Online Webinar  – Recorded July 31st, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
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Donald G. Reinertsen was at Booz Allen Hamilton when he coined the term “Fuzzy Front End” in an article for PMI in the 1980’s.

He did so because he thought there was something going on up there at the beginning of New Product Development but it was fuzzy.

He was interviewed for an article a few years later. By then he had come to dislike the term, “Fuzzy Front End”. He felt that, after more study, there were a number of tools and processes in place (some for decades), that made the front end into a repeatable process.

That concept of Fuzzy Logic (sampling the environment, the market, technology, the competition, etc.) became the basic concept behind this important discovery stage and the basis for many popular branded processes like Hunting for Hunting Grounds™.

Never mind Reinertsen’s new thinking, the term “Fuzzy Front End” was catching on by the mid-90’s in the New Product Development community and perpetuated the myth of this stage as somewhat mystical.

This webinar with Kimberly Johnson (LinkedIn profile), & Christopher Miller (LinkedIn profile) will attempt to demystify the new product discovery.

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The Fast, Flexible & Fact Based Front End: Examining Discovery The Not So Fuzzy Front End Of Innovation

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 22 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

AI has drastically transformed industries such as healthcare, finance, transportation, and entertainment, leading to improved efficiency, accuracy, and convenience.

Generative AI (GenAI) will be the next wave of change washing over every industry, including technology and service providers (TSPs). GenAI will surely change everything, except some areas where it doesn’t change anything.

With any new hyped technology, there will be spurious spending by business leaders and special projects.

However, boards and CEOs are being cautious with their spending. CIOs are expected to create a long-term strategy, plan for, and implement GenAI within the scope of the IT budget.

Join this Gartner panel  which explores how and where GenAI is changing IT spending amounts, and how GenAI will change the IT services market.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore forecasts for IT spending growth in 2023 and beyond
• How and where GenAI is changing IT spending amounts and mixes
• Get new and emerging use cases for GenAI

Presenters:  

• John-David Lovelock, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst, Chief Forecaster
• Chrissy Healey  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst,
• Errol Rasit (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Managing Vice President
• Alys Woodward (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst

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IT Spending Forecast: The Impact Of GenAI

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 13th 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

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Take Your Customer Experience To The Next Level
with Customer Education

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Online Webinar  – Recorded July 25, 2017
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Bad projects abound, and research by Project Management Institute and others has provided useful insight into the underlying causes of bad projects.

In this webinar Michael looks beyond why projects go bad and explores why bad projects are so hard to kill.

Michael explains how sunk costs, groupthink, escalation of commitment, and conflicts of interest contribute to keeping death-march projects needlessly alive.

Each of these behaviors is defined and illustrated using project stories from history (the sinking of the Titanic and the Concorde jetliner), project stories from the presenter’s own personal experience climbing some of the world’s tallest mountains (Denali, Aconcagua, and Kilimanjaro), and project stories from business (Abilene Paradox and industry-funded soda studies).

Some recently published research about the neural science underlying these behaviors is referenced and the impact of these behaviors is described and then linked to the undercutting of ethics, trust, leadership, and project success.

Walk away with a list of actions that you can take to help avoid being victimized by bad projects.

Presenter: Michael O’Brochta (LinkedIn profile) ACP, PMP  MPM is the author of How To Get Executives To Act For Project Success: Building A Strong Mutual Partnership and has managed hundreds of projects as President of Zozer Inc where Michael helps organizations raise their level of project management performance. As senior project manager at the Central Intelligence Agency, he led the project management and systems engineering training and certification program to mature practices agency-wide.  Since Michael’s recent climb of another of the world’s seven summits, he has been exploring the relationship between project management and mountain climbing

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Why Bad Projects Are So Hard To Kill

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 30th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

During economic and social volatility, organizations achieve success through sustainable efficiency.

Organizations must determine how to make the best possible use of new technology developments that could cause significant disruption over the next three years, such as generative AI, and embrace the connected workforce nature while remaining resilient.

Join this webinar as Bart Willemsen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst; reveals the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 and how CIOs and IT leaders can use them to ensure future success.

Discussion Topics:

• Prioritize sustainable technology trends, aligning practical cybersecurity with business value
• Invest in technology that fits specialist workers and AI-powered software development.
• Incorporate machine customers, augmentation, and AI-powered intelligence in training and work

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Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends For 2024

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Online Webinar – Recorded  March 7th 2024
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Presenter: Tim Hagen (LinkedIn profile) Progress Coaching, has been helping organizations implement highly effective coaching for 20+ years.  Tim is the author of “Quit Managing and Start Coaching” and “Coaching…Corporate America’s #1 Weapon ” and the creator of  the Progress Coaching Training Methods.   A pioneer in the coaching movement, Tim continues to innovate and build solutions that drive and retain top talent.

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Coaching To Self-awareness For Better Learning

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