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Behind Every Great Product

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There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. In the year 2011, Lea was leading product for Adobe’s Creative Suite.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

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So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. So I sat there in November 2011. And went from no launch in November 2011 to launching with Tesco February 2012, which saved us, completely saved us. Everybody needs to have a strategy.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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For those of you that don’t know, DataSift launched efficiently in end of 2011 with a proposition that was pretty hearty. I think the main thing was… what is it they say, often tactics drives strategy? The short answer to the question is tactics drive strategy. But let me tell a bit about DataSift and where we started.