Tag: Strategy

Category Leadership – Magic or Myth? with Ken Rutsky, Consultant, Speaker, Author

Summary Every startup wants to be the next Salesforce, zScaler, or Slack, the creators and dominant forces in their categories.  Beyond accelerating enterprise value growth, category leadership can create a market magic that thrills customers, investors, and employees and also drives competitors crazy with envy.   However, many CEOs and product leaders consider category leadership difficult,…
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Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There with Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth at RingCentral

Topic Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There Speaker Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth, RingCentral Summary If you spend any amount of time reading about high-tech, it seems as if everyone has artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) as their secret sauce. The reality…
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Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to Corporate Strategy with Jessica Sweeney

Learn to create an outcomes-based roadmap using a bottoms-up approach and a top-down approach with affiliated business metrics. Join us via Zoom for Jessica’s talk to learn how to connect product development to the corporate strategy. When Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm PST Topic Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to…
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Fast-Track into Product Leadership and Claim Your Seat at the Strategy Table with Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach

Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again. Speaker Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach Summary Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again.  We will walk through why working harder is the worst…
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Farming for Dissent – The Road to Improving Your Product Strategy with Ritu Goyal, Director of Engineering, Netflix

Getting your product strategy right is a tough job. Irrespective of the domain and the size of the company, product managers need to have conviction in their strategy and place smart bets. Even if you do all the research in the world up front, it is hard to know all that might go wrong. So…
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Making Great Strategy: Arguing Your Way to Strategic Clarity

Is strategy a participation sport at your company? In these chaotic, fast-changing times, everyone should be empowered to contribute. Yet, do you feel more confused about your company’s strategy than ever, or your role in it?  Does the annual planning process make you cringe?  Many executives are frustrated by and/or omitted from their strategy process. …
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Happy New Year, Welcome 2021!

As our very long (and short) year of 2020 has drawn to a close, and people begin to look towards the future, I thought I’d share a video I found both amusing and thought provoking. In 1967, Ford/Philco captured their view of what the far-in-the-future year 1999 would look like. Nearly 20 years after this…
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Meeting Archives 2020

Meeting Archives 2020 Please click on the link below to see the meetings for that year. 2021 | 2020 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000…
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Workshop – Mastering Virtual Persuasive Presentations – How to Get People to Zoom In Instead of Zone Out

Summary Let’s face it, today’s remarkable technology lets us communicate far more quickly and frequently than ever before with clients, colleagues and friends. It also creates more competition for attention with people working from home and across multiple cultures, time zones, and boundaries.  What do you do if your audience is distracted, multitasking, dealing with…
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Intellectual Property Issues in the Research, Development, and Sales of Products

Legal issues related to intellectual property can have positive and negative influences on the successful research, development, and sales of technology products.  Awareness of, and planning for, potential negative intellectual property issues can mitigate or avoid risks to the commercial success of new and existing products.  Similarly, the development of intellectual property assets can help…
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