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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Graduating with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Gujarat University in 2005 and an MBA from Webster University in 2020, Nishant combines technical expertise with business acumen. Parikh is a dynamic professional with a diverse academic background and extensive experience in computer science and product management.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

Sitting at the hard end of the spectrum are leadership, collaboration and communication skills – all of which are coachable, but take time and investment. As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. Running throughout them all are character traits.

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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How High Performance Organisations Innovate at Scale by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

80% of companies think they’re providing a superior proposition, according to Closing the Delivery Gap, the well-known 2005 survey from Bain and Co. ” This is a great way for leadership teams to illustrate what they believe good looks like, and then letting their teams come up with the solution. Closing the Delivery Gap.

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TEI 323: Product management insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon – with Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

Product Innovation Educators

Our 14 leadership principles are woven into the DNA of everyone who works there and every process in the company, and six of them are directly related to innovation: Customer obsession—people wake up every day trying to figure out how to delight their customers. And, they are here to share their insights with us. .

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Jenn got her break into the digital industry back in 2005 when her boss walked into the office and asked her to ‘figure out this whole digital download thing.’

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Jenn got her break into the digital industry back in 2005 when her boss walked into the office and asked her to ‘figure out this whole digital download thing.’