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SVPMA Event: Evolving from Products to Product Suite Solutions in High-Tech

The Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA) is having its next session Wednesday, September 3rd. Brian Cox, Senior Director, Software Planning and Marketing, Hewlett-Packard will be discussing Evolving from Products to Product Suite Solutions in High-Tech. For full details on... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on August 18, 2008 9:01 AM

I am back... for now

Back! P.S. I think blogs are dead.. or rather dying and sorry to keep promoting my FriendFeed but the interesting stuff I find, and there is a lot of it, is now there (here). Thanks to Peter for keeping up... read more...

Posted by Stewart Rogers on August 14, 2008 12:59 PM

Next Product Management Webinar, August 20th, 12:00pm EDT : “Improving Product Choices and Profits with Decision Support Tools” with Paul Alvarez

Paul Alvarez
Principal
Revenue Growth Strategies
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Product Managers and Developers face difficult decisions every day. Choices about product pricing, features, and promotional spending are characterized by multiple variables and incomplete market information. This Ryma webinar will introduce product managers and developers to the world of decision support tools and illustrate how they can be used to bring clarity to Product Manager and Developer choices.
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Archive of Past Webinars

Hurdle Rates?

Hurdle rates, and generally ROI, are difficult – so don’t feel like you are in uncharted territory. Wikipedia gives a more detailed description here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdle_rate "The hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return that must be met for a... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on August 7, 2008 9:26 AM

Book Review: The Speed of Trust

The Speed of Trust, by Stephen M.R. Covey A busy few weeks lately, and someone actually let Stewart take a vacation - so the blogs been a bit quite! Its been a while since I've picked up motivational type books.... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on August 6, 2008 8:10 AM

SVPMA Event: Use Web 2.0 Tools to Build Better Products and Strengthen Customer Relationships

The Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA) is having its next session Wednesday, August 6th. John Burton, Director of Product Management at SAP, will be discussing using Web 2.0 tools to build better products and strengthen customer relationships. For full... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on July 30, 2008 1:24 PM

Past Webinar : How to work more effectively with your engineering team with Brian Lawley

Brian Lawley
CEO and Founder
280 Group
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Working effectively with your engineers is one of the key factors in product management success. To build great products you have to understand how to influence, motivate and collaborate with them or all of your other efforts may be wasted. This session will cover how to establish yourself as the market and customer expert, how to increase credibility with your team, how to read and interact with different personality types and how to subtly influence your engineers to get them to help you achieve your objectives. Drawing on over twenty years of experience working with dozens of teams (many good, but some horrible), Brian Lawley will share the tips, tricks, stories and best practices he has learned that will help you to be a better product manager. read more...

Posted by Glenn Imperial on July 30, 2008 12:20 PM | 10 Comments

Past Webinar: Gathering Market Inputs Within Different Product Planning Horizons with Scott Gilbert

Scott Gilbert
President
Enthiosys
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These days, product managers have an increasing array of market and customer data input gathering tools and methods available to them. Before selecting the tools and methods to be used it’s important to clearly define the questions and issues for which we seek information and to understand what planning horizon we are focusing on. This discussion will touch on the various goals, questions and techniques. read more...

Posted by Glenn Imperial on July 23, 2008 12:00 PM

Competitive Programs

Over the last month, I've introduced 4 competitive document templates. I'd like to take this opportunity to pull them all together, into a Competitive Program. If competitive information is lacking, and sales is being vocal about it, then we need... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on July 21, 2008 8:32 AM

How the SaaS Movement is Transforming Professional Services

Saw an interesting article on SaaS, and its effect on professional services from our friends at QuickArrow. For the full article, use the link below: http://www.quickarrow.com/news_events/serviceline_news/SaaSMovement.asp?Source-SLN&elq=C4FF76FE465B4CB59A90F51E843C0DAC... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on July 17, 2008 8:22 AM

Competitive Bulletin's

We have Competitive Maps, Profiles and Updates out of the way, let's move on to Competitive Bulletin's. Competitive Bulletin's are used to let our sales force, and other field facing personnel, get up-to-date on an event that has taken place.... read more...

Posted by Peter Ganza on July 15, 2008 1:51 PM

Announcing ProductCampToronto

The details are still being flushed out... but here is the link for more information.

http://barcamp.org/ProductCampToronto

Here is the link for the ProductCamp in Austin.
http://barcamp.org/ProductCampAustin.

Friendfeed, Twitter and CNBC

The real purpose of this post are my CNBC - Business of Innovation thoughts... but I also wanted to promote my FriendFeed link and also my Twitter link. I have pushed a lot of my content to FriendFeed because it is dead-easy. Check them out.

Anyway... I have watched to first two episodes of the CNBC special and here my bulleted / random thoughts.

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