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On this episode of the Digital Enterprise Society podcast Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Vertex Software’s Jim Zwica and John Heller to share how they started, where they came from, and some of the industry challenges they face today that you may relate to. John and Jim share some of the experiences that helped them recognize the need for greater collaboration in their work.  Based on these experiences, they share various strategies that you can use to embrace and encourage greater collaboration while growing their career. Their advice is filled with effective strategies for anyone that is looking to maximize beneficial collaboration opportunities in their work.  You won’t want to miss this advice from two industry leaders that have seen the positive effect of better collaboration at work. 

On today’s podcast you will learn:

Ideas for overcoming persistent collaboration problems

• Enabling information exchange within PLM spheres
• Improving product management and development
• Identifying the value of collaboration within PLM 

A look at unsolved collaboration problems

• Why do people continue to hesitate when they need to access 3D model data sets?
• Sharing models in an effective way
• Identifying the correct information
• User scalability requires bringing in the correct individuals
• Hardware support and staffing limitations

Driving factors that will encourage more effective collaboration

• Expectations from the next generation of engineers
• How you can harness a competitive spirit to influence change

Embracing collaboration to improve your growing career

• Challenge the status quo
• Share your ideas, even if they aren’t perfected yet 
• Seek out collaboration opportunities
• Anticipate the need to reinvent your skill set multiple times in your career
• Stay focused on the expected outcome, not the tools that enable it
• Study and implement Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints

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