Solutions Thinking for Product Managers

nuCognitivewas founded in 2016 with the mission of helping companies build successful ventures and great teams worldwide. We do this by bringing together a talented group of industry-recognized experts - coaches and consultants who have real-world experience in building successful organizations. The people of nuCognitive have each contributed to large-scale transformations with companies larger than 100K in size. Our practical experience with the adoption and use of Agile, Lean, system engineering, complex adaptive systems, leadership practices, entrepreneurship, and other development methods enable us to provide help from start to finish as you transform and improve your company.

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Product managers and product teams face unprecedented challenges as business environments and product ecosystems become increasingly complex and unpredictable.
Customers have tremendous freedom to choose among competing products, and user experience has become a big factor in many purchase decisions. Time-to-market pressure is unrelenting, while product complexity and technical challenges keep increasing. In this environment, businesses must offer solutions that solve the right problem for the right consumer at the right time and the right price.
Solutions Thinking offers a fresh look at how to develop holistic solutions for customer problems. Solutions Thinking helps teams balance business, usage, and technology to create a compelling and sustainable set of products and services to meet the customer’s current and future needs. Solutions Thinking helps teams go from opportunities to solutions using a value-driven approach, and works with traditional, Agile, and hybrid development life cycles.
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Many teams just focus on making products when they should be thinking about developing solutions. Solutions Thinking blends a unique collection of proven industry models into a coherent methodology for solution development. The approach is specifically designed to work in complex environments.
NOTE: This is a free, one-hour introduction to Solutions Thinking, which is typically a day-long workshop. We will not have time to cover topics in depth. After an overview of the topics, there will be time for a deeper dive into one additional module based on participant preferences.
Other Training Options:
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<LI>There is an alternate session for this introduction to <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agile-leadership-workshop-tickets-30746262900" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Solutions Thinking on Thursday, February 16th</A></LI>
<LI>If you would like to participate in the full day-long workshop on February 21st, please <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solutions-thinking-for-product-managers-tickets-30741063348" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">make a reservation here</A>. (30% off for registering early)</LI>
<LI>Some participants may also be interested in an <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solutions-thinking-for-product-managers-tickets-30736283050" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Introduction to Agile Leadership Workshop</A> on January 24th at the same venue. </LI>
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Who typically attends?
Product managers, Product owners, product planners, product marketing, architects, designers, product engineers, and others working on holistic solution discovery, definition, design, and delivery.
Who is speaking?
Erik Simmons
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Erik has extensive experience in SW & systems eng in both public & private sector in high technology, healthcare, manufacturing, apparel, travel & event management, contract management, and other areas. Erik is internationally recognized for his expertise in requirements eng, lifecycles, Agile, solutions thinking, & complex adaptive systems eng. He is a respected trainer and mentor.
BA, Applied Mathematics. MS, Mathematical Modeling, Humboldt State University
Daniel Walsh
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Dan has expertise in accelerating product development and driving culture change. Experienced leader of org transformations across many functional areas including HW, SW, product validation, mfg, supply chain, marketing, and startups. Industry recognized for Lean Startup, org transformations, complex adaptive systems.
BS and Masters, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M
MS, Systems Engineering. MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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