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Consulting Tip 5: How to Think About Business Models to Avoid Commodity Work & Commodity Fees

Johanna Rothman

When consultants ask these questions, the consultants assume they are showing their unique value. They're showing how they only offer commodity, and too often, inadequate, consulting. Worse, these consultants give all consultants a bad name. I explain how in Successful Independent Consulting.)

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Women in Technology – Careers and Certifications

eG Innovations

The discussion focused on the mechanics of certifications, what to choose, how to get support and mentorship, and how to overcome barriers such as cost, confidence, and access to lab equipment. Danielle Castelli , Director of Exam Development at CompTIA, overseeing the development of CompTIA’s 14 certifications.

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Growth Funding, Certifications, and the Increased Demand for Product Managers

ProductPlan

In late summer of 2021, Product School announced that it had raised $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform. Certainly, Covid created an unprecedented surge in the demand for PM training and certification. Let’s take a look at what’s behind the steady increase in the demand for product managers.

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How to Scale Customer Success with Digital Customer Education

Gainsight

Digital customer education refers to using a learning management system (LMS) and a digital customer academy to increase the reach, impact, and efficiency of training. Use Insights to Deliver Proactive Training Ask any CSM what arcade game best describes their day-to-day and I bet most of them would say whack-a-mole. Certifications.

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Introducing a Premier Community of Product Analytics Specialists

Amplitude

We launched our Solutions Partner Program in 2017 with 5 initial Solutions Partners—agencies and consultancies that provide strategic and technical support for product analytics services. The Insights Expert has successfully completed training modules and a strategy certification assessment. Insights Expert. Jessica Wagner.

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Prospects Will Sell Themselves. You Just Have to Let Them!

Product Management University

Your credibility and consultative approach is what will make you unique, especially in a sales role. Our framework and training programs give you a simple recipe for developing meaningful business content to drive the sales process in the proper context of the people you’re interacting with at all levels of the customer organization.

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

In early days, when many of the creators of these processes were working as consultants in companies, the Product Owner was the customer – an internal person in the business who would sit with the team and prioritize the backlog of work. I’ve trained dozens of teams who are using SAFe and I have never seen this work well.