Upcoming ZOOM Meeting
FRIDAY, April 3, 2020
Opening Discussion Topic:
COVID-19: What’s Best for Your Company Now?
COVID-19 has gone from infecting one person on November 17, to a WHO-declared Global Pandemic on March 11th.
The U.S. has gone from reporting its first case on January 20th, to declaring COVID-19 a National Emergency on March 13th. In addition to calling for home isolation for seniors and those with chronic conditions, the Governor called for the closing of bars, nightclubs, brewpubs, wineries, and half the restaurant space. California’s schools and universities, and most tech businesses – from giants like Google, to smaller businesses like ours, are shifting to working and meeting remotely.
Opening Discussion Questions:
- Relative to COVID-19, what are you most concerned about for your business?
- What is working well, and what isn’t, for you relative to “Remote Work”:
- With your employees?
- With your customers?
- With the other “outside organizations” you deal with?
- What are the most difficult new problems this is causing your company?
- How are you dealing with them?
- What major changes will you make once the COVID-19 Situation begins to significantly recede?
As always, we’ll look to hear and discuss, “What ELSE is Keeping You Up Nights?”
And, we’ll also be serving as Strategic Advisory Board Members to Andrew Bodis, as he makes his Featured Member Presentation. Andrew is President and CTO of The Development Factory, which serves businesses looking to develop and launch (or replatform) digital products that grow top-line revenue or increase operational efficiency. The Development Factory deploys whole product teams on a fractional basis so that the client can focus on the goal, not the process. Throughout every engagement, The Development Factory helps clients sustainably insource great talent, expert product knowledge, a
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Past Discussion Topic Include
- Effective Remote Team Members - What Works?
- Hiring & Retaining Key Talent - What Works?
- Gaining Competitive Advantage With Analytics, How?
- Key Issues Shaping Your 2020 Strategy
- Developing Your Key Marketing Person: Why? How?
- Ensuring Effective Cypersecurity - What's Working?
- Where Would I Invest An Extra $10M? Why There?
- Capturing Value with Your Digital Strategy
- Re-Thinking Your Digital Strategy
- Key Issues Shaping Your 2019 Strategy
- Customer Experience Management: Why? & How?
- Agile Teams - When, Where & Why?
- Blockchain - Applications Emerging – for Whom, What, Why & When
- The People Side – A Key To Change Management
- Becoming A Learning Organization: Why - What - How?
- Making Culture A Key Competitive Asset – How?
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