Where: Sunnyvale Community Center Ballroom – 550 E. Remington Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Description:
To develop a new product, most companies do it the same way they did it in the past. New companies tend to bring the practices over from their old companies. Companies do this whether or not the previous product was successful.
Few have done much thinking about how to really increase product success. Until now.
David Fradin reveals, in this presentation, more than 20 innovative ideas to enhance the chances of product success.
He developed the ideas based upon his 48 plus years of experience including organizational/interpersonal behavior and in the writing of “Foundations in the Successful Management of Products” and “Building Insanely Great Products” books.
Takeaways
Participants experience:
• Learn 20+ innovative ideas
• Considerations for product success
About the Instructor:
David Fradin has trained thousands of managers throughout the world. He infuses his workshops with insights and experiences gained as a product leader at companies like Apple & HP. He is the author of “Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed…This is their Story”. Plus a series of planning workshops and online courses covering how to do market research right, innovation, design, value proposition, product market strategy, marketing plans, and social media marketing. They are available at https://wp.me/p39FDx-1GH
He was classically trained as an HP Product Manager and was then recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market. As a result of his leadership & management skills, Apple promoted him first to Apple’s Group Product Manager & later Business Unit Manager at the same organizational level at that time as Steve Jobs.
David Fradin has over 48 years of product management, product marketing management and senior management experience. Over the years, he has been responsible for 75+ products representing over $250M in revenue (actual dollars).
Meeting Leader: Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
PDU Info: Leadership: 1 PDU Strategy& Business Mgmt: 1
Program Agenda:
5:30 PM – Sign In and Networking
6:15 PM – Featured Speaker
8:30 PM – Meeting Adjourn
Food: Complimentary snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Full-time Student: $5 (online only; contact Meeting Leader for the discount code. Please bring a Student ID card to the event)
Veterans: Free (online only; contact Meeting Leader for the discount code. Please bring an appropriate ID card to the event)
At-the-Door Registration
A limited number of registrations can be accepted at the door on a first-come, first served basis. Once this limit has been reached, the event will be closed to additional attendees.
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $20
Non-Members: $30
(Only Check or Cash accepted; make checks payable to “PMI Silicon Valley”)
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant’s ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI – Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
Event Properties
| Event Date | 02-13-2019 |
| Event End Date | 02-13-2019 |
| Registration Start Date | 01-21-2019 |
| Cut off date | 02-11-2019 |
| Individual Price | Log in for member discount. |
| Location | Sunnyvale Community Center, Ballroom |
David Fradin
David Fradin has trained thousands of managers throughout the world in the successful management of products. With over 47 years of experience across major companies, 75+ products and services and 11 startups, he infuses his workshops with insights gained as an expert product leader, product manager and product marketing manager at companies like Apple and HP. He was classically trained as an HP Product Manager and was then recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market. As a result of his leadership and management skills, Apple promoted him first to Apple /// Group Product Manager and later Business Unit Manager at the same organizational level at that time as Steve Jobs. He recently authored “Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed…This is their Story” Lessons from 47 years of experience including Hewlett-Packard, Apple, 75 products, and 11 startups later. Go to: Amazon Store Coming soon will be "Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products" and "Marketing Insanely Great Products." His workshops cover the founding values, vision, product lifecycle and management employed by Apple at its start and which it subscribes to today. You can learn more about his workshops at Spice Catalyst Workshops Soon to be released by Wiley and Sons, in the Early of 2017, is a seven-volume set of university-level textbooks entitled: "Foundations in the Management of Successful Products" covering keys to product success, product market strategy, marketing, soft skills, user experience, user interface, product engineering, and product support. What students will learn in the workshops, online courses and books are cover what has made Apple the most valuable company in the world today. Go to David Fradin @ Youcanbook to schedule a time to talk.
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TESTIMONIALS
"I have done the marketing plan and got a great score from my working company. Thanks for your course and coaching."
Hsitang L
Student
"Very interesting course on the effective use of Social media in marketing. Must for all the Product Marketing managers. Simple & effective delivery of content. Thanks, Professor David."
Karthik S
Student
"Excellent Course for Marketing Strategy. It was comprehensive, easy to follow, and had the perfect balance of hands-on activities and lectures that left me with a full marketing strategy and implementation plan at the end of the course. Great course for anyone starting from scratch."
Spencer J.
Student
"David’s key Product Management and presentations skills were key to my success in starting up and building Apple Pacific in the early 80s."
Sami A
Client
"David continues to be a valued resource for general marketing expertise, industry knowledge, and product marketing know-how. We reference his clear insights regularly."
Peter M
Client
"David has been an excellent coach and mentor. Very detail oriented and practical in his approach. His ideas and frameworks are simple, practical and easy to understand and adopt, being extremely effective at the same time. The concept of ‘Do, value proposition’ is one such excellent framework which not only helps in formulating compelling value proposition for the customers but is also a source of ideas for new product innovation."
Manish B.
Student
"David is a very experienced and talented business professional. I have witnessed this first hand, as has demonstrated his ability across multiple disciplines, including market analysis, segmentation, customer profiling, competitive reviews, product management, marketing and sales strategy development and execution, to name but a few. In addition, he has great communication skills."
Mike B, Lead Generation Consultant
Client
"I met Dave through a consulting engagement while I was at YouSendIt. It was easily the single most useful and insightful consulting engagement I’ve experienced in my career. From his analysis of our industry to the product recommendations, Dave gave us actionable information that made YouSendIt a better company."
Chris B. (YouSendIt)
Client
"Building Insanely Great Products" is a great Segway into the product management space and contains insightful and practical advice which I am now going to validate with some of the projects I am working on"