The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. The four memorable moments below taught me, and continue to teach me these lessons.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US. Joni is a product management consultant and coach with 30 years of experience. “I

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Ivy has also been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Kim is currently consulting for clients in varied industries including aviation, consumer electronics, and retail.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Michael leads product and design at Medium, which he joined when it acquired his startup Talkshow Industries. See you in July!

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on March 30th, 2021 in collaboration with EcoFuel : a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to seed stage cleantech startups.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Singapore government is trying to bring talent back to the local market and coach organisations on how to adopt a more merited-based approach.”. Most of Barry’s consulting work comes from Fortune 500 companies or from heavily funded scaling startups in San Francisco and around the globe. Adapting to Changing Circumstances.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 5, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And even though the UK is leaving the union, the UK government has confirmed that the GDPR is here to stay. An existing employee can serve as the DPO, or you are also allowed to get an external consultant in to cover this role. This can be an existing employee, or you can hire an external consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

First published in 1997, the bestseller has influenced several generations of entrepreneurs, startup founders, and tech enthusiasts. And that opens the space for newer, faster, agile startups to serve those neglected customers, gain traction, and challenge the bigger businesses. It’s kind of a modern-day cautionary tale.

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Brian Balfour

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

How long have they been in a leadership role at this company? If you scroll to the bottom of my Work with Me page, you can see that I outline the principles that govern my team at Reforge. Research the following topics: Search LinkedIn to identify the leaders on the team you would be joining. You don’t focus on the data.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. Sales: Be able to route prospects to our self-service flow or the most appropriate team within Sales, e.g. startups, SMB, MME, based on well-defined customer segments. Drive internal adoption.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. About a decade with with big software companies I did six startups of which four we file under good life learning and character building.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms. Adam: Box was quite large at the time it made this transition, but for a smaller startup, looking around the corner, how do they know that they’re both a good fit, and ready for a platform play? Ceci Stallsmith on how to define a platform.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This allows startups to obtain feedback and build their network, while advisors learn new tech, explore potential deals, and interact with like minded individuals. Selections were made following an extensive online consultation earlier this year with 125 of Holt’s professional advisors.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. From this education, the influence of elaborate management consulting style frameworks appeared, which frankly, stakeholders care very little about.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

No amount of wordsmithing will get people excited if they are exhausted Questions to ask about To your leadership team: How confident the organization is focused on the right things To frontline managers: Is there anything you’re worried about being true that is starting to be true?

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Bethany has been a firm believer in agile for many years and has been bringing the joy of lean, kanban, and scrum to the workplaces of many through thoughtful and direct communication and consultation. The second part of it is a lot of times company’s senior leadership don’t really like the idea. Upcoming Events. Funfetti Cake.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). I was initially brought in as a freelance consultant by Simon Nelson, who had been recently appointed by the OU as CEO of its new venture. I would ultimately forge a hugely productive working relationship with them as a product leadership trio.

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