October, 2017

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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3 Ways to Apply Lean Product Management Right Away

280 Group

280 Group CEO and Founder, Brian Lawley, is once again joined by the prominent author, consultant and trainer, Greg Cohen. Greg works for 280 Group and has authored best-selling books such as Agile Excellence for Product Managers, Lean Product Management, and Strategy Excellence for Product Managers. Today Greg will share three ways that Product Managers can apply Lean methodologies in their day to day work.

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Utilizing UX and SEO for Better Marketing Results

Userzoom

How to employ UX and SEO for better marketing results. The concept of encouraging customers to buy a product or service remains the same from the days before the internet, but marketing today now relies heavily on digital platforms. Advertisers and marketers have had to adjust to a whole new world of acronyms and procedures. Let’s take a look at two of them and how you can use them for better marketing results: UX and SEO.

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What’s it Like Being an Agile Coach?

Agile Coach

I’ve been pouring through old posts for another purpose, and stumbled across a diary I wrote 8 years ago while working as an Agile Coach in a large organization. As I read through the posts, I realized that the experience I had at this organization shaped my coaching style, and is more-or-less the reason why I wrote Lean Change Management once I realized ‘Agile’ had very little to do with Agile.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Five Tips for Leveraging Empathy in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Why Empathy Matters. Possibly the most profound challenge in product management is to understand the needs of users and customers. Without developing the right understanding, our chances of creating a successful product are slim. While there are numerous techniques available to uncover user needs—think of direct observation, problem interviews, focus groups, surveys, and MVPs, to name just a few—none of them is truly useful, if we do not empathise with the people that will use our product, if we

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What’s the Right BI Tool for Manufacturing?

ElegantJ BI

Is There a Simple BI for Manufacturing Solution for Business Users? Manufacturing has certainly changed over the past few decades! Global competition is greater today and local or regional manufacturers can no longer hope to achieve a competitive advantage based on location and geography alone. Products, pricing, process, quality and features drive the market and consumers are willing to purchase products from competitors to get more favorable pricing or a better, more suitable product.

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Product Manager Nightmares and Horror Stories

280 Group

Happy Halloween They may not have a catchy theme song like the Ghost Busters, but Product Managers are no strangers to scary situations. To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, Brian Lawley and Pamela Schure share a lighthearted recount of some memorable Product Manager nightmares and horror stories from their decades of experience. The Horrible Non-working Product I accepted a job working on an incredibly innovative new product and was very excited.

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How to prepare your Think-Out-Loud Study in UserZoom

Userzoom

Helpful tips to start collecting think out loud feedback from participants. So you’ve decided that you’re going to collect think out loud feedback from your participants on your next UserZoom study. Exciting! There are few things as powerful as verbatim feedback from a participant as they experience your site or product. If you haven’t created a think out loud study yet with Userzoom, or you just need a quick refresher, we’re here to help!

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Requirements – What’s the problem?

Capiro

Problems and solutions. The definition of requirements in terms of solving problems and satisfying objectives, originally specified by the IEEE, is now widely used. It is referenced by both the IIBA and the BCS international Diploma in Business Analysis. It is the definition that we often refer to at Capiro. In this article for the IREB Requirements Engineering newsletter.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Blog: AgilePM: The World’s Most Popular Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management

IAG Consulting

According to APMG International, the leading global accreditation and examination institute, AgilePM® has become the world’s leading framework and certification for agile project management. As of 2017, over 52,000 exams have been taken globally since its introduction only six years ago in 2011. Most prevalent in the UK, where it was originated, it is also widespread in over 40 countries including Australia, France, Netherlands, Poland, and South Africa.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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What’s the Right BI Tool for Manufacturing?

ElegantJ BI

Is There a Simple BI for Manufacturing Solution for Business Users? Manufacturing has certainly changed over the past few decades! Global competition is greater today and local or regional manufacturers can no longer hope to achieve a competitive advantage based on location and geography alone. Products, pricing, process, quality and features drive the market and consumers are willing to purchase products from competitors to get more favorable pricing or a better, more suitable product.

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What’s the Right BI Tool for Manufacturing?

ElegantJ BI

Is There a Simple BI for Manufacturing Solution for Business Users? Manufacturing has certainly changed over the past few decades! Global competition is greater today and local or regional manufacturers can no longer hope to achieve a competitive advantage based on location and geography alone. Products, pricing, process, quality and features drive the market and consumers are willing to purchase products from competitors to get more favorable pricing or a better, more suitable product.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Issues Faced at the End of the Product Lifecycle

280 Group

280 Group’s Director of Products and Services, Pamela Schure is here to talk with Consultant and Trainer JF Ouellette about the end of the Product Lifecycle. Specifically, Pamela and JF will discuss a few issues that are faced when a Product Manager has to End of Life a product. End of Life is a stage of the Product Lifecycle that is not very exciting and often times does not get the attention it deserves but is important nonetheless.

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Help Salespeople Tell the Story of Your Product

280 Group

In this video Brian Lawley, CEO and Founder of 280 Group, will talk with Tom Evans, a Senior Product Management Consultant and Trainer. Today Tom will explain how as a Product Manager, you can really help Salespeople tell the story of your product. Watch The Video One of the challenges Tom sees when Salespeople try to learn about the products or learn to tell the story about the products, is that there’s too much focus on the features of the.

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Communication skills get you talked about

Capiro

Communication and interpersonal skills are the secret sauce of the most successful business analysts and business architects. And the further these professionals go in their careers, the more important these ‘soft skills’ become. We have included two articles by the same author on communication skills. The first covers interpersonal skills in general and provides a ‘top 10’ list of relevant communication skills.

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3 Strategies to Pitch Product Management Ideas

280 Group

For this video, 280 Group CEO and Founder, Brian Lawley, talks with Bill Haines, who is not only a Product Management Consultant and Trainer, but an expert in positioning, messaging, and influencing people. Bill is asked to describe the tree types of audiences a Product Manager might be pitching to and what the strategy might be for each one of those people to make sure that they have the highest likelihood of accepting your ideas and going along with you.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.

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ElegantJ BI Included in Gartner ‘Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms’, September 2017

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI , an innovative vendor in Business Intelligence and Augmented Analytics, is pleased to announce that ElegantJ BI is named as Representative Vendors in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report published September 28, 2017. CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We are gratified to once again our Business Intelligence tool is included in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report.

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ElegantJ BI Included in Gartner ‘Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms’, September 2017

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI , an innovative vendor in Business Intelligence and Augmented Analytics, is pleased to announce that ElegantJ BI is named as Representative Vendors in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report published September 28, 2017. CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We are gratified to once again our Business Intelligence tool is included in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report.

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ElegantJ BI Included in Gartner ‘Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms’, September 2017

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI , an innovative vendor in Business Intelligence and Augmented Analytics, is pleased to announce that ElegantJ BI is named as Representative Vendors in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report published September 28, 2017. CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We are gratified to once again our Business Intelligence tool is included in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report.