Live Webinar August 30th, 2021 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  HBR – Harvard Business Review

Many business leaders assume that customer data can provide a company an unbeatable competitive edge.

The more customers you have, the more data you gather. That data informs better products, attracting more customers, and ultimately marginalizing competitors.

However, it often doesn’t work this way. While new developments in machine learning and algorithms make data-enabled learning much more powerful than the customer insights of the past, they don’t assure defensible barriers.

But under the right conditions, customer data can help a company build competitive advantage.

Andrei Hagiu, (LinkedIn profile) an associate professor of information systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and an expert on business analytics and platform businesses—will lead a live, interactive HBR video webinar on leveraging data to create competitive advantage.

Hagiu will discuss:

• Building moats and creating competitive advantage with data-enabled learning
• How best to use customer data to add value
• The limits and drawbacks of relying on data-enabled learning, and the importance of regular network effects
• Why businesses should incorporate proprietary customer data in product design
• What the future looks like for customer data analysis

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When Data Creates A Competitive Advantage (& When it Doesn’t)

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 18 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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We have been endeavoring to automate project management quite literally from its very formation.

The earliest iterations of support for the techniques of PERT and CPM ran on mainframe computers using similar equations and logic to what we know and accept as project scheduling software today.

We have evolved and refined how we think about schedule, cost, resource effort and capacity. We attempt to quantify and model outcomes and benefits. The advent of collaborative solutions has rethought how we think about working and communicating in teams.

In this webinar Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management explores what is possible to automate, and also tries to help identify the limits of automation.

Mark considers whether there are aspects of project management that will wholly be supported by automation, those instances where it might provide decision support and also those dimensions of the role that are likely to stubbornly resist automation for some time to come.

If you are interested in the role that software and automation plays—and can play—in supporting project management, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.

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What We Can Automate… And What We Can’t

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Online Webinar  – Recorded July 29th 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Over 60% of daily tasks are about problems that have no clear answers. They are exceptions from routine tasks and they require different skill sets.

Unfortunately, traditional training and learning designs are limited to instructions and memorization of content. Instructions are useful when problems are specific and known. They are ineffective in problems that require more critical thinking.

Topics covered in the webinar:

• Why is critical thinking more important in today’s rapidly changing and technology-driven work environments?
• How is critical thinking different from instruction-type of training and learning?
• What are examples of tasks that require critical thinking?
• What are examples of basic and advanced critical thinking methods?
• How to add critical thinking in your lessons in eLearning, classroom, and webinars?
• How to add critical thinking in technical, compliance, software, and people skills lessons?
• How to capture the impacts of critical thinking by team members?

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10 Guaranteed Ways To Make Leadership Training Stick

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of  3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1) and  DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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Critical Thinking For The Modern Team Members

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Live Webinar August 27th, 2021, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Each new stage of business transformation creates new vulnerabilities and consequent risks, leading to the emergence of new security technologies and controls.

What is the new scenario security professionals face today?

What emerging technologies do you need to keep your enterprise safe?

In this webinar Alys Woodward (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director  & Ruggero Contu (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director  Analyst will help you track the latest developments in security to determine which technologies and controls are the right fit for your organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Plan for risks from external exposure of enterprise assets to sophisticated private and nation state-based threats
• Track the key emerging security technologies for 2021 and beyond
• Discover the benefits and challenges each emerging technology presents

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Track The Emerging Technologies In Security & Risk Management

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 5th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The rise in popularity of Agile methods during the last decade has been both a benefit and a challenge for project and portfolio management teams.

While Agile methods have proven to increase and accelerate value to organizations by delivering faster and better results when applied to the right projects and in the right way, many organizations still struggle to figure out what to do with these new approaches for managing projects.

When this happens, Agile methods can become an obstacle and hindrance to benefits realization.

By breaking down the methodologies into smaller components, Benoit will explore how the ingredients of traditional and Agile can be blended more easily, doing away with dogmatic approaches.

Learn:

• How Agile is different but also similar to traditional methods
• How Agile techniques can complement more traditional approaches
• What other companies are doing to improve how they manage work this way.

Presenter: Benoit De Grâce, (LinkedIn profile) Sr Trainer/Consultant Corporate Education Group (CEG), has 20 + years of experience delivering courses on project management, scope, leadership, communication and quality management. With a keen ability to synthesize business processes and adapt project management know-how to various corporate environments, Benoit  helps organizations define and streamline their business processes. Benoit has a passion for delivering more efficient projects through the improvement of business processes, project/portfolio management skills, disciplines, and efficient information technology tools.

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Fire & Ice! How Agile & Traditional Practices
Can Coexist & Complement Each Other

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Live Webinar August 26th, 2020 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

The trick to keeping high-level requirements high-level is recognizing that an information system has five fundamental capabilities.

This webinar discusses what those capability types are, and how they can be used to document HLRs that set the scene for either detailed requirements, or evaluating COTS solutions.

Similarities and differences between an HLR and an unrefined user story:

• How HLRs refine a project’s initial scope
• The five fundamental capabilities of an information system
• How to avoid detail-level requirements during HLR elicitation
• The critical difference between stakeholders and subject matter experts

Presenter: Dan Tasker (LinkedIn profile) Former proprietor of The UML Cafe,  retired after working and consulting in the IT industry for the past 48 years. He spent the first 10 years working as a developer (called ‘programmer’ back then) in the United States and Canada.  The remainder of his career was spent as a business analyst, in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He continues to be passionate about quality requirements and helping business analysts produce them.

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The Trick To Keeping High-Level Requirements High Level

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