Understanding Your Customers is Key to Driving Value and Innovation

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Topic:  Understanding Your Customers is Key to Driving Value and Innovation

Have you ever missed a customer need—one that is not fulfilled by any product that is now on the market? The identification of customer needs in context requires a deep understanding of a customer’s experience. Today it seems the only sustainable competitive advantage is for you to know your customers better than your competition.

Successful organizations have a proven effective process in place to obtain and utilize Voice Of the Customer (VOC) to identify new opportunities, grow substantial and sustainable new revenue and improve margins. Eliciting the Voice of the Customer is an extremely important part of the new product development process. It forms a check pointed basis for design and marketing decisions from concept development through product launch. The key to creating an effective VOC program is to gather and use information in an effective way that helps you systematically ensure improvements.

This webinar will describe a proven Voice of the Customer (VOC) process that demonstrates important business benefits. It provides a detailed understanding of the customer’s requirements, a common language for the organization going forward in the product and/or service development process, and a highly useful springboard for highly valued innovation. Described through a case study, is a 2-stage, 8-step process that includes voice of customer, innovation and execution.

Click Here to Register to Receive a Meeting Link  You must register by 3/3 to attend!  The meeting link will be sent out the evening of 3/1 to all registrants, with a reminder sent the day of the event.  If you have not received the link by the morning of 3/2, check your spam and promotion folders.  If it is not there, send an email to paul.dittmann@aitpchicago.com and he will email you the link.

Co-Presenter:  Scott Stribrny, President, Co-founder, and Managing Director of Group Atlantic, Inc.

Scott Stribrny brings nearly 40-years of experience in software, systems, and management to his client engagements and his Loyola Executive Education courses. An internationally acknowledged authority in project management, information systems/technology, systems engineering, and lean development and management, Scott is interested in the intersections of business, technology, and organizational risks.

Beginning a corporate career with a start-up firm that went from zero to 100 million dollars in just five years, Scott moved on to a Fortune 50 conglomerate where he worked with industry leading engineers, scientists, and the executive suite. Scott ascended to management and was responsible for the development of groundbreaking products and services where he applied best practices in project management. His accumulated management experience ranges across many industries, including aerospace, telecommunications, finance, insurance, retail, information services, and manufacturing.

Scott is president, co-founder, and managing director of Group Atlantic, Inc.; a senior consultant in the business technologies strategies practice for IT research company the Cutter Consortium; and a thought leader at the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. His courses on leadership development, high-performance teams, requirements definition, risk management, and project estimating are well known for their innovation and practical applicability.

Scott is widely published on the subjects of risk management and project/program management and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and company events. He is known for his practical knowledge and content, and refreshing and engaging delivery.

Co-Presenter:  Brendan Doorhy

Brendan Doorhy has worked as an engineer, product manager, program manager, business development manager and the director of a $60M business.  He has worked in the automotive, engineering consulting and IT industries.  He brought innovation to every role he held evidenced by this 30 US patents.

As a leader within a $1B OEM, Brendan led teams that developed products and solutions that contribute more than $100M of annual revenue. He led the Intelligent Management Systems business unit. This $60M business comprised 100 engineers, product managers, program managers and business development managers in 3 continents. He developed a software center of excellence in the US and a hardware center of excellence within EMEA. Also, within this role, Brendan contributed to the business case, due diligence and integration of the company's first ever acquisitions.

As a strategic growth program leader, Brendan developed a new growth business targeting a new customer segment of IT system integrators. This was accomplished using an eight-step market driven growth methodology. This process included value proposition hypothesis, target segment interviews/discovery, business case development and execution. This resulted in a new business initiative that generated a high margin $20M growth revenue in year three.

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