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Creating a Clear Line of Sight Through Inputs, Strategy and Execution
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Last week Line of Sight Group delivered a presentation to the local chapter of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) entitled, “The Intersection of Strategy and Product Development/Management.” The event was held at Padilla in Minneapolis and attended by 50 product management and strategy practitioners. Line of Sight Group Founder and President, Steve…
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Line of Sight’s Competitive Intelligence System Now SCIP Endorsed
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Line of Sight Group is proud to announce that our Market-i Competitive Intelligence System has been recognized as a SCIP “Endorsed” product! Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is the nonprofit Association representing the Integrated Intelligence industry internationally for over 32 years. What makes our system unique? Prior to launching Line of Sight Group…
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Bob and Jerry on Competing in Healthcare
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For the past several weeks, we have been busily reading the myriad articles and forecasts on Healthcare (HC) trends for 2017. There was even an article about all of the other articles. With trends like a dramatically changing regulatory environment, continued momentum in HC consumerism, advances moving big data and analytics into cognitive computing…
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How do election results change my company’s strategic, business, and product plan assumptions?
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Were your strategic, business, and product plan assumptions based on one candidate winning or did you have scenarios for either outcome? Did you have a scenario in which one party would control the Presidency, House of Representatives and the Senate? How dependent were your strategy decisions on U.S. trade policy, corporate and individual tax…
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OUR STRATEGY ISN’T WORKING
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Our strategy doesn’t seem to be working. What’s wrong? When company and business unit leaders or product and market managers share this question with me I answer with the following question: Is it your strategy, strategy execution or both? In most cases, they don’t know, so I take them down a path of a…
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External vs. Internal: The Difference between Strategy and Planning
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As we enter the first days of October here in Minnesota, the leaves are turning, football is back and our clients are diving deep into their strategic planning for 2017. When the concept of strategic planning arrived in the business world in the mid-1960’s, corporate leaders embraced it as “the one best way’ to…
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Disruptive Forces in Financial Services
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Competition in Financial Services has always been intense amongst industry rivals. Increasingly, firms find themselves competing with Financial Technology (FinTech) start-ups going after a selective slice of the market with a disruptive offer. Many FinTech firms have billion dollar valuations, are flush with cash, and are leveraging low cost, cloud-based delivery models. While incumbent…
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Top Five Digital Health Trends for 2016: Disruption Can be a Game Changer if a Business Can Predict it
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According to Accenture’s report, Top Five Digital Health Trends for 2016, “Disruption can be a game changer if a business can predict it.” Here are the trends they identify and break down: Intelligent Automation – big data, digital apps and devices handle the basics allowing people resources to focus on higher value tasks Liquid…
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The Challenge of Being Different
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In a past life, I held the position of a product manager for a company that was the leader in a substantial and mature industry. As a product manager, I learned many things: First I learned that the product manager role in any organization is extremely hard work and not for the faint of…
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Connecting the Dots at DEVICETALKS
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Last week, Line of Sight Group attended DEVICETALKS 2016 hosted by MassDevice. The one day event was held on Monday June 6th at the Science Museum of Minnesota and attended by 250 people. There were keynote panels from medical device leaders and break-out sessions focused on industry trends and product management topics. The main…