Robert Green

CAD Manager Column: Is lack of authority just an excuse for not being able to enforce standards and procedures? Here’s what you — and your upper management team — must understand about the necessity of authority in the CAD manager’s role.

CAD Manager’s Newsletter: Use the right communication tactics to make sure senior management supports and helps you, rather than hinders your CAD management strategies.

Being a CAD Manager is all about soft skills, such as communication, time management, organization, and situational awareness. Having situational awareness helps you find out the cause of a problem so you can better solve it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

CAD Manager Column: Where do you think your design data belongs? In the vendor’s cloud? Your own network? Find out why you should keep control of your data

As more of our data is held in the cloud, what should we be careful of?

CAD Manager Column: You read the news online, share photos, stories, and opinions online. Now your design files and work may be in the cloud too. Should you be concerned?

Find the bottlenecks in your CAD ecosystem, quantify the issues, and remove them one-by-one.

CAD Manager Column: Find the bottlenecks in your CAD ecosystem, quantify the issues, and remove them one-by-one.

For the most effective fixes, focus on the bottlenecks in your CAD ecosystem.

CAD Manager Column: What part of the CAD ecosystem should you focus on fixing?