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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. Background. As a result, our backlog decreased by 50%.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

Joining us is returning guest, Carmel Dibner, who is a principal and co-owner at Applied Marketing Science (AMS), where she has helped companies uncover critical customer insights to improve products, services, and customer experiences.Before moving to consulting she was in brand management at Unilever.

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Solving Product Development Challenges With Product Review

Mind the Product

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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How to Make Product Management for Enterprise Systems Work

Mind the Product

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer.

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Problem Solving as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

On one hand, everybody expected me to focus on the problems that will help them to succeed in their workflows or function, and on the other hand, I had limited time to give all the problems their due attention it. Therefore, it was important for me to be aware of the following three things: 1) Where should I start? 2) What should I solve?

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Applying Product Management to Web Design in a Multiscreen Era

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer.