Tackling Change Phobia

Process, technology and people: COE speaker David Prawel to address challenges of 3D PLM

One of David Prawel's friends, a director of engineering at Delphi, refers to the typical change-resistant employee as "Bob." Prawel, who is founder of the digital manufacturing consulting firm Longview Advisors, explains: "Bob is someone who's been using a particular program a certain way, and he doesn't want to change." p>

At the upcoming COE 2006 Annual PLM Conference & Technifair, March 19-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, Prawel will talk about reforming Bob, along with all his counterparts who are similarly suffering from change phobia, and much more.  Read more >>

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