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Who’s Moving Your BIM Goalposts?
Be Memorable, Clear, and Different
Disruption is Good When Innovating
Are Your Sales+Mktg Teams Aligned?
Plan Your Exit and Stimulate Innovation
Set Goals to Measure Your Success
Learning and Development Resources
Business is a Relationship Game
Giving Back via the Prince’s Trust
3D Laser Scanning & Point Clouds
Smart Money is on Prevention vs. Cure
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I am delighted to report that Gene Roe, the editor-
I guess I had better start thinking about my editorial calendar. I am keen to add a little structure and logic to my contributions and that’s hard to do if you just shoot from the hip each time you write. Watch this space.
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Welcome to the Oundle Group Blog! Thanks for checking us out and poking around our website. At this point (7th January 2012) we are adding to our site daily and this blog is our newest addition.
We will be using our blog to share news about Oundle Group, our clients, and other relevant industry snippets which we think are worthy of comment.
Posted by: Joe Croser
Excellent KnowledgeSmart blog post caused me to stop and ponder the relative merits
of ‘prevention vs. cure’ in a real-
Posted by: Joe Croser
For the last few years I have been completely immersed in the world of 3D laser scanning
and point cloud data reuse. I have lived it as a large software licensee, breathed
it as an early-
Posted by: Joe Croser
Throughout my working life I have benefited from some amazing mentors that have shared
precious insights from their life in business. I consider myself
very lucky and wonder
how different my life would be had they not invested in me. That’s why I am volunteering
for the Prince’s Trust as an enterprise programme mentor -
Posted by: Joe Croser
I follow Harvard Business Review’s tweets and enjoy some absolute gems as
a result.
Last week I read this great blog post by @AlexGoldfayn who has recently authored
a new book called Evangelist Marketing. In his HBR blog post Alex suggests that the
majority of media-
it helps. His advice? 1). Stop blasting.
Build relationships. 2). Consider eliminating press releases altogether. 3). Manage
relationships personally.
Posted by: Joe Croser
According to an IoD blog by Heather McGregor, 85% of communication is non-
verbal,
which is no surprise to me. Business is a relationship game; it's about people, their
personal interactions, and the trust they build: I strongly believe that new relationships
are best formed in person. But, as with many things in life, balance is key. For
example, I much prefer to
face-
Posted by: Joe Croser
Don't you love those 'light-
one
last week when I read this
at the
same rate, let alone in the same way. Hence with on-
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@The_IoD stages regular events and attracts some inspiring speakers. Financial Times columnist 'Mrs Moneypenny' recently shared the following three pointers for business leaders: 1). Prioritize, you can't do it all at the same time. 2). surround yourself with a strong team to enhance your own efforts. 3). set challenging goals to build confidence in yourself. In summary Mrs Moneypenny advised all entrepreneurs to “network with peers and and put in as many hours as you can.”
Posted by: Joe Croser
Following the recent Learning blog I've had lot's of requests from AEC profess-
Posted by: Joe Croser
Can you really manage what you don't measure? -
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I have been rubbing my temples trying to understand why Autodesk ended the Autodesk Labs technology preview for point cloud feature and shape extraction without ‘graduating’ the technology for commercial release as they usually do? Reading between the lines, performance for this preview was below the bar because it relied upon an under performing point cloud engine. But there’s good news ahead for Autodesk users… Read the full story on www.LiDARNews.com.
Posted by: Joe Croser
While reading another HBR blog post I wondered “Does a lack of succession planning
in technology firms inhibit innovation?” In big management consult-
ancies there is
an '
where the management are
often the founders, promotion opportunities are limited leading to a brain-
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Posted by: Joe Croser
The very best sales professionals build strong relationships with their
customers,
they develop a deep understanding of their needs, and they forge enduring friendships.
Could marketing teams learn from this ‘relationship’ approach to better align with
their sales colleagues? For teams that do Sirius Decisions reports a 3-
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For most people ‘disruption’ is an unwelcome thing. Bad weather disrupts air travel
and naughty children disrupt classrooms. But there are some disruptions that are,
for the most part, positive and welcome. Thought leaders and academics refer to these
as disruptive innovations. If you work in the high-
Posted by: Joe Croser
At Oundle Group we work hard to help technology firms stand out from the crowd. We
use a number of different tools and processes including the Pain, Feature, Advantage,
and Benefits (PFAB) tables to get to the heart of the customer’s pain adding focus
to the benefits afforded by your offerings, and Chasm Group positioning statements
to differentiate products in the face of
the competition. Seems HBR agrees with our
approach... Read More >>
P
F
A
B
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KnowledgeSmart -
and
benchmarking services -
Posted by: Joe Croser
Last week i read an excellent blog post by Kyle Lagunas, an HR Market Analyst at Software Advice. He opened his blog by explaining how times are changing in terms of information consumption and learning. He acknowledged that technology is playing a major role in these changes and he neatly laid out his argument for how gaming approaches can be adopted to make learning stick. Check it out for yourself at http://blog.softwareadvice.com
Posted by: Joe Croser
Are you moving your BIM Goalposts or are they being moved for you? Stand
still and
your competition will beat you to score the next big project. The days
of claiming
competitive advantage because you are ‘BIM Ready’ are long gone; being ‘ready’ is
no longer a differentiator – almost everyone now claims some BIM readiness. Today,
every well-
Posted by: Joe Croser
With the dust settling after the SPAR 2012 Conference, and with so many new announcements from hardware and software vendors still fresh in many people’s minds, I wanted to ponder a couple of recent and unrelated blog posts that take exception to vendors asking prospects ‘what keeps them awake at night.’ The argument made by these blog posters took a couple of different approaches to make largely the same point. Read my full musings on LiDAR News…
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A recent piece by Tom Sawyer in www.enr.com praised KnowledgeSmart’s
skills-
west side of the Atlantic.” David Spehar, corporate BIM leader at Stantec added,
"It's a great tool. We run so lean we need a solution that doesn't require high technology
and support overhead.” Spehar likes it so much he has expanded the
firm's subscription
to cover all 10,000 staff. Read the full story on www.enr.com…
