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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

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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Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience

LSA Global

Customer Experience Transformation Transforming your customer’s experience is far more comprehensive an effort than just musing about customer behavior or surveying a slice of your market. Because your customer experience is an extension of your vision and your brand promise, you need to agree upon where you are headed and why.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Both have advantages.

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Three C’s Framework

Tom Spencer

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. It may make sense to segment customers by: Age group; Gender; Income level; Employment status; Distribution channel; Region; Product or product line; New versus existing customers; or.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Based on a recent study by Global Industry Analysts , the global market for wearable medical devices is projected to eclipse $4.5 1 In the United States, the predominant market in this space, it is estimated that roughly 20% of Americans currently own a wearable fitness device. billion by 2020. Potential Benefits.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries.