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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: Corre Curtice, VP of Product Management at Genesys

280 Group

Advice for women in Product Management: Learn about finance, marketing, and sales; have the confidence to overcome impostor syndrome; focus on delivering valuable outcomes for customers. I recommend learning about finance so you can represent your products’ contributions to the company.

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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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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Jennifer Marx, Vice President of Product Management at Sythentaic?

280 Group

So, tell me, what brought you to Product Management?  I went to school for economics to be a banker or something in finance. Over the 10 years I was at Johnston Controls, I held positions leading a PO team, working with advanced R&D doing VOC work, but mostly I was in program management. Fortunately, I ended up in technology.

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How to Avoid Career-Damaging Mistakes as a Product Manager [+Webinar]

280 Group

Or maybe you stepped into a management position and you are managing a couple of Product Managers (who manage the great new “thing”). Now is the time to maximize this opportunity and be incredibly effective in this new position. Ken Feehan is a Principal Consultant and Trainer for 280 Group. You landed that great new gig….

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Adaptive Mindset ‘Hats’ Your Product Manager Wears

BrainMates

But whether you’re looking down the tree from a CEO or GM position, or across the aisle from Engineering or Finance, you’re unlikely to see everything that goes into keeping things running smoothly. Getting anything done – let alone getting everyone to agree on what ‘done’ means – can often feel like a miracle.

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Systems Thinking, Part 1: Building Product Resilience to Bypass Disaster

280 Group

The marketing, sales, legal, finance, support, supply chain, administrative, and other teams who impact the overall delivery of the product from the company to the market. Make connections and set goals together, you’ll be surprised at the positive responses. Colleen O’Rourke is a Principal Consultant/Trainer at 280 Group.