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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

” When we have insufficient trust, morale and the products deteriorate. Instead, we can extend trust and keep innovating for morale and the products. You and your managers might have trained people not to take chances, not to experiment. Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. And maybe, right now, you can't.

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Consultant Marketing Elite Rage

Jerry Fletcher

It is about the people and companies you can impact with your processes and trainings and ways to change the way your clients think. I don’t Know your company’s product. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. If it is used as a way to begin building humility, all the better. It is all about them I say. It is not about you dear elite.

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Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs

Johanna Rothman

You've got interdependencies across the organization for a given project or program to release a product. You can see demos. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Release criteria tells you when a product is done.

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

They hired me because they were in danger of going out of business due to their inability to release a working product. That's because they had an architecture that couldn't scale, people who couldn't do the work, and a mess of a product. Instead, tell the manager to create the environment where the team can release the product.).

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What To Do When a Sales Prospect Says No

LSA Global

However, salespeople are human, and when a sales prospect says no — to a sales meeting , to a demo, or to the sale itself — they may be tempted to think that “no means no” and stop or delay pursuing their ideal target client. Instead of talking about yourself and your product, you’re asking about them. How have you prepared for that?”

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. For the professional services industry, KaaS unlocks a new revenue stream and allows them to “productize” and package expertise in a SaaS-like subscription model.