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Strategic jiujitsu: 4 Lessons from Southwest Airlines, Western Europe, and the Simpsons

The Product Coalition

Southwest Airlines gives us a great case study here. In the 1970s, all the incumbent major airlines had purchased the rights to the gates of the major airports, thus preventing new airlines from flying out of them. However, this approach had also caused those incumbent airlines to abandon gates at smaller airports.

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5 Tech Trends in 2019 We Need to Consider as a Design Team

UX Studio: Product Management

Technology today has started to unfold around us to change our lives for good, and it’s vital for UX Designers to keep up-to-date with the latest digital trends in the industry. So it’s crucial for designers to learn and understand these new technologies and the way people will interact with them. VR and AR – how did it progress?

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Close Your Eyes and Imagine a Strategy. Let Me Guess: Got Nothing?

The Product Coalition

What are the two to five unique and pivotal decisions that will define our solution? Here’s my best guess at Southwest Airlines’ strategy circa the 1970s (it has changed little since): (1) Buyer + $ value pool. over-served by major airlines) who want a faster and similarly low-cost alternative. What are our sources of advantage?

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Insights from a Product Manager User Research Interview

Balsamiq

This is the kind of thing that analytics will never tell you. In this role, I find market problems worth solving, guide the creation of solutions and take the solutions to market. Listen to your customers carefully to understand their problems but do not listen to them about the solutions.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Perhaps you worked on a digital strategy or an IT system change.

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How I got a $375K PM offer from Instagram

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

I joined as “Head of Analytics” ?? Second interview is on product sense to see whether you can come up with interesting, customer-friendly product solutions. Here’s an article I wrote about how to handle metric-related questions. I try to avoid the healthcare system altogether, so I had less intuition around what to create.