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Text Box: March 09 Newsletter Text Box: Inside this issue: Next event: Babylon arrives to Mac New job requests and offerings Excel file for job seekers This month’s article: “Innovation Trickles in a New Direction” Upcoming local/global events Text Box: Contact us: editor@ILPMA.org www.ILPMA.org Text Box: Call for speakers: Are you interesting to present in our next events? Have an interesting story from your professional experience? Please send your presentation abstract to: editor@ILPMA.org.

Upcoming Global/Local events:

 

MIT Forum—Day of Entrepreneur, MIT-Forum Israel
March 29– April 1, Recanati building, Tel Aviv University
http://www.mit-forum.org.il/Events/event.aspx?id=72

TheMarker Com.Vention
March 29, Avenue, Ben Gurion
http://conventions.themarker.com/article.asp?rId=138

RSA conference
April 20-24, San Francisco, CA
https://365.rsaconference.com/index.jspa 

ILSI-Biomed Israel 2009
June 15-17, Tel Aviv
http://www2.kenes.com/biomed/Pages/Home.aspx

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New Job Offerings

· Product Manager (Tel Aviv) - Adsmarket (HR)(24/3/09)

· Bingo product manager (Hertzlya) - 888 (17/3/09)

· Product manager (North) - Afimilk (15/3/09)

· Web product manager (Hetzlya) - 888 (15/3/09)

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Next event on: April 23

Oz Wilder, product manager
 


“Babylon arrives to Mac”
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 http://ILPMA.org/Events.html

 

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This Month’s Article:

Innovation Trickles in a New Direction
BusinessWeek , March 11, 2009

 

Over the years, multinationals have prospered by turning out premium-priced products for the world's affluent. Rather than also designing products for poorer people elsewhere, many businesses found they could simply pass yesteryear's models down, as if they were unloading fleets of used cars.

Lately, big companies such as Microsoft, Nokia, and Procter & Gamble are discovering that they can profit by targeting the world's masses first. And they can score again by selling these low-priced products elsewhere.

This month, General Electric's health-care division will begin marketing a first-of-its-kind electrocardiograph machine in the U.S. Although packed with the latest technology, the battery-powered device weighs just six pounds, half as much as the smallest ECG machine currently for sale. It will retail for a mere $2,500, an 80% markdown from products with similar capabilities.
But what really distinguishes the MAC 800 is its lineage. The machine is basically the same field model that GE Healthcare developed for doctors in India and China in 2008.

Read the full article here

Seeking a Job?

Here's a link to a useful Excel file, that lists all HR
companies and provides a tool for follow-ups on your job hunting activities:
http://prdupl02.ynet.co.il/ForumFiles_2/24355860.xls

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