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	<description>Optimizing the Business of Software Product Development</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Welcome to Opus Plus&#8217;s Blog on Collaboration, Innovation and Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog! I&#8217;m excited by the opportunity to share my passion for collaborative innovation with you. Experience has taught me that when you bring people together to solve problems, be they internal or external customers, innovation happens and transformation is possible.  Furthermore, involving people in this process from the beginning helps promote advocacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating During a Downturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Strategy</category>
	<category>Innovation</category>
	<category>Process</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2001-2003 economic down-turn I saw companies slash all aspects of their business and replace them with sales resources. These &#8220;feet on the street&#8221; had two problems. First, people were hunkered down and not buying, much like today. Second, they didn’t have innovative new products to sell that met a relevant need in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you trying to accomplish?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Innovation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What are you trying to accomplish?’  A simple but powerful question that can spawn innovative thinking.  In May of 2008 an article appeared in Harvard Business Review called &#8220;The Customer Centered Innovation Map&#8221; by Lance A. Bettencourt and Anthony W. Ulwick.   I’m often too busy to read my HBRs; I tend to go back through them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Job Mapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Innovation</category>
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>Tools</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here are some additional thoughts on the article from the HBR article from May 2008 called &#8220;The Customer Centered Innovation Map&#8221; by Lance A. Bettencourt and Anthony W. Ulwick.
One of the key points to the article was that all jobs consist of the same set of eight phases which are as follows:

Define goals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How is Software Product Portfolio Management Different?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Process</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I want to do in this blog is to explore some of the fundamental differences of classic product development and the development of software and IT products.  I think developing software products is very different, but I also think our industry could learn a lot from the lessons of new product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want a great Product Manager? Ask for the right certification!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Process</category>
	<category>Execution</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a colleague the other day who is an accomplished product manager and is currently in search of a new opportunity.  We were discussing a job description that I had recently shared with her from a list I follow.  
She noted that the description started out well, stressing strategic vision, problem solving, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity = Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Innovation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I was delivering an on-site workshop for a client.  The company President had joined us for a particular topic and from the back of the room he just started laughing out loud.  I sprinkle my favorite quotes about innovation throughout my workshop content and he had come across this one:
Opportunity is missed by most people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Prepared to Offer Solutions When Things Aren’t Going Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the long break.  I’ve been very busy teaching New Product Development to University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business MBA students. I thought teaching would give me great ideas for my blog, and it did.  It’s also a lot of work, especially if you’re also working full time for clients, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Innovation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Innovation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is more than just a creative idea.  Innovation is the process of introducing new ideas and solutions.  According to Webster’s, to innovate means &#8220;to introduce new methods, devices, etc.&#8221;  The PDMA defines innovation as follows:
Innovation: A new Idea, method, or device; the act of creating a new product or process.  The act includes invention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Innovation? (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgilmer</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Innovation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people think innovation begins with an idea. That may be true in entrepreneurial ventures, but in established companies, innovation should start with a strategy.
Entrepreneurs wake up one day and have what Michael Gerber so affectionately refers to as an “entrepreneurial seizure” in The E-Myth Revisited. By this he means that they have [...]]]></description>
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