BrainMates

MARCH 24, 2025

But making bets isnt just about the products we manage; its about how we approach leadership. Somehow, I kept coming back to the idea of starting a product management consultancy at a time when product management was barely on the corporate radar. Leadership isnt about always being right, its about learning, adapting, and improving.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

The product management world is being reshaped, and its not just because of AI or remote work or whatever new frameworks trending on LinkedIn this week. And when budgets are tight, leaderships not going to hire three different people when they can find one PM who can wear multiple hats. Thats why hybrid PMs are in demand.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 20, 2025

At BoS Europe 2025 , were excited to feature two lightning talks that tackle some of the biggest challenges in leadership and product development. Steve McLeod , founder of Feature Upvote and host of the Bootstrapped podcast, lifts the curtain on how these teams actually make decisions, beyond just frameworks and gut feelings.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Organizations must establish rigorous governance frameworks to mitigate these risks, ensuring GenAI is used responsibly and aligned with ethical standards. AI governance sets the foundational rules, ensuring alignment with organizational values and regulatory frameworks. Digital transformation efforts are 5.8

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These organizational transformations are being pushed by management consulting firms. Product Talk (through our training business) and Hope Gurions Fearless Product (through her leadership coaching program) are often brought in to help with these transformations. But sadly, its not that simple. Organizational change is hard.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Critically, bank leadership is on board — according to an Ernst & Young survey, “nearly every bank’s board now stamps ‘yes’ on generative AI” initiatives. institutions given their scale and technological leadership. This generative AI tool has improved the quality and speed of client consultations. In 2024, U.S.

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Arkenea

JULY 9, 2025

Healthcare organizations must conduct thorough assessments of existing infrastructure, network capacity, security frameworks, and integration requirements that will support Epic deployment. Epic implementation requires comprehensive security frameworks that meet regulatory requirements while supporting clinical workflow efficiency.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

The country’s robust STEM education ecosystem produces developers proficient in cutting-edge technologies, from advanced AI/ML frameworks to cloud architecture, mobile development, and enterprise solutions. This numerical advantage translates into unprecedented access to specialized expertise across virtually every technology domain.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ It is therefore called assigned leadership.[

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2. The final goal in the framework in Figure 2 is the sprint goal , which directs the work of the development team members.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. 15:01] How does your MAHD ( Modified Agile for Hardware Development) Framework work?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 1, 2023

Before co-founding Product Growth Leaders, his product management consulting company, he was a Pragmatic Marketing lead instructor for over 15 years. I recommend the Quartz Open Framework, which involves six steps from idea to market. 26:42] How can senior leadership be involved in product ops? Write it down.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Different product frameworks.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Vikas was able to provide me with a framework for developing product strategy, which ultimately revolves around answering the fundamental question of “how do we win?” This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. Where do we play?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

Coaching Frameworks. Sebastian’s Product Coaching Framework piece at Mind The Product. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Coaching Frameworks. Sebastian’s Product Coaching Framework piece at Mind The Product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2022

I highly recommend going through this framework twice: once with yourself, coming up with your recommendations, and then presenting it to management and letting them go through this process, either getting to the same conclusions that you did or convincing you otherwise. It’s just a matter of thinking about it this way.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. I thought this framework would work for us. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2018

He’s now a product consultant who works with a range of companies: “I plug into companies that have delivery teams, and I advise the teams on what they should do and in what order.”. Joe’s role as a product consultant means he needs to do his homework thoroughly before he even walks into a client’s office. No Magic Bullets.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! The Auftragsklärung framework. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! The Auftragsklärung framework.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 20, 2022

Tendayi is an author and innovation consultant. Organizational leadership is stewardship. Leadership asked customer-based questions like “Have you sold anything yet? Use this process to create an innovation framework—a different system for managing innovation than for managing the core business. [18:37]

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 25, 2022

I got into project management then consulting. Throughout my career, I saw a pattern: Change leadership made the difference in whether change was successful or not, yet those change leaders were essentially abandoned by the industry. There are not textbooks or certifications for change leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2019

My guest has a four-part framework for improving this and he shares it in this discussion. His name is Mike Hannan and he has helped many organizations more quickly create value for customers and themselves by applying this framework. Useful links: Mike’s group, Fortezza Consulting. Innovation Quote.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Realising it would be safer to diversify, he’s gone on to spend the last 30-plus years working with more than 90 organisations across the world in interim leadership roles and consulting. Lateral leadership. Organizational Thank Yous – your secret power for lateral leadership. Links mentioned in this episode.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2019

Many articles have been written on this subject, most of them either by product consultants or people holding one of the above titles. For example: most people have read about OKRs and want to try this framework. Does this encapsulate what you think about product leadership? What is the job of a product leader? Detailed Results.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

Ethical frameworks for product development. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ethical frameworks for product development. * Listen if you’d like to learn more about. The Black Mirror Test. Links mentioned in this episode.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Prioritisation frameworks. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Prioritisation frameworks. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Ethical frameworks for product development. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ethical frameworks for product development. * Listen if you’d like to learn more about. The Black Mirror Test. Links mentioned in this episode.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

Make sure you ask for the results you want, not a specific method, tool, framework, whatever. If senior leadership delegates the project portfolio decisions to middle management, then the middle managers decide. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. You will trust them and they will start to trust themselves.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

IoT decision framework. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. IoT decision framework. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. We commissioned Forrester Consulting , an independent research firm, to learn more about how conversational support is changing the industry. Invest in the right tools and frameworks. You can read the other posts in this series here.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy). The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Mostly I have been on the consulting side, meaning I have always had to hand over what I have built to someone else. What I have seen, is that both startups and big corporates have issues in understanding how to be more product-led without the right mindset and framework. My Coaching Framework. – Empathy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. Interim Product Manager Some consultants only play interim product roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

We commissioned Forrester Consulting , an independent research firm, to dig deeper into these questions and explore how conversational experiences are fuelling customer retention and business growth for major companies. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US. In fact, in product management has surpassed consultant as the most popular job among US MBA graduates. Joni is a product management consultant and coach with 30 years of experience. “I

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2019

But in the world of The Next Generation , Picard knew the value of the Prime Directive—of adhering to a strategic framework in service of the overall mission. You’ll hear all about these trends beyond just the leadership question at Pulse, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek with this post. Focused on defense (e.g., Recruiting.

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