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Product Roadmap Explained

Tom Spencer

In the context of project management, a roadmap can span across multiple timelines for continuous product development. Why do you need a product roadmap? A roadmap is crucial for visualizing a product’s strategy that is aligned with your business goals, while incorporating customer insights for future developments. Product Goal.

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Build Team Resilience: Work Together (Part 1)

Johanna Rothman

” Or, someone gets pulled off to work on production support issues and is no longer available to the team for weeks. Company A is working on its umpteenth “agile transformation.” One of the big problems is that the managers think agile approaches will give them faster delivery.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. They were not agile enough. The company failed on multiple fronts. Autopsy #2 – Hummer.