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The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Made

February 2014

Intermediate to advanced

240 pages

4h 6m

English

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Love at First SightGetting over the WallWhat I Discovered in AmericaExecutive Takeaways
CAD History from the Cavemen in a NutshellCloud Looms over the PicnicI Looked up at the Cloud . . . and Saw the Ball Heading Straight at MeExecutive Takeaways
We Set Out to Stop Reinventing the Wheel . . . and Ended up with Something UnexpectedFour Flywheels Driving Open EngineeringBottom Line: This Revolution Is Bottom UpExecutive Takeaways
All Heads Converge in the CloudWrapping Heads around a New Business ModelThe Exciting PartExecutive Takeaways
Who’s Taking the GrabCAD Challenge?General OpennessSketching out a New Model for Design: Key Word Is “Collaboration”If Big, Start by Opening InwardStart-Ups: You and Whose Army?It May Look Good on Paper . . .Executive Takeaways

Virtual Is Virtuous . . .. . . But We Still Need to Get PhysicalExecutive Takeaways
No More Colored Collars?Offshoring: Amazingly Enough, It Works . . . So FarHomemade: Now It Just May Be ViableRobots That Speak CADThe Earth Becomes FlatMaking “The Old Man” VirtualWhat’s the Outcome?Executive Takeaways
As Close as Lips and TeethMake Your Engineers DancePut a Car on the Moon? Piece of Cake, MateThe Marketing Treasure in CADExecutive Takeaways
Piece by PieceThe Digital Force That Drives It Forward . . .. . . And the Decisive Factor That Will Determine the WinnersEnd the Senseless Zombie SlaughterThe Winning Hand?
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