There is a discipline in developing new opportunities into real products, services or solutions that can help your company succeed. Your team members must understand their role and the roles of others in order to successfully develop and launch a new idea. Your executives must understand the fundamentals of a scalable and sustainable product company to make the best possible decisions. All team members must communicate using a common language and understanding, in order to maximize efficiency. OP-timize(Edu)SM workshops and seminars address the educational needs of your team to improve the way you work together to realize new opportunities. We have offerings that address the needs of both practitioners and executives. Workshops and seminars are taught by Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) certified New Product Development Professionals (NPDPs). Together they cover a wide range of topics that are valuable in developing all kinds of new opportunities. Topics include:

  • Strategy and Vision - Provides methods for transition from corporate or organizational strategy and vision through product strategy.
  • Innovation - Provides tools and techniques to develop new ideas and concepts.
  • Product Portfolio Management - Provides tools and processes to ensure that you have a diversified portfolio of products that is aligned with your corporate strategy.
  • Product Development Process - Teaches concepts of popular, practical processes to develop, launch, and maintain new products and services.
  • Market Research/Voice of Customer - Describes different tools to interact with markets and customers, when they are appropriate, how to use them and what to results to expect from different types of tools.
  • Organization - Describes different types of product team organizations and shows how the results differ depending upon leadership, structure, culture, and level of empowerment.
  • Measuring Success - Provides a framework to measure success and select measurements that will meet the needs of a specific new product strategy.

All of our training products are offered as either a seminar or a workshop.

  • Seminars provide specified areas of study along with standardized individual and group exercises.
  • Workshops include an upfront mini-assessment where Opus Plus works with management to understand current capabilities and needs of the business. We then tailor more extensive interactive exercises that address real needs of your business. With our workshops, you begin to develop real solutions that help you start seeing results immediately.

Current course offerings:

  • A Business Framework For Software Product Success - A two-day seminar or a three-day workshop designed to increase team efficiency by providing executives and/or cross-functional team members with an in-depth knowledge of common practices, processes, methodologies and tools used to develop new products and services for the marketplace.. [PDF Course Description]
  • Executive Decision Making for Improved Software Product Success - A half-day seminar or a one-day workshop for members of the executive team who want to improve decision making by better understanding how to improve the success of new products. [PDF Course Description]
  • A Framework for Building a Sustainable and Scalable Software Product Company - A one-day seminar or a two-day workshop for members of the founding team of a start-up or early stage company who want to learn how to build a sustainable product company. [PDF Course Description]