AUGIWorld Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 6) It’s Your Move: Strategies for Adopting New Technology Is 2009 the year you’ll adopt the “new thing”— be it BIM, digital prototyping, or something else? If so, step wisely and learn how to separate your obstacles and your assets This time last year, I was interviewing Autodesk’s Shaan Hurley for an article celebrating AutoCAD software’s 25th anniversary. Looking back on that interview and my research, I find it amazing that I’ve been involved with AutoCAD and Autodesk for so long. After all, at the same time that AutoCAD was beginning its rise to become the de facto standard for 2D CAD, 8-track tapes, audiocassettes, and VHS were popular—and we all know what happened to those technology marvels. 6 In today’s world of design and technology, change is the only true constant. Those of us who first adopted our CAD workstations back in the early 1980s were seen as leaders. We were the early adopters, the visionaries who took bold steps to change the way we approached design and drafting. If you were like me, you saw the future and wanted to be a part of it. But there were also those who refused to adopt—holding onto their T-squares until they could no longer compete with the demands of production design and drafting. Those laggards, the skeptics and critics who insisted “the old way is still the best way,” had to adapt to the changes in the design world by using CAD or else be left behind. Overcoming the obstacles of adoption Those of us old enough to remember the days of drafting tables know that the greatest obstacle to embracing the paradigm shift from the drafting board to 2D CAD was people. True, we encountered chalw w w. A U G I . c o m http://www.augi.com
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