Overview

Product development has a natural lifecycle. From concept to maturity, there is a progression and set of hurdles that must be passed. Different than “gates,” there are stages common to any initiative, business, team or project. Strategist Les McKeown calls these: Early Struggle, Fun, Whitewater, Predictable Success, Treadmill, The Big Rut and Death Rattle. Getting to the peak – Predictable Success – is the key to growth and market leadership. 

Today companies are struggling with the after-effects of a down economy. Many are collaborating with outside partners who are at a different phase altogether. Given these challenges, motivation declines and innovation is dampened.
What can you do to get your team back on track? How can you lead, inspire and provide the tools to support?

On Wednesday, August 4, 2010, Les McKeown will lead a special audiosession/webinar “Innovation Mojo: How to Get (and Keep) it Going” which will answer these questions and more.

Specifically, Les will tell you how to:

• Identify exactly where your product is in its lifecycle
• Restore equilibrium, re-ignite confidence, and move forward
• Adopt practices in the organization that bring sustained predictable success

This session promises to be an important and highly engaging one for anyone involved in product development, innovation, marketing, and technology – senior leadership and team attendance is encouraged; there is no additional fee for groups using one phone line.

Participants will each receive a complimentary copy (both hardcover and immediately downloadable e-book format) of Les' book "Predictable Success: Getting your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping it There."

Takeaways

• Access to slides used during the session via webinar technology
• Your questions answered live by Les McKeown during the session with follow up questions by email
• Summary set of slides available to participants after the session plus complimentary copy of Predictable Success book

Session Leaders

Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organizations worldwide. He is the author of Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization On the Growth Track--and Keeping It There.

Since relocating from his native Ireland to the US in 1998, Les advises CEOs and senior leaders of organizations on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth. His clients range from large family-owned businesses to Fortune 100 companies, and include Harvard University, American Express, T-Mobile, United Technologies, Pella Corporation, The US Army, Microsoft and the NSA.

Based in Marblehead MA, Les now spends his time consulting, writing, teaching, and speaking. Les has appeared on CNN, ABC, BBC, Inc, Entrepreneur magazine, USA Today and The New York Times.
 

What you will learn

Specifically, you will learn how to:

• Identify exactly where your product is in its lifecycle
• Restore equilibrium, re-ignite confidence, and move forward
• Adopt practices in the organization that bring sustained predictable success