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507: Navigating the second product problem – with Greg Coticchia

Product Innovation Educators

Employees who have been with the company for a long time may find it difficult to adapt to new directions, especially if they’ve been successful with the original product. Additionally, he was named a Distinguished Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business in 2006 and the Swanson School of Engineering in 2023.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

In smaller companies and startups, both need to have a clear and firm understanding of the product strategy. It’s common for Product Managers to transition to CEO in this way, because they’ve already been playing the role of leader.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

In 2006 Netflix organised a $1,000,000 competition to improve its recommendations: the goal was to improve the predictions of how many stars a user would give to a particular movie. Moreover, it’s not only changes in these components that might affect you.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. Product management under sales. When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

We all know that product managers sometimes think of themselves as “CEO of the Product,” but does that really prepare you to be CEO of a company? And not just any company, but one of the largest, highest-profile companies in the world?

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S.

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Project Manager vs Product Manager

BrainMates

From these definitions we can see that a project manager’s focus is internal and tactical whereas a Product Manager’s focus is external — on the customers’ needs and on the product strategy required to meet them. 2006) Marketing, 7th Ed. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBOK Guide.