It's been another great year of knowledge-sharing via webinars, and in 2016 we saw some smart and informative speakers shed light on some of the industry's toughest challenges. Explore the ready-to-watch recordings below of this year's webinars.
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Strategic Innovation Planning
Navigate the Future: Roadmapping that Works
Roadmapping is a highly undervalued methodology that helps companies to be more successful when launching new products.
Current research from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, one of Europe's leading institutions for applied research, shows that only 15% of companies surveyed use dedicated roadmapping software effectively to meet their Roadmapping and Strategic Planning needs.
Explore Fraunhofer IAO's recent research on Roadmapping as a strategic planning tool. See how leading companies remove uncertainty from their planning and get more value from their existing pipeline with living roadmaps. Watch On-Demand >
Roadmapping Works: Get Started
Worthwhile journeys require a roadmap. Your business strategy is no different.
The growing importance of aligning product and technology strategies with market needs has led to an increased interest in and use of Roadmapping methodologies and software to better capture, understand, and evaluate enterprise alignment and strategic direction.
Paul Heller, Sopheon CTO shares practical "how to" steps for getting started with Roadmapping at your organization and how software can help.
Idea and Concept Development
Turning Great Ideas into Great Products
Research indicates across industries that 79% of top managers say their company has too few high-value projects in their portfolio. Most companies don't lack ideas, but they do lack high-value ideas and the means to objectively prioritize and manage these ideas.
Arvo Lepasepp, Sopheon Pre-Sales Business Consultant, pulls back the curtain and showcases how best practice companies increase the number of high-value ideas that enter their portfolios using our five principles for effective idea development.
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Process and Project Management
Using Accolade to Manage Agile Software Development Processes
Research indicates across industries that 79% of top managers say their company has too few high-value projects in their portfolio. Most companies don't lack ideas, but they do lack high-value ideas and the means to objectively prioritize and manage these ideas.
Arvo Lepasepp, Sopheon Pre-Sales Business Consultant, highlights best practice Agile software and product development methodologies in the context of a broader portfolio of innovation initiatives.
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Jumpstart Your Way to World Class Portfolio and Project Management
Many organizations desire driving change into their product lines and market spaces through better execution and management of innovation. However, many are still struggling from previous efforts at establishing consistent processes and institutionalizing a mindset of innovation. Why is this so hard? Can evolving to a world-class Innovation process be made easier?
Start with a standard - a globally recognized innovation process standard where the major process designs come ready-made and strategies for collecting data, managing projects, and driving institution-wide reporting are standard. With Accolade Express for Process Management, customers can feel confident they're seeing the real value of an innovation management process without building it themselves.
Sopheon Global Services Business Leader Bob Bottelsen shows how companies can enable their success with a world-class PPM.
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Principles of Lean & Fast NPD
Mike Tennity, Managing Consultant for Stage-Gate International, and Iain King, Senior Innovation Consultant for Sopheon, explore the principles of lean and fast new product development (NPD) within your organization.
With today's rapidly evolving markets, flexibility and effectiveness of product development processes are crucial to cope with increasing pressure for faster time-to-market. Mike and Iain explore propelling beyond the traditionally-defined Stage-Gate process to improve the speed, agility, predictability and timeliness for lean NPD.
Part 1 - Above & Beyond PLM: The EIM Landscape
Delve into CIMdata's latest research report, “Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions - Connecting the Dots!” with Suna Polat, CIMdata Research Specialist, and Huub Rutten, Sopheon Co-Founder and VP of Research.
The webinar explores the research report, which clarifies the Enterprise Innovation Landscape by giving an overview of each player in the market today.
Part 2 - Above & Beyond PLM: EIM vs Other Enterprise Platforms – Where is the Value?
The second in our 3-part series, investigate the business purpose of an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) from traditional Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and ERP systems. Sopheon CEO Andy Michuda and VP or Research Huub Rutten clarify and differentiate the business purpose and value of Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) from traditional Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and ERP systems.
They investigate the business purpose of an EIM system and how it brings unique value to the corporate enterprise. They answer the question “Why do I need another enterprise system?” and explain why the annual operational planning process is broken, how to improve on the performance of your innovation initiatives, and how to select the key decision-makers inside and outside of your organization.
Part 3 - Above & Beyond PLM: The Journey towards Innovation Maturity
In the third and final webinar in the series, Huub Rutten, Sopheon VP of Research, comprehensively examines the transformations companies undergo to fully execute an enterprise-wide, mature, innovation management lifecycle.
He identifies the processes and methodology needed to instigate positive change across organizational silos, aligning business strategy, goals, and actions throughout an enterprise.
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