This month, I celebrate my first year in Knovel product management. So far, I’ve been impressed with the level of interest our user community takes in contributing suggestions for delivering engineering information – fast[er]  and [more] reliably.  Recently, I’ve been involved in a rolling out our Design Partner Program, to engage users actively in our product design and development process.  I’ve done this quite successfully in past lives, and know…

John Patrick is a Knovel Board member, former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, and one of the leading Internet visionaries as a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994. Most importantly, John is a tremendous asset to Knovel in helping to guide our strategy. His blog is closely followed by many thousands of readers and I am sure he will blog about being…

Today Knovel launches a new subject area, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. As one of my colleagues who trained as an industrial engineer recently told me, “Industrial engineers don’t make things, they make things better.” This content collection is built to support engineers and engineering management’s efforts to make things better.