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The Pragmatic Marketing conducts the world’s most popular product management training, with more than 70,000 seminar attendees from 6,000 companies in 23 countries. Product management certification from Pragmatic Marketing is the most recognized in the industry with 15,000 product managers and marketers earning the designation Pragmatic Marketing Certified. Indicative of the company’s worldwide success, Pragmatic Marketing has been recognized four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America.

Proficientz helps B2B product and service organizations grow revenue and profitability faster with a product portfolio management framework that eliminates product silos and helps companies deliver high-value solutions to their most lucrative markets to close the gap between corporate revenue and profitability goals and the management and marketing of their products. Because the new rules of engagement go way beyond market-driven products. They're about market-driven organizations offering a portfolio of integrated, high-impact solutions that are more valuable to the market than a collection of individual products!

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Strategyn, an innovation management consulting firm, has partnered with companies across the globe to solve their unique innovation challenges. We help companies create value for their customers, grow their top-line revenue, and put their innovation resources to their highest and best use. Strategyn has changed the historic 70-90 percent failure rate experienced by ideas-first innovation methods to an 80 percent success rate with its proven approach to innovation, Outcome-Driven Innovation®. Let us be your partner in innovation. You can learn more about innovation success at www.strategyn.com.

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The 280 Group (www.280group.com) is the world’s leading Product Management & Product Marketing services firm, and offers consulting, contractors, training, certification, books and templates. Since 1998 they have helped tens of thousands of customers throughout the world implement best practices and become more effective at bringing successful products to market. Offerings include the PM Fast Track™ intensive training course, Agile Excellence for Product Manager’s™ training course, the Product Management Office, Certified Product Manager and Agile Certified Product Manager self-study courses and the 280 Group book series: "Expert Product Management", "The Phenomenal Product Manager", "Agile Excellence for Product Managers" and "The Product Manager’s Toolkit Book." To download the 280 Group’s free white paper library, free templates, samples, product management survey and join the 280 LinkedIn group go to www.280group.com/signup.htm.

The Pragmatic Marketing Framework is the worldwide standard for product management in the technology industry. Since 1993, 5,000 companies in 23 countries have attended our training. More than 12,000 product managers and marketers are Pragmatic Marketing Certified, the world’s largest and most recognized product management certification. Our thought-leadership portfolio includes e-books, blogs, webinars, podcasts, The Pragmatic Marketer magazine and Tuned In, a #1 best-selling book on Amazon.com and CEO-READ.com. Our publications are read by more than 100,000 every year. Pragmatic Marketing has been recognized four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America (2000, 2007, 2008, 2009), the only product management company to ever receive this prestigious honor.

The Product Strategy Network (www.ProductStrategyNetwork.com) is the leading practitioner resource for product management organizations. The PSN operates on the belief that the collective-how of an experienced product management network can more effectively address your challenges than any one person or firm. Exclusively for practitioners, our members benefit from the tested strategies and proven practices of their peers; active-learning workshops, and unbiased guidance. Creators of PSN Symphony® - the world’s most popular strategic product roadmapping methodology and training, we’ve enabled many product management organizations to better lead and execute their company’s growth strategy.

ZIGZAG Marketing's Product Management Framework creates a market driven organization from the top down using the influence of product marketing and product management to align corporate goals to the market segments most conducive to meeting those goals. The result is a single set of prioritized initiatives across the entire product portfolio, sales, marketing and operations that collectively align the organization to its most lucrative markets. Our Product Management University Portfolio Management Workshop is an advanced skills program for organizations with multiple products targeting the same markets or product managers and marketers who’ve taken basic skills as far as they can go. Learn best practices for creating top-down market strategies that transcend the entire product portfolio and simplify execution of product release cycles, marketing programs and sales cycles by aligning all disciplines to the same priorities. www.zigzagmarketing.com

Strategyn, an innovation management consulting firm, has partnered with companies across the globe to solve their unique innovation challenges. We help companies create value for their customers, grow their top-line revenue, and put their innovation resources to their highest and best use. Strategyn has changed the historic 70-90 percent failure rate experienced by ideas-first innovation methods to an 80 percent success rate with its proven approach to innovation, Outcome-Driven Innovation®. Let us be your partner in innovation. You can learn more about innovation success at www.strategyn.com.

The Accept Corporation delivers The Product Innovation Management solution that technology-driven companies use to decide which products to bring to market for the fastest time-to-profit. For more information, visit www.accept360.com or call 866.423.8376.

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