December 2009
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At the recent Arena Fall 09 launch event, we asked 200+ customers what their companies are planning to do in the next 6 months to move their businesses forward. I expected to see cautious optimism…and there was a lot of that. But one response was a (very pleasant!) surprise – 58% of respondents said they [...]
As we start the Arena blog, something else is ending—the decade. And that means best of (and worst of) lists are popping up everywhere. One of the lists that caught my eye is Laptop Magazine’s Best & Worst Gadgets of the Decade. I’m sure most of you can name the big winners—like the iPod or [...]
My Pragmatic Marketing mug stares at me every morning with the same stark reminder: Your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant. It’s a nice grounding statement, and more constructive than my Onion mug. But my mug delivers more than caffeinated goodness—it delivers a message that I need to step back whenever I get excited about a [...]
Min-Kyu Choi, a recent graduate from the UK’s Royal College of Art, has redesigned the standard British power plug with beautiful simplicity. His design reconceives the bulky unit originally invented in 1946 into a new form factor that folds up to just 10mm wide, about the same width as a MacBook Air or a #2 [...]
Welcome to the official blog of Arena Solutions. If you haven’t heard of Arena, the quick version is this: Arena serves small and mid-size manufacturers by providing on-demand software (also known as software-as-a-service or a SaaS solution) for managing bills of materials (BOMs), the engineering change process and supplier communication. In other words, we help [...]
