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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? The automotive industry’s entrenched methods focused on optimizing these ICE systems, often at the expense of innovation in alternative energy sources. Trust, outcomes, value?

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Business Acumen

The Product Bistro

Let’s assume that they could build the truck at a total cost of $14,000, and that the dynamics of the automotive dealer network apply, and about $3K of dealer incentives are needed to move the trucks. One does not need an MBA to realize that this is a poor strategic decision. A short cab, 3.3L Swinging back to smartphones.

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

Ford’s glory days as one of America’s top automotive companies were a distant past, and the company was staring at $17 billion losses. In just over five years, Ford was reporting $20 billion in profits and was the only automotive company in the US to avoid a government bail-out. What is Self-Awareness Anyway? hurt coordination by 46%.

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Top Product Manager Roles at Data-Driven Companies (+Candidate Spotlight)

Userpilot

Meta is looking for an Operations leader to join the Product Data Operations (PDO) team. As a Manager on the PDO GenAI team, you will be responsible for managing a team of Project Managers to supply product teams with critical data and data labeling for Meta’s GenAI products. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success (Pragmatic Live Transcripts)

Pragmatic Marketing

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? And I'd love to hear a little bit about how you got to Cox automotive and what Cox automotive does.

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A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success (Pragmatic Live Transcripts)

Pragmatic Marketing

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? And I'd love to hear a little bit about how you got to Cox automotive and what Cox automotive does.

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If I Were Building a Product Marketing Organization From the Ground Up

Product Management University

Most product marketing leaders inherit a team and then face the task of shaping it to meet their ideal make-up and the desired goals of the organization. Here’s the big dilemma if you’re leading a product marketing team. The ideal team size versus the budget you’ll end up with. Here are my top 5 building blocks.