Research Nation: A Visit to Finland, Part4

The LaiseBoyPhilosophy, Part 8—Profiles in Readership

LaiserinLetterLetters

Laiserin's Lemma—Lessons from the Plant Kingdom




Today's Top-Level Take-Away: Words of Wisdom
> "Information is slavery to other people's thoughts. Knowledge is freedom and the power to think on one's own."
- Daniel D. Hade, College of Education, Pennsylvania State University


Research Nation: A Visit to Finland, Part4
As recently as the middle of 2001 I believed that true, concurrent, on-line AEC collaborative design was still some time away in the distant future. Then, folks from a Finnish company called Enterprixe Software Ltd arrived in the USA for an unadvertised series of invitation-only one-on-one demos. The company's eponymous product was and is nothing short of electrifying, so much so that i gave it an unqualified (albeit brief) rave back in IssueThree. However, because I've seen my share of software that demos well in beta or early release, yet fails to live up to expectations in a production environment, I chose to spend an entire day, during my latest trip to Helsinki, visiting the company and observing its software in action on real projects. In hindsight, I now see that my earlier rave barely hinted at the industry-transforming potential of this product.
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The LaiseBoyPhilosophy, Part 8—Profiles in Readership
With nearly six months of newsletter publication and website traffic data in hand, we've gleaned enough to profile who our readers are, what you do, and which organizations you work for or learn from. While not what carbon-smeared-dead-tree publishers call "controlled circulation," we do consciously manage our circulation to ensure that our analyses, strategies and opinions reach the technology leaders, decision makers and key influencers in design business, education and research. So, if you're reading this, read on to find out where you fit in among our high-powered, high-profile readers in 82 countries.
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LaiserinLetterLetters
An occasional sampling of reader electron-mail, or "keep those waves and particles pouring in, folks!"
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Laiserin's Lemma—Lessons from the Plant Kingdom
Not long ago, I was invited to speak about "Lessons Learned in Collaborative Design & Construction" at a gathering of 2,000 petrochemical and pharmaceutical process manufacturing customers of Aspen Technology at their annual AspenWorld conference. My hosts expected to be enlightened by what they imagined were the myriad successes and advanced art of AEC project collaboration. Instead, I learned yet again that it is the AEC industry taking the hindmost, while other industries go quietly and methodically about building knowledge.
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