Join us at the Minnesota Product Development and Management Association’s September meeting to understand “innovating at the speed of teams.” Concurrent Product Development (i.e. Concurrent Engineering) is a popular topic. One hears a lot about AGILE, SCRUM and other software that shortens time-to-market. Software and processes...
When we look back on the past few months of 2016, this time will certainly be remembered as the summer of Garden Blogger Events. For the last year, we have been creating two blogger get-togethers, one in Minnesota and the other in Oregon. Although they...
On a recent flight bound for Casablanca, Morocco, I read an interesting article in the MIT Sloan Management Review. The article focused on how small companies can level the playing field with much larger competitors using social media and Public Relations. I compare this to...
Some of you may have heard LinkedIn referred to as “Facebook for the Employed.” Maybe you’ve finally gained the courage to send out those LinkedIn “Connect” invitations, greet all the aliens, and auto-send LinkedIn update emails (seemingly one-million per day) straight to the trash. But, what...
Would you attend a networking event and not talk to anyone? Not even a hermit crab would do that. If someone said something that was wrong, you’d say something, right? Without a social media strategy, companies and brands allow others to take control of their messaging. The...
Last week on Tuesday, June 7, the MinneAnalytics organization hosted the annual Big Data Tech 2016 conference to study and share views on the rapid changes occurring in online data science. Rob wrote about the conference in a post a short while ago, and after studying my notes, here...
Leading up to the Brexit vote, there were many news articles talking about the various polls and surveys that were used to predict how U.K. residents would vote. One of the untold stories comes from Imperial College Business School and Professor Mark Kennedy. Mark has developed...
Everyone knows about the infamous C-suite, but there may be a new permanent resident joining the ranks of the CEO, CFO, CIO, CMO and CTO: the CDO. The Chief Data Officer first started appearing in Fortune 500 companies five to ten years ago, but in the...
Manufacturers Alliance is one of the best-kept secrets in Minnesota. For over 20 years, the alliance has provided local manufacturers with professional education, training, networking and resources to improve their companies, businesses and more. Their presentations on current topics go beyond manufacturing to include product development,...
The more we become involved in MinneAnalytics, the more we learn the power of big data, and most importantly the insight, training and networking offered by this local (and free!) organization. For those new to Minnesota or data analytics, MinneAnalytics is a nonprofit organization dedicated to...