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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

Is your team having too many meetings? Do you ever come to the end of a workday and feel stressed because instead of getting any productive work done, you have spent nearly the whole day in back-to-back meetings? 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. These meetings may seem like the best time to do this.

Meeting 247
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Meeting Expectations Versus Managing Hope

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken At a recent customer service presentation, the speaker who preceded me said that we must do better than simply meeting our customers’ expectations, and he shared some stories of truly amazing service experiences. Then it was my turn to speak. I didn’t want to contradict him, but I needed the […]

Meeting 79
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East meets West in understanding Innovation Cultural Orientation

Paul Hobcraft

East and West- the different meeting points in understanding. I recall I wrote one of my first posting entries for this site, entitled “ The Yin and Yang of Innovation ” ( [link] ) and talked about the ‘fluidness’ in innovation that makes it hard to manage. Dilemmas of orientation and management when East meets West.

Meeting 317
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20 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Effective and More Fun.

Destination Innovation

Meetings are unpopular. A study by Steven Rogelberg, of the University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in a range of industries: 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work; 71% said meetings are unproductive and 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. Let’s face it.

Meeting 141
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Generative AI Will Transform Virtual Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI will forever change the way meetings are conducted. In the near future, meetings will offer personalized content and purpose-driven expertise, while also serving as guardians against bias and promoting active learning.

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Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business Review

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity?

Meeting 97
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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

With all the technological improvements relevant to product management, there is an increasing need to educate new product managers as well as upgrade the abilities of experienced professionals. Unfortunately, little has changed in the world of product management education, training, or preparation to meet today’s high demand.

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Best Practices for Modern Records Management and Retention

Speaker: Sean Baird, Director of Product Marketing at Nuxeo

Organizations in highly regulated industries are realizing that traditional records management practices are insufficient and ineffective in today’s digital world. Join Sean Baird as he highlights best practices for effective records management and retention. Documents are at the heart of many business processes.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

In today's rapidly evolving market, product managers face the challenge of driving innovation while also meeting the needs and expectations of their existing user base. This webinar aims to equip you with strategies and insights to successfully navigate this delicate balancing act.

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Service Delivery: When Is the Right Time to Deploy Your AI?

Speaker: Dick Stark and Casey Steenport

Join our experts for this insightful webinar where members from our team will also be available to answer your questions so you can walk away feeling confident in how AI & automation can empower your organization’s service management. Service delivery is supporting the current crisis and identifying opportunities for future improvement.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Regardless of whether you work for a startup or a larger business, its critical to understand what product meets the needs of your audience, what unique value proposition this product is bringing to the market, and when you are straying away from the identified PMF. Scaling a successful product after PMF has been established.

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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. Are we willing to live with some level of technical debt in order to ship product and meet deadlines? Whether you like it or not - because it can’t be avoided. We have to accept that nobody gets away without some technical debt.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

Have you ever had internal financial goals handed down to you that seem nearly impossible to meet? As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. In fact, some of us may actually face it every single year!

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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.