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PowerPoint Karaoke Battle - Team Jeff Lash vs. Team Steve Johnson
It's PowerPoint Karaoke with a twist. Join masters of the impromptu slides Jeff Lash and Steve Johnson to help them battle it out for the title of #PPTKaraokeBattle champion. Alicia Dixon will serve as Mistress of Ceremonies & Host.
Participants will join either Team Jeff or Team Steve. Rounds will consist of timed presentations of unknown slides from one member of each team. The audience will vote on a winner for each round. The team with the most votes will be declared #PPTKaraokeBattle champion.
This session will be fun yet educational, as the ability to present and think on your…
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The Power Of Adjacency: Growth Strategies In Your Backyard
Identifying and exploiting new opportunities for growth is a constant point of tension for companies. Yet in this never ending quest for growth, many business strategists fail to see the opportunities that are right in their backyards – customer or capability adjacencies that are very natural extensions of their current strategies. An adjacency-based approach to growth has the benefit of leveraging business assets that already exist, but it does come with risks. For example, strategies that are too far afield from your core offerings – and thus with weak linkages – are likely to fail.
In this session we will…
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Getting More Out of the New Product Development Process
The reality that most new products fail -- at a rate of 40%-80% depending on your industry – highlights the fact the most new product development processes lose their way. A successful new product strategy requires a laser focus on your customer’s wants, needs and pain points from initial idea framing, to development, to testing, to launch and support. Done right, the NPD process extends well beyond the product itself into areas such as pricing, packaging, and sales and marketing. With practical tips and illustrative case studies provided by Mark Carr, Managing Partner of South Street Strategy, you will walk…
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Uncover the Secrets Your Customers Wish You Knew
"What if we're wrong?"
"What don't we know?"
"What did we not even think to ask?"These are powerful questions that have the ability to change the course of any project. Finding the answers can be scary, but you don't need to be a Sherlock, Mulder, House, or even a UX research expert to get out of your bubble and find some answers. You know that relying only on internal experts can be limiting, but getting out there can be intimidating. However, your customers want to talk to you. They want to tell you everything you need to know to…
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Five Steps to Creating a Content Strategy that Generates Leads
If you’re a product manager or product marketer, sooner or later you will have to create or drive content as part of your organization’s content strategy. This session will explain the five main steps you need to take to create a content strategy that generates leads. They are: 1) identifying your customer, 2) understanding the buyer’s journey, 3) auditing the content you have, 4) identifying new content to create, and 5) generating leads from your content. Sounds straight forward, but developing a good content strategy and executing it is a big challenge for most organizations and their aren’t a lot…
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Competitive Intelligence for Product Decisions
CI is commonly used to provide specific attack and defend tactics to sales. But wouldn't it be great to have reliable insight into competitive product features and roadmaps? CI can help uncover the product investments that buyers value.
In this session I will present a framework called the Kano Model, and will share some examples of product management-driven competitive analysis. The remainder of the time will be spent with all of you brainstorming ways to apply these tools, and identifying key questions whose answers would help you develop better products.
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Research techniques to really know your customer
What tool should one use for what purpose? When is observation better than interviews? Which quantitative methods have people used for product discovery and prioritization, and which ones are better?
I am happy to kick this off, and then let's have a discussion and share knowledge on this topic. I am sure we have lot to learn from each other on this topic
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Manage & Market Your Presence
Become an even more compelling communicator through dynamic, interactive exercises. Develop skills to enhance your presence and engage your listener.
You will
* communicate ideas persuasively
* discover how effective you can be
* bolster confidence
* have funWith Communication Skills Expert & Speech Coach, Lauren Garlick who maximizes her extensive experience in perfecting presentations and proposals.
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Developer Evangelism: Spreading The Word, Inside & Out
When we say that the web is becoming API-driven, we're really talking about using the offerings of specific companies like Facebook and Google. How do developers decide whose API to use and whose to abandon? Many of those companies are turning to developer evangelists and advocates to encourage developers, or even entire companies, to pursue deeper integrations.
The job description of a developer evangelist is akin to "professional hat-wearer" and usually includes aspects of sales, marketing, community management. There's a strong case for getting them involved in product management because they collect so much feedback from real users in real…
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How do you measure up? A crowd-sourced, cross-pollinated discussion on evaluating product marketing effectiveness.
As a product marketer how do you evaluate if you’re being effective? If you’re in marcomms, product management, sales or the CEO how do you evaluate if the role is being effective and properly supported?
Is product marketing judged on volume output such as leads, events, webpages or trainings produced? Are you being driven by “optics and politics” and “the way things are done here “or jumping on the latest trends and content tactics du jour.
How do you determine if your priorities are in the right place? If you are over or understaffed, if there are bottlenecks or organizational…
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When does a QA enter??
Yes we want to be more involved, yes QAs are the ones who spent a lot of time looking at the Product.
There has always been debate about when is the right time for a QA to enter into cycle and no matter how many emphasis have been given on the fact “Sooner the better” in reality its always “we are done writing reqs, devs are done writing the code, lets get the QAs involve”.
Here we can show some stats/ some possible solutions how its becoming more and more beneficial to involve the QA right from the day…6 votes -
Women in Product Management - Perilous Path or Rewarding Roadmap?
An opportunity to network with other women in product management/product marketing and share stories. What unique challenges do women face? What unique capabilities do women bring to the role? How have you gone about finding role models or mentors? How have you gone about overcoming obstacles? A session filled with stories, facts, ideas, observations, and jokes.
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m.flux – When Your Product is the Experience
We’ll discuss mcommerce and the focus on the mobile web or mobile apps from a user experience perspective. ECommerce and mCommerce solutions require development of the product as the interface between customer and a buying experience, and in most cases it doesn’t matter if there’s really a product behind it. The mobile site is intangible, constantly changing, and delivery is different for the product manager – to the extent there’s incorporation of design simplification, key result focus, and the importance of defining what the true business objectives are. Beyond requirements, user stories, or just a functional site, mCommerce may drives…
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Tell Me What You Need: Customer-Oriented Product Development
A successful new product or service strategy requires a laser focus on your customer’s wants, needs and pain points from development, to testing, to launch and support. Thus, a best-in-class NPD process takes an integrated approach that extends beyond the completion of the product to re-think and re-imagine how the launch will impact the entire value proposition -- including areas such as pricing, packaging, and sales and marketing. While many new product development processes do this to some extent, very few companies keep the customer at the center of this process every step of the way.
While it’s true that…
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The Art of the Survey (and interview): why companies often build the wrong products
For some reason, I’m strangely attracted to taking surveys. They seem like a great window into the minds of survey creators.
They may also explain a lot about why companies often build the wrong products.
When done well, surveys can often answer important questions and occasionally provide some real insights.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
But, most surveys aren’t very good. They tend to be the creation of either a wandering and curious mind or worse, they are the result of the corporate take-everyone’s ideas process. They also suffer from selection bias, poor completion rates and bad statistical…
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The Art of Rapid Prototyping
With today's highly interactive software, designing on paper is not enough. Without being able to play with the interface, you can't really know how it will work. Rather than putting this off to the development phase or an explicit prototyping phase, start prototyping while designing. Learn how to build quick prototypes to answer specific design questions.
Prototyping during the design process unlocks a deeper understanding of the system being designed, especially in today's world of highly interactive software. We all understand the value interactive prototypes can add to the design process, but prototyping can be unwieldy and quickly grow in…5 votes -
Lessons Learned from the Weather Forecasting Industry
The weather industry is in many ways “ahead of the curve” when it comes to serving its customers and integrating technology. In fact, the industry has had to address certain communication and technology obstacles well ahead of most other types of organizations. Lessons learned from the weather forecasting industry can be applied to other industries to not only reduce risk, but identify and capture opportunities.
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Prototyping with Twitter Bootstrap
I'm hopeful someone would be willing to lead a session on using tools like Twitter Bootstrap, Marvelapp.com, invision, etc. to quickly build a clickable prototype to test assumptions.
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Finding and growing great product managers
Great product managers are always in high demand. But they can come from lots of unexpected places; in fact they must, because they need to possess elements of lots of other specialties – design, engineering, sales, marketing, business, etc. So where do you find them? How can you tell if that guy with the theatre degree and 2 years’ experience doing product support just might have the instinct to make your product a legend? A posting on LinkedIn for a Product Manager just might be the worst way to find what your product really needs. This talk will consider some…
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