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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

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Project managers will cite the PMBOKā€™s Risk Management process as a core part of their discipline. 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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Embracing Agile: A Developer's Journey from Tradition to Innovation

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It was a gradual process, beginning with my foray into DevOps. It was about simplifying processes, reducing bureaucracy, and focusing on what genuinely adds value. Practical, Outcome-Based Assignments : Assignments are designed to encourage application and innovation, catering to diverse skills.

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Service Design: Process, Tools and Techniques

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This requires first understanding what service design is and how the process works. It’s a collaborative process that aims to improve and innovate service offerings by understanding customers’ needs, expectations and pain points and aligning them with the capabilities and goals of the organization providing the service.

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Is Your Leadership Ready to Pivot from Intuition to Innovation?

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In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficialā€”it's essential. Evidence-Based Management: The Game Changer EBM harnesses the power of data, research, and factual evidence to guide decision-making processes.

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Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

Lauraā€”principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startupsā€”has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes. Join UX designer and product management expert Laura Klein for a no-holds-barred Ask Me Anything session on UX design.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

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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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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

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What Is Innovation Innovation refers to creating, developing, and implementing new ideas, products, services, or methods that bring something different and more effective into use. Innovation is necessary to adapt effectively; it enables us to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The only constant thing is change.

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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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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 engineersā€™ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process.

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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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The Innovative PM: Cultivating Creativity in the Evolving Hybrid Workspace

Speaker: Rachel Rai Henry, Founder of the Creative Flow School

As the workforce environment shifts, PMs will be asked to reimagine the ways in which people, processes, platforms, and policy interact. Weā€™ll explore: The intersection of creativity and technology in hybrid workspace innovation. Creativity is the most desired soft skill in today's workforce. But what is its role in Project Management?

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Innovating and Driving Agility with Tech: No-Code Development

Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy

A roadmap to business excellence by understanding the importance of harnessing data, and automating processes. How to recognize emerging trends in tech today and leverage them to stay agile for a holistic business strategy. Keys to achieve the level of growth, cost optimization, and agility you want for your business.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

As an attendee, you will: Discover how construction professionals have deployed digital technologies to manage the risks created by skilled worker shortages, supply chain issues, and other critical challenges 🌐 Gain insight from experts who have successfully created digital workflows and have seen process and business benefits emerge from their (..)

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. All the steps involved in the change process to be successfully agile. How can conventional organizations succeed in this transformation?

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Unlock The Blueprint: How To Construct A Better Payment Workflow

Speaker: Timothy Allsopp

With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.