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5 Strategies for Success in Product Management

Tom Spencer

It also ensures more informed and holistic decision-making by making sure that the perspectives of engineers, designers, marketers, and executives are understood. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology.

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Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture?

LSA Global

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? Certainly, one can admire an organization with a strong sense of direction and company purpose. But if that organization does not also have a healthy degree of cultural flexibility, they may not survive.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business

Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture. Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. HR must be a partner and enabler — but not the owner.

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