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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

Building Innovation Culture: Lessons from PayPal’s Innovation Lab In our discussion, Mike shares insights from his experience building PayPal’s Innovation Lab following the company’s separation from eBay in 2015.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. Similar, right?

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. They review the manager’s performance. How do I review work coming out of a line manager’s team in a way that is additive or complementary to what the manager is already doing?

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Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies

freshtrax

According to an article by Tech :: Note , the Japanese tech industry has grown as a whole with continual increases in the total revenue of the industry, from 14,380 billion yen (approx. 159 billion USD) in 2015. Top 10 Japanese tech companies by capital value (November 2018). Revenue in Yen. Revenue in USD. SoftBank. ?1,065.5

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Here’s Why Every Product Manager Must Learn to Love Data

UserVoice

Thanks to these powerful analytics tools, you do not need to be a data scientist to collect and analyze data anymore, and according to a piece published by Harvard Business Review , you don’t even have to be a “math person” to make smart data driven decisions. Product Management Careers are Trending Toward Data. Photo courtesy of r2hox.

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Choosing the Right Planning Horizon for Your Product

Roman Pichler

This is due to a simple but fundamental correlation: the further we look into the future, the less we can see. The product was launched in April 2015, but I am not convinced that it has entered the growth stage. You should therefore regularly review your plans and revise them. Take the Apple Watch as an example.

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Why your IT Project is Doomed to Fail – David Kullmann (ProductTank NYC)

Mind the Product

In 2015, the worldwide spending in IT was 3.4 trillion dollars that was spent worldwide in 2015, about 2.4 Long-term concerns can develop early on, but action isn’t taken due to short-term focus. Eventually, the project fails despite new and improved methods and technology. IT Project Failures – The Statistics.