Tom Spencer

AUGUST 24, 2019

Being a product manager requires taking responsibility. You are the ambassador of the product. You’re responsible for it from its first fuzzy idea, to concrete concept, through production, launch, and all the way to maturity stage. Stepping into the Product Manager Role. Product Manager Career Paths.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Until the latter part of the 20th century, firms were organized in a top-down hierarchical fashion using production techniques that broke down job tasks into their smallest components — what came to be known as a Taylorist or Fordist method of production. And, more specific, does it boost productivity?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I’m terrible at attention to detail (it hurts my brain too much) and even worse at anything aesthetically oriented (anything from fashion to website design to creating visually impactful slides). When I buy a new product, the first thing I do is throw out the product manual. They are very fun to work with.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Your career will be much more productive and successful if you can find a "game" (a profession) that plays to your strengths and competitive advantages, instead of one that constantly exposes your weaknesses. For example, I have two acquaintances who, in high school, both had an eye for fashion and design. One attended a top 200 U.S.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

On the other hand, most tech companies and fashion brands lose their mojo and their masses when they try to be the regular kind. They either make the product stale and dumb, or go back to having a circus, but this time filled with compromises.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or are retail partners selling the product in such a way that is somehow incomplete? Work in product management. Work for one of the major fashion designers in NYC. .

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 19, 2019

The first option to price a product is to look at how much it costs the company and then to set a price by adding a markup so that the company earns a certain profit margin on each unit sold. Here are the typical questions you need to go through for cost-based pricing: What are the variable costs for the product you are pricing?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. In this fashion, a solution to the lack of smartphones has been developed.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, in a retail setting, let’s say a fashion clothing client wants to understand the purchasing behaviour of their customers. The client can use this insight to target their marketing campaigns and direct their product development efforts accordingly.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

If your VP of engineering wants to do a complete technical redesign of your flagship product, you want to ask. Then I asked, "Do they go to Facebook to learn more about your products?" You want to do this in a step-by-step fashion. If your VP of sales wants to change the sales compensation plan, you want to ask. Answer: "No.".

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years. Producers of consumer goods have been especially successful in developing and marketing new products using this approach.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 29, 2023

That's the nature of courage — not being unafraid but confronting fear and danger and performing in a selfless fashion. In addition to increased productivity of expected behavior, selfless love impacts an employee's discretionary effort , also known as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Selfless love is rare. Castriota, S., &

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Rick Conlow

MAY 21, 2021

They found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. Training plus coaching increased productivity by 88%! If you learn to coach well or even in an exemplary fashion, you will quickly separate yourself from all others. Furthermore, another study found a return on investment of coaching to be 529%!

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Value stream maps (VSMs) show both the material and the information flow in any kind of end-to-end process such as order to cash, or new product introduction. In total, the back and forth shipping of samples could add weeks to the product development timeline. What is value stream mapping?

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. For the first group, the entire series of printers was branded in a sequential fashion, from 2300W to 2900W.

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The Source

MARCH 12, 2019

It’s a career that has spanned two continents and which has resulted in Wingard becoming one of the key players in the male-dominated world of industrial products. At the root of Wingard’s success is old-fashioned hard work, an attribute that’s been in evidence since the earliest days of her career journey.…

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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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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Project Innovators provide the deliverables in a timely fashion by working with Project Managers ( PMs ). Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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BCG

APRIL 13, 2016

And in the quest for focus, the conglomerate, with its seemingly cumbersome multidimensional business model, fell out of fashion—at least in developed markets. To do this, companies need to develop ways to serve different customer groups across a variety of regional markets with a multitude of products and services.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Having reshaped the print media and music industries, digital disruption is now sweeping through the rest of media in similar fashion, rendering traditional video distribution models outmoded. Article Tuesday, September 06, 2016. Now, it’s TV’s turn.

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1 to 1

JULY 7, 2021

C&A Brasil, for example, the Brazilian arm of a European chain of fast-fashion clothing, saw purchases through its WhatsApp channel grow exponentially during the pandemic. Conrado Leister, country managing director of Facebook Brasil, agreed. “I It’s a massive personalization opportunity.”

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

The factory owner seeks productivity, which equals more, which means pushing people to go faster. Unless you’re doing easily measured piecework in the old-fashioned cottage industry mindset (the original work from home job), then the opportunity is to raise your hand, not keep your head down. Home is long-term, work might not be.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Trying to improve productivity in a process by 25% on first try is (generally) a recipe for failure and frustration—notwithstanding Byrne’s success with that approach. Paul Akers has done amazing work leading lean at FastCap in just this fashion. You build your way up to those levels.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Then we can compare the subsequent behavior of these two similar employees, to see how learning that your boss makes much more than you might affect your productivity. But we need further evidence to better understand how to best leverage transparency to promote productivity and employee satisfaction.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

There are four steps which will greatly increase your chances of success by helping you to structure your answer in an intelligent and commercially aware fashion. Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Education levels.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

An interface communicates the algorithms’ results along with more-nuanced data, such as the personal notes, to the company’s fashion stylists, who then select five items from a variety of brands to send to the customer. The fashion industry is no stranger to fast cycles of learning.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. But how then do we explain ‘high productivity’ in environments that are typically low engagement? Engagement is used as a proxy for productivity – as if the two terms were interchangeable.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

These are great for: Trial marketing a new brand, product, or testing out a new region. Whether repurposed for a fashion show, art exhibition, festival, or music concert, your previously low-value property may be able to command a high price. Below are five (5) tips on converting a vacant spot into a high-revenue lease property.

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SkillQuo

MAY 16, 2018

Technological advancement has reached an unseen height where workplaces and employment are no longer about the typical 9-5, linear path to promotion, but rather a path for extracting the greatest capabilities from employees as well as producing thought-provoking, functional, dynamic products/services.

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Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

What does it say that most fashion pictures of women have them posing with their mouth open? Productivity. (6). Side note: Did you know that people (like the above model) who appear to be breathing through their mouth (aka "mouth-breathers") are generally perceived as having lower intelligence ? Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 3:56 PM.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

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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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As consumers increasingly use their mobiles to become more knowledgeable about products - and even use their phones as an in-aisle companion whilst shopping in-store - the influence of mobile phones on shopping is something a consultant cannot ignore in their financial and business model advice. Comparison websites. Payment Apps.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 16, 2014

Every once in a while, we adopt something because it''s truly a better technology, a new taste sensation, a productivity shortcut that pays for itself regardless of what people think of it. And so, new fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what''s correct.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.

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