Invasion of the 3D Printers

Are we on a roll or what?
Just a week after throwing a cool 3D Party, the Innovation team was at it again. They had Stratasys haul over not one, but 2 full size 3D printers to our cafeter…

3D Party – the fun in Innovation

As an innovative company, we’re pushing hard to find different ways to do things better, and, better ways to do things differently.

In the last couple of years, we switched to Agile, have …

Siemens PLM Europe Hackathon

Earlier this fall, Siemens PLM ran yet another Hackathon, this time for the European offices. As in earlier events, this Hackathon took place over two days, providing 68 people on 17 teams a day and …

Hackathon 2014 – Inroads to Innovation

Wow, we just held our third Hackathon (New Hackathon – Shaking things up from the Inside) in less than a year! Over half a year ago we had one in Pune (The Pune Hackathon – December 4-5, 2013), and t…

New Hackathon – Shaking things up from the Inside

New Hackathon – Shaking things up from the Inside

It’s accepted that companies leaning to Agile, will hold rites of passage to innovation from time to time. Hackathons play a big part in this. These days at Tecnomatix, we’re getting ready for our 3r…

Reveal our ‘Innovator Gene’ – Adopting the Ways of Lean

Reveal our ‘Innovator Gene’ – Adopting the Ways of Lean

With a Lean Startup orientation, we find that much of the software creation going on at our organization these days has moved to Agile, or is on the journey there. Now release cycles are rapid (mini …

Pushing to be More Innovative

Pushing to be More Innovative

To continue the conversation we started last post about the Hackathon takeaways – As a big organization, we need to be disruptive of ourselves, show a willingness to venture into new fields and techn…

Hackathon in the Wider Context of Innovation

Hackathon in the Wider Context of Innovation

After our Hackathons Siemens PLM Hackathon and Pune Hackathon I was looking to get the wider context of these special events. So I spoke to some serious dudes in our organization to get their t…

The Pune Hackathon – December 4-5, 2013

With a lot of excitement, I approached Ayala Arbely, who led our Hackathon in Israel, and then went on to do it again in Pune, India earlier this month. “Tell me all about it, Ayala!” I said. &…