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		<title>Managing Products During Economic Volatility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ongoing tough economic conditions are like the weather &#8212; everyone  talks about it, but it is challenging to do something about it.  We all  need to understand how companies’ product decisions and strategic  directions are affected by difficult economic times, so BakBone surveyed  330 people worldwide with product management responsibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Design: What it is and how to do it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Why should you, as a product manager, care about Emotional Design?
How does Emotional Design get done and how does this impact  the development schedule?
How can you ensure that actionable information related to  emotional design is communicated throughout your organization?
How do you begin to manage the incorporation of emotional  design into a product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating The Customer Experience to Your Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few savvy companies have proven there is a new frontier that  includes and goes beyond product innovation.  These companies have made  the case for delivering purposeful customer experiences that create new  markets or new segments tapping the revenues, profits and customer  advocates that go with it.  These companies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Roadblocks And Gaining Customer Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever find yourself not paying attention to what the customer is saying?  Every find yourself talking louder because they don’t seem to understand your brilliant point?  Ever walk away from your development team ‘hoping’ they deliver what they promised, but thinking they probably won’t?
How’s that working for you?  Even more to the point, how’s that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Every Product Manager Needs to Know About Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This session will discuss what constitutes information security,  provide some examples of recent breaches and talk about why it matters  to people even outside classical high-tech. It will then close with some  recommended market requirements.  It will not be very technical, and  not attempt to teach people about technical issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s not what I asked for!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of words, misunderstood &#8211; Professional dialects and product failure 
What we have here is a failure to communicate! Spoken and written language is the primary way through which we communicate (humans do have many other modes of communication such as body language and behaviors but we will save that for a session at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Product Management Can Increase Innovation to Drive Productivity and Competitiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is essential to success. New strategies for innovation  would better enable market and business success. This talk will focus on  how to improve the innovation process using complexity factors and open  systems theory to create stronger competitive advantage and business  opportunity.
Session Leader: Michael Alvarado combines twenty-five years of high  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Visit 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True or False – Product &#38; Brand Managers should use what  they know to design solutions.
Before you answer, ask yourself what you know about the user of your  product. We mean, REALLY know. Not just their age, race or gender, but  who they are, what motivates them, and how your product fits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Insights; Fundamental To Building Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Obtaining consumer insights is fundamental to building your  business.  Contrary to popular belief, when done right, consumer  research is actionable, inexpensive, and dare we say… fun?  In this  session we’ll topline consumer research basics, share some real-life  examples, and work through several straight-forward quantitative and  qualitative techniques that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Product Management Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agile Product Management Track is a full day, 10 part, training that  teaches the necessary practices for working in an Agile environment. The  course covers multiple Agile development methods (Scrum, XP and Lean)  and is focused on practical application to make participants more  effective the moment they return to their desks. [...]]]></description>
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