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Tactical Planning: Creating a Tactical Plan for Your Business

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Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. Let’s dive a bit deeper into the subject and explain how it differs from other types of planning, its benefits and more. What Is Tactical Planning?

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Meeting Planning Steps: How to Plan a Meeting

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To remove the stigma attached to meetings, learn meeting planning. What Is Meeting Planning? Meeting planning sets the agenda for the meeting. ProjectManager turns meeting notes into actionable project plans. Why Is Meeting Planning Important? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to plan a productive meeting.

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Planned Obsolescence: An Unsustainable Business Model

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Planned Obsolescence involves designing products to quickly break or become obsolete in the short to mid-term, with the general goal of encouraging sales of new products and upgrades. Let’s start by defining some terms. This business model thrives on consumer dissatisfaction and the constant need for newer, shinier products.

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Free Strategic Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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This is the start of strategic planning. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. Why Should You Use Strategic Planning Templates? Using premade strategic planning templates is also helpful because there’s no busy work involved.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Strategic planning ensures successful outcomes. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Why Use Project Planning Templates? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Workforce Planning Basics for Businesses and PMOs

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One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Workforce planning is important and we’ll show you why. Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. What Is Workforce Planning?

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Alternatives to PPM Tools for Today's Anywhere Workforce

The right project portfolio management tools should have all the features necessary to plan and execute in one place, giving PMOs the visibility they need to ensure project success. This means moving beyond what most basic PPM tools offer to a tool that better fits their needs and sets them up for long-term success.

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Rapid Product Research During Uncertain Times

Speaker: Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach, H2R Product Science

Plan and conduct compassionate interviews during difficult times. Join Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach at H2R Product Science, as she shares her knowledge from years of experience teaching product managers and researchers on how to make evidence-based product decisions with rapid research.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Access the Definitive Guide for a one-stop-shop for planning your application’s future in data.

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Leading Under Uncertainty

Speaker: Greg Coticchia, CEO & Founder of ENTRA

How can you plan when you are uncertain of what's next? Organizations of all types and sizes are facing common challenges of how to deal with the uncertainty in our current professional and personal lives. On a product level, how can you be sure of delivering the ‘right’ messaging, products, solutions, and services to customers?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Plan for Product Launch Success with Data and Analytics

Speaker: Piyanka Jain, President and CEO, Aryng

You’ll learn: How to plan a launch to reach your own goals. What to do when a launch doesn’t go as planned. You'll come away with practical techniques to ensure that every future launch adds value to your product and your organization. Essential skills to analyze your launches. June 11, 2019 12:30 PM PDT, 3:30 PM EDT, 8:30 PM BST.

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From Planning to Results, How to Choose a Tool to Manage Marketing Projects

With increased channels, tools, and pressure to achieve goals, your work management platform must be able to: Manage complex projects within tight time frames. Harness data from all channels to make decisions in real time. Prove ROI to the broader business. Download the eBook today!

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Many of us are accustomed to planning for either discovery or delivery. We know how to plan for where we want to be for a product (delivery). And, we know how to plan to discover a market (discovery). Right now in 2020, those plans might not be worth anything. How to see and optimize for different planning cycles.