Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

Innovation  consultant Mike Dalton makes a bold claim:
50% or more of your new product innovation capacity is
Hiding In Plain Sight.

That’s right – even in the best of companies, half of new product resources (Marketing, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing Scale-Up and Sales) end up as waste.

In this highly interactive and engaging session, you will experience some of the root causes for this waste as well as learn steps you can begin taking to double new product throughput with your existing resources.

Key Takeaways from this session:

• A real life understanding of the root causes for innovation taking longer than it needs to and delivering less than you want including:
• Why new products finish late and under-deliver
• How to build plans your team can execute on-time
• An approach to visualize real status of new product projects
• How to manage priorities in a multi-project environment
• A set of tools and principles you can use to address these core problems
• A blueprint for doubling speed to market and new product profits without added costs or resources

Target audience:
The presentation is focused on the executives leading growth & innovation efforts for their corporations and the senior innovation drivers they depend on to get new products to market (Technical Directors, Engineering Directors, Directors of Product Management, Senior Product Managers, and other technical managers)

Presenter: Mike Dalton (LinkedIn profile) has over 24 years of product development, marketing and executive leadership at the multi-billion dollar SC Johnson family of companies. Mike is also the founder of Guided Innovation Group, whose simple mission is helping companies turn their new product innovation into bottom-line impact. Mike  holds an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago and a degree in chemical engineering and energy technology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He speaks on innovation and growth for trade and executive groups.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for Simplifying Innovation: Framework For Finding Hidden Innovation Capacity

Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile and wearable computing activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behavior in the digital world.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, redeeming coupons or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Compounding this data generation is the imminent adoption and usage of different kinds of wearable computing devices.

Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to deeper explanatory and predictive models in the realm of customer analytics.

Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps and advertising on mobile devices and their integration with wearable computing devices, in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues for firms.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the “mobile shopper” using tools from business analytics that combine statistical and econometric modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”.

3 learning points:

1. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices
2. Understanding how consumers respond to geo targeting and geo fencing strategies using smart phone technologies.
3. Exploring the implications of wearable computing devices on marketing.

This webinar will cover several projects that Anindya has undertaken in multiple countries in Asia and Europe as well as discuss the state of the art knowledge in this space.

Presenter: Anindya Ghose

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for IIBA: Mobile and Wearable Computing: Using Data Analytics to Understand the Mobile Shopper

Live Webinar – Aug 18th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Regardless of industry, thousands of technology investments are made every day. Get a glimpse into how you can use a business blueprint to organize your enterprise and to make the right technology decisions.

Get a cursory view of the benefits, such as; navigating through the complexity of information, visibly exposing opportunities for improvement and ensuring a common understanding for quick decisions. Improve the way you capture, validate and communicate various stakeholder views by understanding what is out in the industry to help you in this effort.

What you will get out of this webinar:

• Importance of having a business blueprint
• Ways to classify the information through the use of frameworks and methods
• Key tools for communicating the information (models and notations)
• Example use of automated tools to capture the information.

Presenter: Gina Schwalm (LinkedIn profile), PMP, CBAP,  has also been in various other roles throughout her career; requirements workshop facilitator, release coordinator, project sponsor, PMO manager, quality assurance manager, and methodology expert as well as the PM & BA roles she is certified for.  Recently, Gina has worked to build a competency center for project managers and business analysts.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for The Business Blueprint: Organizing your Chaos

Online Webinar – Recorded August 19th, 2014
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

The digital skills gap is hardly news to American workers!

Of the more than 200 million adults in the US digital workforce, only one in 10 consider themselves very proficient with the digital tools they use every day.

As companies move quickly to adopt new cloud-based platforms, such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, and Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as new types of tools for marketing, analytics, communications, and more, employees and managers are hard-pressed to fit digital skills training into jam-packed schedules and tight budgets.

Meanwhile, a recent study by Deloitte found that the rapid pace of technological change in the workplace is leading to a skills half-life of just 2.5 years.

Even the most adept employee can quickly fall behind.

Workers, businesses, and the entire economy are paying the price. Every year, the digital skills gap drives a loss of nearly $1 trillion for the US economy. For a firm with 1,000 employees, this translates to a $10 million loss each year on a compensation basis alone.

We need not stand idly by as our organizations bleed productivity. By laying out the 8 core competencies of digital skills, this webinar provides an action plan for addressing the digital skills gap in your team.

Speakers:  Alex Khurgin (LinkedIn profile) is the Creative Director at Grovo, a cloud-based training platform that identifies digital skills gaps within an organization, and provides development plans to close those gaps with highly engaging, 60-second videos.  Alex works with the Product and Content teams to help implement Grovo’s learner-first training method, which combines elements of holistic learning, competency-based learning, and microlearning to drive quick, meaningful, and lasting performance improvements.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for How the Digital Skills Gap is Killing Your Team’s Productivity: And What You Can Do About It