LaiserinLetter™ Lassoes Laurels The LaiseBoy™ Philosophy, Part 2: Matching Technology Strategy to Business Objectives The Great Atlantic & Pacific User Group Trek: Bentley in Atlantic City, New Jersey & Deltek in Coronado, California Model-Based Collaborative Design Laiserin's Lemma™—Does Technology Diminish Design? LaiserinLetter™ Lassoes Laurels In only its second week of publication, the LaiserinLetter leapt into the Top Ten listings maintained by TenLinks.com, the leading portal site that organizes the Web for technical professionals. Considering that some of the other Top Ten contenders in our category have been at it as long as seven years, we are humbled by the comparison. TenLinks also named us "Site of the Week," a double honor! Who's reading us now? The LaiseBoy™ Philosophy, Part 2: Matching Technology Strategy to Business Objectives One of the toughest decisions any manager faces is matching her firm's technology choices to its organizational structure and style. Understanding a few simple propositions about design business, technology product cycles, and the relationships between them can help managers develop attention and investment strategies that focus on the right technologies at the right time. The Great Atlantic & Pacific User Group Trek: Bentley in Atlantic City, New Jersey & Deltek in Coronado, California Vendor-sponsored user group conferences span a stylistic range from corporate dog-and pony shows to cult-like initiation rites. Very few such conferences succeed in breaking the mold, but two recent events provided heart-warming (and brain-tingling) counter-examples. Read what you missed. Model-Based Collaborative Design Now that post-and-host document-based collaboration is moving from the leading edge for early adopters towards pacing technology for mainstream users, the race for model-based collaborative design also has moved—where document-based systems were five years ago. Our quick overview of the field helps you identify the horses and decide where to place your bets. Laiserin's Lemma™—Does Technology Diminish Design? (lemma: a short theorem used in proving a larger theorem) A recent survey of design clients, conducted on behalf of a leading professional society, touched only briefly on the role of technology, but reached a disturbing conclusion nonetheless. Seems design clients see "CAD technology as a crutch, rather than as a supplementary tool during the design process." Worse, a recent study indicates clients fear that designers' over-dependence on technology makes them "more likely to make errors that will cause problems later in a project." Is it worth becoming a worry-wort over this news?