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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. How Solution Consultants Become the Key to Differentiation If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant, there are two parts to the differentiation equation.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Pinar Alpay, Chief Product & Marketing Officer at Signicat

280 Group

My first job was as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. After a while, as many consultants do, I wanted to get my hands dirty “on the other side”, so I joined Barclaycard International as Head of Strategy and Planning. 280 Group is the world’s leading Product Management training and consulting firm.

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5 Best Design and Innovation Consulting Firms to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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“My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…”

Mironov Consulting

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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Should I Be A Consultant or A Product Manager?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Considering a career in management consulting or product management? Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. Clients hire consultants when their businesses require assistance achieving a desired goal (eg. There may be a consultant out there who can help.

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Let’s Talk About the F Word?—?Features

The Product Coalition

And even when a product manager pushes for outcomes, finance pushes back. It’s incredible how many times I have lived through this conversation throughout my career in organizations large and small as an employee and a consultant. Finance must agree, alter processes and initiate changes to systems. Do not give in.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Quisha Light, Manager, Product Development and Lifecycle Management at Portland General Electric

280 Group

My team has to negotiate and advocate internally with the finance team, the legal department, the tax groups, regulatory compliance, and operational teams. I’m also looking for people with general business knowledge and understanding so that they can engage with their counterparts in finance, legal, and etc. About the Author.