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April 10-13, 2008
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Most people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/31/2006 5:43 AM
This was the rather surprising title to a spam email I just received. This entry looks into how Spam is affecting my working life and questions what the future holds
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PGM - another industry acronym to add to the list
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/18/2006 3:52 AM
If you create a new term and no one hears it, was it worthwhile? A look at Right Hemisphere's activities with "Product Graphics Management" provides a great case study in how to gain acceptance for a new term or concept, but is the term actually right?
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We are all Victims of Marketing
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/12/2006 1:46 AM
Contrary to popular understanding that new products are driven by customer demand, new research finds that IT innovations are giving rise to a new breed of product - created by changes in IT and then revealed to the public to fuel demand.
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Lester Craft's 'Brilliantly Dumb' Innovations
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/12/2006 12:49 AM
Lester Craft recently posted an article on COFES at his Innovate Forum site. In it he talks about the difference between 'just dumb', and 'brilliantly dumb' innovations: the difference is, according to Craft, that some of the biggest innovations have been brilliantly dumb. Read on ....
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Engineers and innovation: Conflict?
Joel Orr By Joel Orr on 5/11/2006
Yes, Rachael, everyone does know that loving shiny things is a guy thing. (By the way, that would be a 1956 Chevy, not a '52 - a dour, clunky box...:-))
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National Inventors' Hall of Fame Announce 2006 inductees
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 5/6/2006 4:28 AM
The National Inventor's Hall of Fame today announced its 2006 inductees. Why do we care? Because it is interesting to see just how long ago some important inventions were made.
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Look Out for Possible Interruptions to COFES.com over the Next Couple Days
Rick Stavanja By Rick Stavanja on 5/3/2006 10:26 AM
A COFES.com web site maintenance alert.
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COFES According to the Blogosphere
Rick Stavanja By Rick Stavanja on 5/1/2006 9:57 AM
Although it's been only a few short days since it wrapped up, bloggers have had much to say about their experiences at COFES 2006.
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Why CAD software sucks
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 4/26/2006 3:14 AM

There is a growth of concern about the continued usability - or lack thereof - of CAD software. Steve Wolfe hosted a briefing session about it and I am impatient to get the audio recording of it for reference. Martyn Day was intended to host a briefing about this at the event too, but unfortunately missed his plane and turned up late.

One of Alan Cooper's main complaints (our keynoter BTW) in his book 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum" is that interfaces on almost any product, anywhere, are not given the attention they need to make a product usable. This doesn't only refer to CAD products, but also to simple things like VCRs, microwaves etc. CAD products are incredibly power ...

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Innovation must start with the CEO: IBM study
Joel Orr By Joel Orr on 4/17/2006
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM VP, in "Always On" - http://www.alwayson-network.com/weblog.php
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