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Government Related Topics 
User Research – Making it Work in Government – Katy Arnold (ProductTank London)
Mind the Product
MARCH 29, 2017
Katy Arnold, Head of User Research and Design at The Home Office, talks to ProductTank London about making User Research Work in Government. One of the first outputs of this department was a set of Design Principles which all future government services should aim to adhere to.
Supercharge your team’s motivation
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
There are organizations that advocate hiring the … Continue reading → Leadership Purpose accountability dedication motivation passion responsibility self-governmentThe most successful companies have motivated leaders, and those leaders inspire motivation at all levels of the organization. Is it possible to create an environment where great work happens and everyone is motivated?
What’s the ROI of Innovation? – David Binetti
Mind the Product
MARCH 10, 2017
This creates a “Risk Sigma”, which is a normalised metric, comparable across all your projects, and which enables corporate governance. There are strong benefits for both the innovator and the finance team concerned with corporate governance.
Scaling Lean Principles by Jeff Gothelf
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
You start looking at discipline and business unit silos, IT as a service provider, short term business value, annual planning cycles, incentive structures which are focused on delivery, and governance.
Organisation Design & Cognitive Science in Product Development.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 30, 2017
Nathan and his team at Nature of Work enable legacy companies to consider how to respond to these changes at governance level. Move governance-level decision making away from consensus decision making to consent-based decision making.
Optimize to be Wrong, not Right
Mind the Product
APRIL 6, 2017
Even worse, most still believe that the scope, time and budget served up by their Industrial-Age governance process is a proven approach to predicting success. Let’s be honest. We have no idea what is going to happen a year, a week, or even five minutes from right now.
Amsterdam product managers: who we are and how we work
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Note that we didn’t ask people to correct for the fact that they might work less than 40 hours a week (about 20% of the respondents work in a public company/government organisation which in the Netherlands typically means they have a 36-hour work week).
How to Deal with “Sinatra” Stakeholders
Folding Burritos
JANUARY 21, 2016
Think about how quick we often are in criticizing government officials that take decisions we disagree with.
Design Languages
Product Bookshelf
JANUARY 17, 2017
Rationalism gets its name from the geometric lines which govern its shapes. Design languages began with the industrial revolution as a response to the emergence of machine culture and mass production as it encountered traditional artisan aesthetics.
Innovation: Best Practice for Product Leaders
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
The government launched a National Innovation Strategy, a seven-year plan developed to make the UAE among the most innovative nations in the world. In a world where the pace of change is constantly increasing and becoming more complex, can you really afford to stay still?
TEI 082: Design Thinking and Action Learning for product managers – with Chuck Appleby, PhD - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators
Product Innovation Educators
JULY 25, 2016
He is a leadership and organization development consultant with over 30 years of management, consulting, and coaching experience in government, industry, and non-profits. Product management is about change – the change that creating new products involves.
Progress, Not Products
Product Bookshelf
MARCH 2, 2017
The title of the book refers to the idea that success with innovation is frequently characterized as primarily governed by luck. Use empathy and active listening to discover “jobs to be done”, the progress customers want to achieve in specific circumstances in their lives.
Interview: Advice for the Innovator’s Dilemma with Paul Young
bpma ProductHub
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Due to government regulations, execution and high standards of quality for their existing products is essential for their business. Interviewed by Lance Morganelli.
The Future of Work
The Product Bistro
JANUARY 17, 2017
The fall of the Soviet Union, and the Berlin wall was the beginning of the end of the unfettered defense spending, and me with my freshly minted Physics degree was finding that many of the usual jobs at the Government Labs were closed, that the major defense contractors were merging, and restructuring. Datestamp: 11/8/2016.
Taking Your Product Across Cultures by Lisa Long
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
Egyptian authorities used Facebook and Twitter to track down protesters’ names and round them up during the Arab Spring, while the Zimbabwean government has used Facebook to track down dissidents. “Be
Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators
Product Innovation Educators
AUGUST 19, 2016
Idea generator, collaborator, problem solver, pilot maker, team builder, resource leverager, … Interestingly, some state governments have CINO positions too. Read the description of a CINO for state government that applies well also to companies … [link].
6 Reasons Why Boston is a Great Place to be a Product Manager
bpma ProductHub
DECEMBER 12, 2016
HubWeek/a> celebrates Boston’s innovations across government, the nonprofit sector, healthcare, tech and more. Contributed by Steve Robins. The Boston area may just be the best place to be a product manager today. Here’s why. Reason #1: Boston is an Innovation Hub.
Building a Product Startup Within an Agency
Mind the Product
APRIL 19, 2017
There’s more to our product strategy than trying to avoid a sense of embarrassment, but it was in this context that we devised Trim, our content auditing and governance product. Every product comes with a tumultuous ‘origin story’.
The Best Product Managers are Great Communicators
bpma ProductHub
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
In that role communication is essential, whether I’m speaking with our volunteers, potential donors, the community, government officials, business leaders, or potential adopters. Interviewed by Oksana Reznichenko. Dinneen Grably graduated from Bridgewater State University with B.S.
Imagine What a Rock Star Product Manager Could Do With Healthcare Reform
High Octane Product Management
MARCH 30, 2017
There are so many parallels between a high-profile government program like healthcare reform and every product management fundamental ever conceived, a thought occurred to me: How great would the solution be if a rock-star product manager were leading the charge on healthcare reform? Put all your political leanings aside. This is about pure, practical, common-sense, good old-fashioned problem solving skills and how they lead to great solutions!
The Innovator’s Solution
Product Bookshelf
OCTOBER 30, 2016
Although innovation is frequently viewed as being governed by random chance, Christensen believes that the people who are in charge of selecting and shaping innovations and the forces that act upon them are the key to increasing the odds of success.
Technology-Powered Disruption
svpg
JUNE 28, 2016
Of course, in some respects we have seen remarkable progress here, in particular in the treatment of specific diseases, but in terms of general medicine it can seem like a hopeless quagmire of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, malpractice lawyers, food lobbies, and government intervention. Most people by now have read Marc Andreessen’s Why Software Is Eating The World.
Inspiration: Half the money I spend.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
And the many changes imposed upon you: competitive threats, new industry trends, and new government mandates. Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is, I don't know which half.—John —John Wanamaker.
The Solutions Maturity Scale for B2B
High Octane Product Management
JANUARY 2, 2017
You’re an industry solutions company if your target customers are first defined by an industry segment such as retail, healthcare, local government or sub-segments within a specific industry such as physician practices. Wealth made simple: news and articles from IRC Wealth. Your product management maturity is gauged by the manner in which your organization approaches the planning, development, marketing and sales of its products and services as business solutions.
Designing a platform business
Product Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 7, 2016
For producers, there must be some kind of access control which governs which producers are permitted to create value on the platform and which ones aren’t.
The Paint Stick and product expertise
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
I have a friend who has been selling to government agencies for years. I was staging my house for sale and, after we moved my son’s stuff out, we discovered his room was desperately in need of a new paint job. He had scuffed the paint while moving his musical equipment in and out over the years. So I went to the paint store, selected a gallon of egg-shell white, and then added a few foam brushes of various sizes to my shopping cart.
Invisible Engines
Product Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Platform Ecosystems is a vast textbook that covers all aspects of platforms from technology through governance.
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