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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

Scrum.org

We spend countless hours developing strategies to prevent bad outcomes, such as project failures, missed deadlines, and unmet expectations. By overemphasizing downside risk, we can inadvertently create environments that stifle innovation and creativity. We might prioritize rigid processes over flexibility or discourage experimentation.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

Scrum.org

How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? I have found that using metrics such as Innovation index are a good way to see the balance in an organization between operational excellence and innovation.

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Product strategy: where customer needs and technology align

Scrum.org

Roman Pichler’s work on the strategy stack depicts an important relationship beyond requirements for users to one of a symbiotic relationship between the product strategy and technology strategy. Technology’s role, importantly, is to provide a set of constraints for the product strategy.

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5 Strategies for Digital Transformation Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You also need to understand strategies that work before you begin so you can hit the ground running and avoid unnecessary delays or setbacks. In this blog post, we will discuss five key strategies for digital transformation projects. Table of Contents What are the 5 key strategies for digital transformation projects?

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.”

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

ProjectManager.com

Software innovation has also impacted the role of project managers with task automation and workflow automation that can automate task dependencies, approvals and notifications, streamlining workflows. Strategy Map Template A strategy map is a visual representation that shows the cause-and-effect of a strategic objective.

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How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. Then we’ll provide an example to better illustrate what we’re talking about and even provide a download to a free strategy map template to help you get started. What Is a Strategy Map? What Should Be Included in a Strategy Map?

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth. In this webinar, we'll highlight the critical importance of business and financial acumen in product management.

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Scaling to the Masses - Fit Your Product for a Larger User Base

Speaker: Dustin Smith, Sr. Product Manager, Incubator

Join Dustin Smith, Senior Product Manager of the Innovation Incubator at Indeed, and learn how to scale your product for greatness. Strategies to get internal support for your product. In this webinar, you will learn: Making the choice to scale. How to scale economically and efficiently.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

Understanding these trends is not only essential to staying ahead of the curve, but critical for those striving to remain competitive and innovative in an increasingly data-driven world. Our esteemed speakers will discuss the emerging trends shaping the future of product management and business intelligence.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. Gain inspiration from real-world success examples from top digital companies, offering invaluable insights into their winning strategies.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. Register today!

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

Innovation is both a process and an outcome. The best way to begin innovating your products is by innovating your internal process. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy. In this webinar, you will learn: The current leading trends in tech and their transformative impact on business growth. A roadmap to business excellence by understanding the importance of harnessing data, and automating processes.