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. MORE
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. MORE
For example, we visited the Government Digital Service and the Guardian. Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. MORE
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Think about how quick we often are in criticizing government officials that take decisions we disagree with. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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The reach of agile development is extending, and what started as the domain of younger, smaller companies is now on the radars of everyone from government agencies to larger enterprises. As part of a list of summer reading recommendations for marketers recently published by Forbes, Juniper Networks CMO Mike Marcellin named “Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative” as his pick. MORE
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? MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
The guest can be from any background – technology, entertainment, government, the arts. Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. MORE
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. MORE
Johanna clarifies what constitutes the “rules” of a system, and then gives a great example of a financial product that was heavily impacted by government regulation. MORE
At ProductTank Oslo, Tanuja Gopal showed how we can use the power of influence in our day to day work, drawing on her experience as the Director of Application and Data Services for MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and previously as a serial CIO in government organisations. MORE
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 MORE
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! MORE
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). MORE
Traditionally farmers could fix most things themselves, or call in a local repair guy, but today – because of the increased complexity of the product and the licence agreement governing it – you have to call in the John Deere certified mechanic. MORE
There are always more ideas than resources, whether at home, in your business, or in the government. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to a hundred other good ideas.” MORE
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’. MORE
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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. MORE
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What you might often find though is that the task of reporting ‘owned’ by an internal governance role, where the responsibility falls outside the scrum team. At the very least, there should be some very real and direct link between the governance engine and the scrum master role. In May 2008, I authored an article that discussed the day-to-day challenges facing the Product Manager in the Agile world. MORE
To what extent is your business model governed by local regulations? Christian Miccio (VP Product at First Data) and Kana Butkovic (Programme Director at First Data) set out a detailed strategy for launching physical products on an international scale. MORE
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government. Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve probably heard about a company called Theranos. They are a Silicon Valley startup that attracted a lot of attention. They claimed that they had invented a product that with just a minute amount of blood from an individual could run a large number of health tests. This blood testing device was called Edison. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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? MORE
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. MORE
In the late 1920s, 90% of men read the cartoons on the front page, compared to just 12% reading the local government news. Quite a bit, it turns out… Usage data … user needs … segments & personas … ethnographic user studies… I’d always reckoned these concepts and techniques came about in the ’70s and ’80s, as modern product design took hold. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
There are certain verticals and government-backed industries that aren’t viable targets for an overseas audit, because the effort to convert outweighs the benefit. “I wake up in a sweat. My pillow's damp and I don't know what day is. Did I miss the match? Am I playing later? MORE
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. MORE
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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?
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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.
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The reach of agile development is extending, and what started as the domain of younger, smaller companies is now on the radars of everyone from government agencies to larger enterprises. As part of a list of summer reading recommendations for marketers recently published by Forbes, Juniper Networks CMO Mike Marcellin named “Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative” as his pick.
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To what extent is your business model governed by local regulations? Christian Miccio (VP Product at First Data) and Kana Butkovic (Programme Director at First Data) set out a detailed strategy for launching physical products on an international scale.
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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.
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There are certain verticals and government-backed industries that aren’t viable targets for an overseas audit, because the effort to convert outweighs the benefit. “I wake up in a sweat. My pillow's damp and I don't know what day is. Did I miss the match? Am I playing later?
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For example, we visited the Government Digital Service and the Guardian. Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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