What happens if you gather 150 business people from various partners and from Dassault Systèmes to let them explore joint sales opportunities? My answer : this very much depends on their openness to share information and on the confidence they bring aboard.

Last week we hosted our community of partners at the DS Campus in Vélizy. After we experienced technology innovation during the DS developers’ conference for two days, the “Connecting Partners” Summit day focused on business collaboration for go-to-market. I was thrilled to see the intensity and depth of exchanges taking place everywhere: during coffee breaks, round tables and as part of a meeting format that we called “business speed dating”, where people can test out “if they want to get something going together”.

A collaborative approach to business is very sensible as any cooperation contains certain elements of competition. In a purely economical approach to business you want to get more than you give. However more and more we see a new way of starting business opportunities in an open exchange of information and ideas based on trust. Here you can take your chances and re-mix the ingredients to find the successful cocktail.

What are the benefits from participating in open-hearted communication : be well known, win followers, be influential and respected by peers. My thesis : active participants in professional communication forums get the pole position for being part of winning business collaborations.

I’m curious to hear your opinion. You are invited to complete all phrases where you agree (multiple choices apply).

Please note that for technical reasons you can take this poll via the perspectives.3ds.com site only (not via the email notification).

Thanks. Results of this poll will be discussed in a week from now.

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Michael

P.S.: related posts on this subject Community Spirit, Community Mobility

In photo: Nicolas Serikoff TVnima manager; Benoit Marini (his avatar) 3D avatar engine lead; Kate fm 3D Perspectives; Mehdi Tayoubi interactive media director

It’s time to add a third dimension to 3D Perspectives. Instead of reading this blog article, I thought you’d enjoy watching it in 3D on TVnima. See how many famous people you can find in the 3D show:

My take is that online 3D machinima applications, like TVnima, give you more professional-quality communications Powah. And in some ways you get more than real-life professional options, if you look at cameras for example. In TVnima there are 24 (yes, 24). How many in real life?

As Buzz Lightyear would say,

To infinity and beyond!

Best,

Kate

P.S. If you like this topic, you may also enjoy reading:

3D Merry Melody and Say it in 3D!

I was chatting with Anne Asensio the other day and she asked me,

“Kate, how much do you think designers want to communicate directly in 3D? There’re tons of blogs, website and email exchanges, but what about sharing in 3D?”

Here at 3D Perspectives and in the hallways at Dassault Systèmes we’ve been chatting about this. Richard’s Say it in 3D! blogpost generated a lot of interest and action in the comments section, and similar chats are happening in places like the Product Design Forum (thank you csven!).

Anne has observed, and I’m guessing you’ll agree, that in general people with design blogs or websites aren’t communicating in 3D. Why?

On one hand 3D is arguably a legitimate and practical universal language. On the other, employing 3D to communicate (online for the sake of this debate) is far from being mainstream.

Do we not have the right technologies to easily do this? Is it an oversight? Or is it not really preferred or important?

Please share your perspective in the mini poll below. By answering you’ll get to see the poll results.

Best,

Kate