March, 2020

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The 5 steps for implementing digital business models

The BMI Lab Blog

When innovation projects fall too early into the standard project management paths, false expectations and insufficient evaluation of the fundamentals may occur. This discrepancy has to do with the requirements of the company and its employees, as well as the frequent lack of a systematic validation approach.

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Six Things I wish I had known before I accepted the position of Chief Innovation Officer

Destination Innovation

This undermined my innovation projects. Getting them to allocate time and resource to new product projects proved difficult. ‘We Sales of current products and services were funding the payroll so they had to be protected with precious resources. Innovation is not a one-off project; it has to be a way of life.

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Five Ways to Innovate in a Risk-Averse Corporate Culture

IdeaScale

Establish Clear Criteria when Funding Projects. Projects are funded in phases. Clearly define phases when funding projects. If a project passes a phase, you can fund it for the next. If a project passes a phase, you can fund it for the next. Some are expensive while others are less costly.

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Embracing Agile Methodology to Spur Innovation

IdeaScale

The agile manifesto was created in the early 2000s by software developers who wanted to bring their products to the market faster and more efficiently. Agile methods have since been adopted by a multitude of non-technology industries that are applying its principles and core values to project management initiatives.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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The 10 Rules of Digital Transformation

Rmukesh Gupta

He started the session with the 10 rules of digital transformation and I thought that this is a great set of rules that we can keep in mind before we embark on a digital transformation project. According to a survey done by Mckinsey , leadership matters as much in a transformation project as in day-to-day activities.

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How to Manage Remote Distributed Teams – Best Practice Strategies and Tools

Leapfrogging

Here are best practices for how to lead a productive remote or distributed team. Remaining effective is always a challenge in tough times, but when you add an entirely new working model into the mix, it can deliver a double whammy hit to productivity. Technology tools allow teams to run real-time meetings, manage projects, and more.

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products? What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap?

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results. Join us for a deep dive into Forrester’s Predictions report to get more information on next year’s digital commerce landscape.

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3 Challenges of Building Complex Dashboards with Open Source Components

Speaker: Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal, LeanStudio

Many product teams use charting components and open source code libraries to get dashboards and reporting functionality quickly. Watch this webinar with Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal of LeanStudio, to learn about key considerations for launching your next analytics project.

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The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Design

Dashboard design can mean the difference between users excitedly embracing your product or ignoring it altogether. Great dashboards lead to richer user experiences and significant return on investment (ROI), while poorly designed dashboards distract users, suppress adoption, and can even tarnish your project or brand.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

We hope this guide will transform how you build value for your products with embedded analytics.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

As a Product Manager, you probably have to deal with technical debt. Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines?

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We had trouble measuring product progress until just before release—often too late to change anything. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights. Empowering product managers to drive decisions. Multi-channel experiences and product growth. Increasing profitability.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

Industry-wide, product teams have adopted discovery practices like customer interviews and experimentation merely for end-user satisfaction. As a result, many of us are still stuck in a project-world rut: research, usability testing, engineering, and a/b testing, ad nauseam. June 24, 2021 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.