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TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

Product Innovation Educators

To explain how their system works and tips for implementing a partner program, Ed Krause joins us. He has global responsibility for developing cutting edge technology and competitive advantage for Ford by developing relationships and collaborative projects involving universities and partner companies.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. But what we do is we we follow a system we built called shape up, which is our methodology for building products. Yeah, in 2006. And we were just using email, phone calls, in person meetings.

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

Upon investigation, it turned out that automation was possible just by tweaking the systems. He was involved in building a product that would completely replace the current content management system for around 600 internal users. The initial period to build this system was 12 months.