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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. The Simple Secret to Differentiation Think about someone you really enjoyed buying from. What made that buying experience so enjoyable? Here’s how to do it.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

While managers can determine how different various developers, testers, UX, etc people are, very few managers can differentiate one agile coach from another. Industry expertise. The unsaid expectations of the industry in which you work. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Or, one Scrum Master from another.

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Modus Create Receives Strategic Growth Investment from JLL Partners

Modus Create

JLL Partners is a middle-market private equity firm with over three decades of experience transforming businesses in the healthcare, specialty industrials, and business services sectors. Disrupting Traditional Consulting. “As We’re at an inflection point in the digital transformation consulting space.

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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Slightly less useless are the case interview formats used by many top-tier consulting firms. These formulaic interviews can be aced with practice , aided a well-established industry. Research shows that unstructured interviews are only able to predict 14% of future job performance. Hire smart people by posing some analytical questions.

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How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software

Mironov Consulting

But I’ve been working with several clients who build long-lived industrial hardware — and whose core operating assumptions can make it difficult to add revenue software products to their portfolio. Serious industrial companies build serious long-lived industrial equipment.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. The smartphone industry has been frequently criticized for its negative social and environmental impact, from hazardous e-waste to poor working conditions in supply chains. More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation.

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Statistical Factors that Contribute to High Performance on Product Teams

bpma ProductHub

Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. Developing both strategic skills and multi-year product strategy (linked to your company’s overarching business goals) provides a statistically significant path to higher levels of performance and market differentiation.