Tom Spencer

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s no secret that a healthy workplace is a more productive workplace. However, with remote work and working from home on the rise, many employees have faced challenges with transforming their spare bedroom or basement area into an organized and productive home office. Setup your Tech for Comfort and Productivity.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. For example, someone on your team who is feeling down enters a meeting. Stress is an emotional contagion.

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Chad Barr

MAY 3, 2023

As a devoted advocate of ChatGPT, I leverage its capabilities daily to significantly enhance my skills, productivity and impact. During the event, I shared numerous examples of how ChatGPT can benefit you. During the event, I shared numerous examples of how ChatGPT can benefit you.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. For example, if it is a tactical check-in and you don’t expect it to take a full 30 minutes, don’t hesitate to schedule 15 minutes instead. Share your objective and agenda ahead of time. Optimize your “tech” in advance.

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Chad Barr

MAY 31, 2023

I would like to share with you how I’ve utilized chatGPT over the past several months, starting with these 5 examples: Improving my weekly newsletters: I provide chatGPT with the crux of what I intend to write. I then solicit additional insights, examples, and quotes from renowned leaders.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. For example, I often listen to master classes, podcasts, and business news while doing the manual work of sorting seashells. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. Stay Focused. Drive Neuroplasticity .

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Employee productivity is critical to a manager’s success. Increasing Employee Productivity, Motivation, and Engagement. Most notably, companies foster toxic workplaces that derail employee productivity. For example, one leader walked up to one of his managers and asked in a confrontive manner, “What do YOU do here?”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. However, when I switched to continuous flow, I have a different approach to my planning and sizing of my work: I have a yearly strategy with the answers to who I serve with which products and services. What happened?

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 23, 2011

These are companies that are essentially independent from product vendors. However, there are a number of companies that provide consulting or professional services as part of product companies (e.g., Improper tone for sales meetings – Product companies are often used to marketing-push type sales strategies (e.g.,

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Kai Davis

MAY 30, 2020

Crafting and testing a productized offer is an iterative process. You’re going to start with your best guess, collect information and feedback through research, interviews, and conversations, and then use your findings to craft the next version of your productized offer. What goes into the scope of your offer? Throw money at you?

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Love of a product or service is never a good reason to buy a business, which is why it’s called buyer fever. The post Buyer Fever – An Example appeared first on Martinka Consulting. Never mind he grossly overpaid. He got to own the business whose services he was infatuated with. When emotion overtakes logic, it leads to trouble.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. Here are some examples of projects where we learn, but the product doesn’t change: Events, such as weddings or conferences.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 11, 2019

That intent might be an entire product. That cross-functional team is a product team or a feature team. I tend to call them feature teams because they might move from feature set to feature set when they work as part of a program or over time as the product evolves. Change Team Organization to Focus on Product or Features.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Or, the product owner thinks you can do more. See Agile Transformation: Practice Change, Part 2 for an example.). Notice that this value can be for the customer, the product owner, the team, and anyone else involved in the product. The MVP is not the entire product. In my view, it's not even most of the product.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When time gets short (for new parents or startup founders, for example) we naturally focus on getting efficient. But being efficient is not the same as being productive. Productive is the skill of getting the right things done, so that we accomplish what we set out to do in the first place.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 3, 2019

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. I suggested a product value team because one person becomes a bottleneck. One person is unlikely to shepherd the strategy and the tactics for a product. Can Your Customer Be Your Product Owner? Think small.).

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 20, 2019

Fields in Productize Yourself, Chapter 1: Why Your Consulting Website Matters. EXAMPLE CONSULTING WEBSITE: David C. EXAMPLE: Whizard Strategy. EXAMPLE: Val Geisler. In this consulting website example, notice the buttons. And it helps you productize yourself. It’s a win-win. That’s how it should be.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 12, 2019

What I’m going to do in this post is to give two examples of conclusions to the same case interview: one okay conclusion and one great conclusion. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, what I would do is pause reading and look at the following link , which covers four great tips on how to improve your conclusion. Okay Conclusion.

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Kai Davis

MAY 18, 2020

Crafting and testing a productized offer is an iterative process. You’re going to start with your best guess, collect information and feedback through research, interviews, and conversations, and then use your findings to craft the next version of your productized offer. Fixed timeline (e.g., Fixed scope (e.g., Why aren’t they?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2019

For example, you could state how you developed a quality management system that resulted in lower production costs, from $40 per unit to $30 per unit (or something similar). Resume Example. Here is an example resume that highlights the tips I’ve mentioned. Stand Out from the Crowd. It takes lots of time and attention.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

The following is an example of a real-life case a student received and my advice on how to go about solving the case step by step. PS: the product was the film on top of tables, cabinets etc.). Question: I have a question regarding a case I had in an interview with AT Kearney last month.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2023

Shifting to the world of human behavior, one classic example of the impact of anchoring on judgments was done by Jacowitz and Kahneman, where they asked people to guess the height of the tallest redwood tree. For example, in another post , my colleague, Prof. The implications of anchors in real world applications can be large.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. We like to learn.).

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. The product is done, done, done.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Organizations can find ways to improve the take-up rates of products and programs by utilizing concepts from behavioral economics. These techniques have been used to convince more citizens to apply for tax benefits and more franchised hotels to use a new algorithmic pricing system, among other examples.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. I think of spreadsheets as an unintentional, but prime example of this. AI to take the place of humans in product development. There is one silver bullet for product development—the speed of team learning time.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.

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