<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026</id><updated>2012-02-16T14:00:33.592Z</updated><category term='Going for Growth Seeks Female Entrepreneurs'/><category term='Irish Software Association'/><category term='Product Managment TechBrew event'/><title type='text'>Product Innovator Ltd</title><subtitle type='html'>Product Innovator provides training, coaching and services in product innovation management to the technology sector</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026.post-6167044289268874211</id><published>2011-03-19T15:12:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-03-19T22:41:16.307Z</updated><title type='text'>What's Your Position?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IFOg-VphQ58/TYS_3mX0S_I/AAAAAAAAABc/4KNgDAAv1Wo/s1600/Coliseum_Rome_istockphoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IFOg-VphQ58/TYS_3mX0S_I/AAAAAAAAABc/4KNgDAAv1Wo/s320/Coliseum_Rome_istockphoto.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Rome wasn't built in a day, and sometimes, for business owners,&amp;nbsp;building and sustaining their business is like running in a marathon that never ends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to keep on track?&amp;nbsp; How to maximise opportunities?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Key for every business is to have a&amp;nbsp;very clear view of who the customer is, and what the value proposition is for their product or service.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly articulated, it's&amp;nbsp;one way to ensure that you're using the most of&amp;nbsp;your resources to maximise your impact in the market, and to&amp;nbsp;shorten your sales cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elevator pitches are a great marketing tool to help you articulate your value proposition.&amp;nbsp; Try scripting yours today, and to give you a helping hand&amp;nbsp;we've got a template you can get started with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.productinnovator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Elevator_Pitch.pdf"&gt;http://www.productinnovator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Elevator_Pitch.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5633026-6167044289268874211?l=productinnovator.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.productinnovator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Elevator-Pitch.pdf' title='What&apos;s Your Position?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/6167044289268874211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/6167044289268874211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-your-position.html' title='What&apos;s Your Position?'/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IFOg-VphQ58/TYS_3mX0S_I/AAAAAAAAABc/4KNgDAAv1Wo/s72-c/Coliseum_Rome_istockphoto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026.post-8778167710240044476</id><published>2011-01-05T13:54:00.004Z</published><updated>2011-03-19T22:43:36.197Z</updated><title type='text'>Dublin City Female Entrepreneur of the Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TSR24FpjQbI/AAAAAAAAABU/BnU7v0OJ-gU/s1600/Agata_cyclorama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; height: 197px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 211px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TSR24FpjQbI/AAAAAAAAABU/BnU7v0OJ-gU/s320/Agata_cyclorama.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Congratulations to Agata Stoinska, the recent winner of the Dublin City Female Entrepreneur of the Year award.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Agata, a photographer and qualified architect from Poland, launched d-Light Studios in 2009, a unique and eye-catching studio space&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;which can be used for professional photography, film and television production, exhibition space, product launches and events:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://d-lightstudios.com/"&gt;http://d-lightstudios.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Check out some of Agata’s amazing photographs here:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.stoinska.com/"&gt;http://www.stoinska.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5633026-8778167710240044476?l=productinnovator.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://d-lightstudios.com/' title='Dublin City Female Entrepreneur of the Year'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/8778167710240044476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/8778167710240044476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/2011/01/dublin-city-female-entreprenuer-of-year.html' title='Dublin City Female Entrepreneur of the Year'/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TSR24FpjQbI/AAAAAAAAABU/BnU7v0OJ-gU/s72-c/Agata_cyclorama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026.post-684037192825919172</id><published>2010-12-13T20:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-12-13T20:13:01.888Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Irish Software Association'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product Managment TechBrew event'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZ85rJ3wPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/76lhw7d3jpo/s1600/Winter_wonderland1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550260921059229938" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZ85rJ3wPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/76lhw7d3jpo/s320/Winter_wonderland1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dublin has been a winter wonderland lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately this has meant that some events have been postponed until the New Year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definetly looking forward to the Irish Software Association's TechBrew event on Product Management - to be scheduled for Jan 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently 125 interested parties had signed up for the December event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eventelephant.com/TechBrewDublin2"&gt;www.eventelephant.com/TechBrewDublin2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5633026-684037192825919172?l=productinnovator.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/684037192825919172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/684037192825919172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/2010/12/dublin-has-been-winter-wonderland_13.html' title=''/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZ85rJ3wPI/AAAAAAAAAA8/76lhw7d3jpo/s72-c/Winter_wonderland1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026.post-8148860475680790553</id><published>2010-12-13T19:40:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-12-13T20:35:22.031Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Going for Growth Seeks Female Entrepreneurs'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQaB9YXaPeI/AAAAAAAAABE/uITRnv6ZC88/s1600/green_grass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQaB9YXaPeI/AAAAAAAAABE/uITRnv6ZC88/s320/green_grass.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As a past participant of Going for Growth, I'd highly recommend the initiative to women entrepreneurs who are serious about growing their businesses:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Going for Growth are offering an opportunity to 60 women entrepreneurs who are commited to growing their businesses to participate in the newest cycle of the programme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Suitable applicants will have at least 2 years running their business of which they own at least 50%, be working full time in the business, and be willing to commit fully to the initiative.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Going for Growth has successfully run two cycles, and over 100 women entrepreneurs have benefited from the participation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Going for Growth was included by the EU Commission in the 2009 &lt;em&gt;Good Practises &lt;/em&gt;and voted into the Top 10 as &lt;em&gt;most beneficial to implement&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;More information, testimonials and application form at: &lt;a href="http://www.goingforgrowth.com/"&gt;http://www.goingforgrowth.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5633026-8148860475680790553?l=productinnovator.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/8148860475680790553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/8148860475680790553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/2010/12/as-past-participant-of-going-for-growth.html' title=''/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQaB9YXaPeI/AAAAAAAAABE/uITRnv6ZC88/s72-c/green_grass.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633026.post-10596489093150840</id><published>2003-07-31T11:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T20:21:21.459Z</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Mary Ryan is founder and CEO of Product Innovator Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Product Innovator Ltd is focussed on developing sales and marketing strategies to assist technology companies in identifying customer demand. &lt;br /&gt;This provides a step by step outline of the approach to take from developing beta sites and sales prospects to mapping a products deliverables as well as creating a sales and marketing pitch to the many influencers involved in investing and purchasing ICT products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary has extensive hands - on experience in the Industry having previously managed the “Orbix E2A Mainframe Edition” product line at IONA Technologies.  She previously worked as a software engineer and has a strong background in the financial services IT Sector.  Mary holds a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;W: www.productinnovator.com&lt;br /&gt;E:  mary.ryan@productinnovator.com&lt;br /&gt;O: + 353 1 2401324&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5633026-10596489093150840?l=productinnovator.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/10596489093150840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5633026/posts/default/10596489093150840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://productinnovator.blogspot.com/2003/07/mary-ryan-is-founder-and-ceo-of-product.html' title=''/><author><name>Product Innovator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12170866425600085575</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0bX0-EHeulU/TQZeWZXq37I/AAAAAAAAAAM/9bV255dl_I8/S220/Mary_Ryan_MD.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
