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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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. Even 20 seconds googling will provide you with images of linear progression, mathematical equations etc when thinking about productivity.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 13, 2018

It’s simply the smartest way of finding and connecting with your ideal client, establishing your credibility, increasing your number of discovery meetings and close rates as well as giving you the platform to increasing your fees. We don't sell a tangible product or service. If they experience a quick win, they'll want some more.

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They meet spec. If they all meet spec, is it any wonder our pricing is collapsing. You have just further commoditized your product. If we both meet spec, what is going to make my report stand out against yours? If an entire industry is busy seeking to meet that average, we can define that work as mediocre.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

When an aircraft manufacturer decides to create a new model, it doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, and then put all the pieces together. All of this leads to needless patient harm, low productivity, excessive costs, and clinician burnout.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Although one of the main tasks of any software consulting project is to code the software programs, engagements begin with a meeting or field visit with the client to discuss their issues in detail. Training the client’s staff requires strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills. Background and education are important.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’ve seen this pattern at most of my clients, and at the companies I meet at various lean conferences. After all, it’s exponentially harder to relocate machines, re-engineer production lines, and redesign equipment and products than it is to move around a few desks, change a computer interface, or change the flow of paper through departments.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun. So, for instance, a sales training company might want to emphasize that their training is guaranteed to increase sales, improve sales confidence quickly, and can be delivered virtually in 45-minute online modules. Cheers, Robert.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Some Training Required.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders. The changes can be incredibly powerful like a search engine that does complex Boolean searches based on answers to questions in English. Yes, they were trying to make their product better than all the others out there.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

There’s more exciting stuff to be done that also might have more impact in the long run: Finding new clients Creating new products or service offerings Defining strategy and strategic goals Working on your company culture Discussing potential new partners And an endless number of other things. If you don’t, delegate it to them.

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

You’re an excellent engineer/IT professional/accountant/[choose your own adventure]…we’re going to reward you by promoting you to a management role. The first is that the skills that made you a great engineer/IT professional/accountant are the exact same skills required for you to be an effective manager (which is not the case).

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Brimstone Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a normal environment, people can meet for coffee, for a drink, or dinner. Organizations can bring their remote teams together for an event or training. This means ensuring employees have the technology and supplies needed to be productive. Fire Engine RED has a friendly intranet named alfRED. Future of Work.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

If businesses were to evolve by natural selection alone, only those companies that best meet customer demands by chance would survive. Well, if survival were a simple matter of meeting customer demands it might be possible to succeed by mere chance. Do not expect services or products to be perfect on the first go.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Pinterest’s fastest growing users are outside of the United States, and for current and future users, it’s important that the people building our product make it relevant to people of different ethnic, social, physical, and geographic backgrounds. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. He shares a number of ways that he has made this work for him, including aggressively building product.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

In-person meetings have nearly disappeared, replaced by Zoom meetings, webinars, virtual trade shows, online wine tastings, and cooking demonstrations. Sales training and services To win, you must train; that’s where sales training and services come in. Where you go from there is up to you.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

.” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well.

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Evaluating Your Team's Psychological Safety In teams with high levels of psychological safety, you can observe certain behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a positive and productive team environment. Psychological safety and respectful accountability make up the engine for a dynamic and highly effective team. Why is that?

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We help our clients bring new-to-the-world products to market or existing products to new markets. They asked me to get involved with writing their sales training. It was a lot of technical sales training about their products. We’ve been doing this since 1995. I said, “I think I can do that.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. Training the model. To train this model, we first collated historical data from the past three years across thousands of projects, comprising millions of records.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. Your goal is success.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

When we decided to take a “distributed first” approach to meetings, not everyone was comfortable with the idea. People who were co-located bristled at the idea of having to go through the extra steps of running an efficient distributed meeting when only one or two people were not in the room with them. Quite the contrary.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The idea was simple: Instead of making buyers go through the entire online ordering sequence only to find stock-outs or delivery delays, why not alert them to product availability upfront? Might product bundles or incentives meaningfully shift demand and production flows? Would they defect to competitors?

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

It seems, though, that time doesn’t have to meet the same bar. If you had a factory job, it wasn’t your job to worry about productivity. And yet, we hardly talk about productivity. Productivity is the amount of useful output created for every hour of work we do. What’s the most productive choice?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Every high performer needs both.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Examples of these projects might be a voice interface to help pharmacists look up substitute drugs, or a tool to schedule internal meetings. Technology that’s been trained on photos from past claims can accurately estimate the extent of the damage and automate the whole process. the parent company of Google.)

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

This high-performance organisational also needed to be able to ‘flex’ to meet future demands. Re-engineering gains can normally be achieved over a 12-week period. Workout Programme: Process re-engineering lends itself to involving people at lower levels in the organization. Secondly, the process is quick.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. . “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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