Tag: Think

  • Don’t Overlook the Small Things

    “You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all of the small things go in the right direction.” – Alvin Toffler

  • Do you want to manage engineering, or just the results of it? (Part One)

    I get asked the following question frequently…”Why, when we have <Insert the name of any general purpose Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) here> do we need another system to manage documents for the engineering team? You have to admit…it’s the right question to be asking. After all, no IT department should agree to manage multiple…

  • Thinking by Thomas Edison

    “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas Edison

  • The Case for an “Engineering Specific” Information Management System

    “We already have a system to manage documents (and/or data) and we don’t understand why the engineering team thinks they need yours.”  I’ve heard statements like this many times over my career. And the reasons behind it make sense. It usually comes from someone on the IT or management team that believes that they’ve already spent…