter offers . This follows other announcements around geo-tagging, but I am really most interested in how tagging people can help in product development (and overall in product innovation) .... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (1) What I Learned: Idea Management as a Software EcosystemWhat I learned this week … came from some research I have been doing for a client. As a part of it, I have been spending a little more time getting to know the “Idea Management” software space. The conclusion that I am drawing is that while there are some mature software solutions to manage ideas , there are also a host of other specialty solutions that help... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Going One-to-One with Quality Lifecycle Management Vendor DyademI had the chance to talk with … a couple of vendors this year about Quality Lifecycle Management , or QLM. I posted earlier about What I Learned: Expanding PLM’s Pervue - Quality and Risk Management and promised to follow up with some more detail on the vendors. Here are my thoughts on my conversations with Dyadem . One early caveat is that Dyadem - while they support... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (3) What I Learned: Mining Social Network Emotions and Opinions for Product DevelopmentWhat I learned this week … came from an article in The New York Times by Alex Wright. The article, Mining the Web for Feelings not Facts , was a great look into a concept that is new to me, an emerging field called “ sentiment analysis. ” The article defines sentiment analysis as “ translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data .” The examples... More |
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