Product Management Leadership

The new business management model begins with customer focus and ends with customer satisfaction. Companies intent on tracking their customers changing requirements and improving their services are encouraging their employees to interact with customers on a frequent basis. In an effort to learn more about what customers want, they have demonstrated that strengthening relationships with customers is critical to sustained growth and profitability.

The old delineation of technology buyer and vendor is obsolete. There is a new definition for the technology elite - and you find them across industries and geographies. The 17 case studies and four guest columns spread through The New Technology Elite bring out the elite attributes in detail. Every organization will increasingly be benchmarked against these elite - and soon will be competing against them.

The intention, desire, and hope in writing the Product Team Coach is to assist you in breaking down your barriers to understand what creating and running a product entails. What makes this audiobook unique is that it is purposefully crafted not to ascribe to any one style of Agile or iterative delivery of work, but instead focuses on the outcomes of team collaboration. Let this audiobook help you enter into a clearer understanding of how to turn ideas into living, breathing products.

Pitch, Sketch, Launch extracts the techniques used to create today’s most beloved comedy shows and applies them to revitalizing software development. It shines a spotlight on the sketch comedy world’s ethos of feedback-driven product deliveries and its playful search for original solutions. Insightful interviews, best practices, and case studies demonstrate how creating comedy applies to designing top-tier software.

In Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age, Paul Miller, CEO and founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), and Shimrit Janes, DWG's director of knowledge, draw on patterns from forests and the natural world to illustrate a dynamic, vital, and more beautiful world of work that our hearts and minds know is possible.

Over the last decade and a half, agile project management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged agile with enviable results. Agile project management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about agile to reap the rewards?

Today's established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jump-start revenues - or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, says Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, legacy companies can renew themselves: by acquiring new technology and creating new business lines, relearning the need for speed, sparking innovation, and learning from failures.

La libertad de los trabajadores desata el éxito de las empresas. Existe una fórmula para que las empresas aumenten la productividad, las ganancias y el crecimiento que, sorprendentemente, no cuesta ni tiempo ni dinero. Se basa en la creencia de que, cuando las personas actúan con libertad por el interés de su empresa, los resultados se vuelven espectaculares. Freedom, Inc. revela los secretos de un paradigma empresarial exitoso basado en un entorno liberador, no jerárquico y de confianza que es el de empresas tan diversas como The Richards Group, Sun Hydraulics y Harley-Davidson.

Design Like Apple uncovers the lessons from Apple's singular approach to product creation, manufacturing, delivery, and customer experience. Learn how design can create a competitive advantage by delivering beauty, ingenuity, and charisma. Get guidance on how to nurture taste, talent, and a design culture at every level of your organization.

Few are prepared for managing across cultures, and the costs of cultural blind spots can spin out of control - from lawsuits to lost opportunities. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel developed a fool-proof methodology for managing successfully across borders.

Agile project management has grown in popularity over the past several years. Change is occurring so fast that many organizations are unable to keep up with the demands of a changing global world. Your ability to quickly change and adapt to your environment will make or break, not only your career but could be the deciding factor as to whether your company survives in the coming years.

You have a limited amount of time to create software, especially when you’re given a deadline, self-imposed or not. You’ll want to make sure that the software you build is at least decent but more importantly, on time. How do you balance quality with time? This audiobook dives into these very important topics. After listening to Scrum Essentials, you will know about scrum roles, sprints, scrum artifacts, and much more.

Building Digital Products is designed for the new Product Manager who feels in way over their head, the experienced Product Manager looking to step up his or her game, and the expert Product Manager who understands that there is always more to learn. Building Digital Products maps the full development cycle from problem identification to selling your solution, to understanding the right data to track.

The Lean Entrepreneur moves us beyond this myth. It combines powerful customer insight, rapid experimentation, and easily actionable data from the Lean Startup methodology to empower individuals, companies, and entire teams to evolve their vision, solve problems, and create value at the speed of the Internet. Anyone can be visionary.

Shift your strategy downstream. Why do your customers buy from you rather than from your competitors? If you think the answer is your superior products, think again. Products are important, of course. For decades, businesses sought competitive advantage almost exclusively in activities related to new product creation. They won by building bigger factories, by finding cheaper raw materials or labor, or by coming up with more efficient ways to move and store inventory - and by inventing exciting new products that competitors could not replicate.

For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed into the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations - people do.

Leadership can be a rewarding but sometimes isolating experience. All leaders need input and wisdom. Whether you are a business owner, commercial leader, or aspire to be one, this audiobook is for you. The author of most of the Proverbs, King Solomon is considered the wisest man who ever lived; he certainly was one of the wealthiest. His name is synonymous with wisdom.

This 2.5 hour audio program features CPA Sue Bishop, who has served more than 500 small business clients for the last 30 years. She describes how to decide what kind of business entity to be and the differences between sole proprietorship, LLC, Sub-S, and C-corporations. You'll learn about how to pay yourself and how to pay employees, how to deal with business registration and sales tax, how to set up business accounts, and keep records.

Trying to wrap your head around product management? You’re not alone. Product management is becoming an increasingly popular role across both startups and enterprise companies, but it’s still difficult to define. That’s because it doesn’t fit any of the traditional roles you may already be familiar with: engineering, business strategy, design, or marketing. Instead, product management draws on all these fields, forming a critical new discipline that has become increasingly important among startups and enterprise companies alike.

Do you feel confident that you have done the right analysis in evaluating your products and projects? Authors Frank A. Tillman and Deandra T. Cassone have developed a step-by-step guide to lead you through a process to ensure that you are confident that the products you are launching and projects that you are funding best support the goals and objectives of your organization. The approach described in the book has been used in numerous consulting engagements with Fortune 500 companies, the military and government agencies and has provided those organizations with a sound, decision-science ...