CAD Management as a Competitive Advantage

We built the Autodesk® CAD Manager Center for all you CAD managers who feel in your bones that the right CAD management makes your company way more effective, but know in your head that it is extraordinarily hard to do.

Which is to say, all of you.

Last week, to get you started, I pointed to six videos from the CAD Manager Summit, a roundtable discussion of experts moderated by book and Cadalyst author Robert Green. In just a few minutes of pithy quotes, they laid out the many challenges and opportunities you face.

Here I point to an Autodesk CAD Manager Center article that dives deeper into one particularly resonant theme from that Summit.

Use CAD management for a competitive advantage

What are 3 ways to help your company gain a competitive advantage?

• Training: Do it right and, yes, your newly improved employees may leave you for greener pastures. But do it wrong—or not at all—and something worse may happen: They stay.
• Standards: Every company needs standards. But whether you impose them downward or let them bubble up from the hands-on experts—your employees—makes all the difference.
• The right tools: The importance of this one goes without saying. But, because we’re Autodesk, we actually have quite a bit to say on the subject.

Visit the the Autodesk CAD Manager Center to read 3 ways to help your company gain a competitive advantage.

Next up: The Autodesk CAD Manager Center—Your Guide to Software Trial Success

Effective CAD management builds on the basics, like having skilled operators.