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TEI 085: Managing product teams – with Todd Dewett, PhD - The Everyday...
Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to...
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TEI 086: Manufacturing serendipity, open innovation, and product management –...
You’ve likely heard of the curse of knowledge or sometimes it is called the curse of the expert. It occurs when our knowledge leads us down predictable paths, likely not considering other possible...
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TEI 087: Metrics and successful product management – with Saeed Khan - The...
I enjoyed a wonderful conversation with Saeed Khan. He started the On Product Management blog and has been a career product manager, working in Toronto, Canada and Silicon Valley. He is also a...
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TEI 088: Product management for preparing the next generation of innovation...
My son got to meet his heroes. Not sports players, astronauts, or Marvel comics characters. He met the people behind Youth Digital, his favorite source for online tech courses. We traveled to their...
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TEI 089: Intelligent disobedience for product managers-with Bob McGannon -...
Are there times that product managers need to be disobedient – not do what they were asked to do? To explore the topic I spoke with Bob McGannon who has great experience with this through the lens of...
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TEI 090: Agile product portfolio management- with Brent Barton - The Everyday...
We have explored the topic of product portfolio management in previous episodes, but not from an Agile perspective. That is the topic for this episode – Agile portfolio management. Each week I talk...
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TEI 091: How product managers can influence virtual teams – with Hassan Osman...
This episode is about virtual teams. Many of us are part of virtual teams and we have felt the pain of virtual teams that don’t work well. Virtual teams are becoming more common in organizations and...
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TEI 092: Innovation mantras from R&D-with Dana A. Oliver - The Everyday...
Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an R&D person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who has 30 impressive years of...
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TEI 093: Identifying the ideal customer – with Tom Schwab - The Everyday...
According to my guest, “Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer.” Of course, then my first question is how do we find the ideal customer for a...
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TEI 094: Creating product roadmaps for product managers – with Jim Semick -...
I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan, which creates roadmap software for product teams. Jim has...
View ArticleTEI 050: Use design heuristics to improve idea generation – with Seda Yilmaz,...
I've been highlighting aspects of Design Thinking in several episodes and I continue with this episode that considers how idea generation can be improved using design heuristics. I discussed the topic...
View ArticleTEI 051: Creating Strategic Narratives and Imagineering Your Innovation...
I learned what a Walt Disney Imagineer was when my kids started watching the Disney Imagineering videos about science and engineering. Imagineers are known as the dreamers, doers, and the masterminds...
View ArticleTEI 052: The Simple Approach for all Product Managers and Innovators to be...
Great product managers must interact with people across the organization and possess the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, including the very top of the company. Further, they are...
View ArticleTEI 053: The 26 Most Important Concepts for Product Managers and Innovators –...
Welcome to the one year anniversary of this podcast. I'm excited to review the key concepts I found most useful for product managers and innovators from the last 52 episodes. I heard Tim Ferriss do...
View ArticleTEI 054: 5 Steps for selecting the best product ideas – with SVP Peter Duggan...
The discussion with my guest is about selecting ideas to be developed into products. Many organizations encourage employees, partners, customers, and other stakeholders to provide ideas for products,...
View ArticleTEI 055: Solving challenges organizations create with product management and...
Rich Mironov is a legend in the world of product management. He is the founder of Product Camp, a collaborative unconference for product managers and marketers that has spread across the world. He also...
View ArticleTEI 056: 5 steps to becoming an innovative company – with innovation VP...
Most companies talk about wanting to be more innovative, but few take the steps needed. In this discussion, I discovered the five steps organizations can take to be more innovative, from someone who...
View ArticleTEI 057: Applying the Jobs-to-be-Done Framework – with Chris Spiek - The...
The Lean Startup approach has brought a lot of visibility to the importance of getting out of your office and interacting with actual customers. And you do that so you can understand the details of...
View ArticleTEI 058: How to 5X your product management career- with Allan Neil & Chad...
I have a special guest today from the Great White North. It is cold at home in Colorado as I write this, but it was much colder at Allan Neil’s home in Toronto, Canada. Allan is a fellow product...
View ArticleTEI 059: Leading product teams and scaling a business- with Mike Paschal,...
Leading engineering teams from a strategic perspective of creating competitive products can be the source of a company’s growth. I interviewed Mike Paschal to explore this dimension of product...
View ArticleTEI 060: Design Thinking for greater innovation – with IBM Design Director...
I expect you’ll enjoy this wonderful discussion with the world-wide director of design at IBM, Karel Vredenburg. In this role, he leads design efforts, applying Design Thinking. He also conducts...
View ArticleTEI061: Product managers are uniquely prepared to transform organizations for...
Most people, when asked, would share they want to work in a better organization. And, most organizational leaders would like to improve their company. How to accomplish both objectives is answered by...
View ArticleTEI 062: Stage-Gate, agile Stage-Gate, and innovation tools used by 80% of...
One of the frequent topics I am asked about is processes for new product development. Sometimes the topic is approached from the perspective of an innovation framework, which includes how ideas are...
View ArticleTEI 063: Product management in large and small companies – with Ellen Chisa -...
Product management work changes from company to company and from one industry to the next. A key factor influencing the work is the size of the organization. Product managers at a large company like...
View ArticleTEI 064: Help your product team go fast using Lean Startup practices – with...
Product managers and innovators are using Lean Startup practices to create products customers love. But, many product managers are still learning about the right ways to apply Lean Startup to their...
View ArticleTEI 065: Keeping innovation simple – with Brad Barbera - The Everyday...
Just about every CEO talks about innovation but making it happen in their organizations is not easy. My guest agrees – stating that innovation is not easy, but it is simple. And, to show us how simple...
View ArticleTEI 066: Conducting customer research – with co-founder Jane Boutelle - The...
Need a better customer research approach? This is the interview to listen to. My guest has an impressive background in product management, having served in product manager roles at Apple, Intuit, and...
View ArticleTEI 067: Master the product manager interview – with interviewing coach...
In this interview you are going to learn simple structures for answering product management interview questions. This is useful for anyone wanting to start a career in product management or making a...
View ArticleTEI 068: Making product concepts easy to understand- with Lee LeFever - The...
Product managers must be effective communicators. We have ideas and product concepts to share, but the best idea will fall flat if not properly explained in terms our audience understands and...
View ArticleTEI 069: 4 reasons you should expand to an educational market- with Product...
If you want your own BB-8 droid, you can buy one from Sphero, a company in Boulder, CO. BB-8 is the adorable droid in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. It is a round ball that rolls across the ground with...
View ArticleTEI 070: Innovation and product management at Chick-fil-A – with Steve...
I visited a few dozen Chick-fil-A restaurants across several states while I was on a year-long RV trip interviewing innovators. It was one of several restaurants I frequented. I was surprised and...
View ArticleTEI 071: How product managers can conduct Voice of the Customer research-...
This discussion is about Voice of the Customer (VOC). When it comes to VOC experts, there are only a handful of people that match the experience of my guest today, helping hundreds of companies with...
View ArticleTEI 072: The 7Ps of successful consumer products – with designer and CEO...
My guest, Tracy Hazzard, is known as the "Product Whisperer." She is CEO of industrial design firm Hazz Design and the co-designer of many consumer products you buy at retail stores every day. Tracy is...
View ArticleTEI 073: The pulse of product management and 4 skills that match a 25%...
I have a great guest, Rebecca Kalogeris, to help us understand the pulse of product management. We discussed a number of factors, such as what department product management reports to in companies and...
View ArticleTEI 074: Content Marketing for Product Managers – with Jerod Morris - The...
The topic for this episode is one I have wanted to explore for a long time - the connection between product management and content marketing. If you look at a recent marketing textbook, you'll see...
View ArticleTEI 075: Building product lifecycle excellence – with Kimberly Wiefling - The...
This episode is about the product lifecycle and developing products customers want. As the pressure to get products to market faster increases, little room is left for learning through mistakes. My...
View ArticleTEI 076: Effectively pitching your ideas and influencing others – with Nancy...
The 2016 Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey identified four skills that are responsible for a significant increase in personal income. Product managers that excel in these four areas earn...
View ArticleTEI 077: Scaling lean product management – with Ash Maurya - The Everyday...
I'm bringing back an incredible guest who I first interviewed way back in episode 10 - one of the first interviews I did. He wrote the step-by-step guide for implementing Lean startup practices, titled...
View ArticleTEI 078: Traditional vs Agile project management for product managers–with...
Project management is an important tool for product managers and an area where we have choices. I often hear Agile practitioners talk about the evils of more planned methodologies, like Waterfall and...
View ArticleTEI 079: Cross the chasm using the target market model – with Chasm...
I read Crossing the Chasm when it was published in 1991. The third edition was released last year, with updated examples of how companies successfully increased the market for their new products. The...
View ArticleTEI 080: Innovate like a startup – with Michael Docherty - The Everyday...
When established companies decide they need to be more innovative, they often talk in terms of acting more like a startup. But acting like a startup is much more challenging in reality, especially for...
View ArticleTEI 081: Innovation Wars & creating products customers want – with Scott...
How can product managers help their organizations become more innovative? That is the topic of this discussion with the author of Innovation Wars: Driving Successful Corporate Innovation Programs.The...
View ArticleTEI 082: Design Thinking and Action Learning for product managers – with...
Product management is about change - the change that creating new products involves. Along the way, product managers need to learn about customers and their needs, consider problems from different...
View ArticleTEI 083: Trend-driven innovation for product managers – with Max Luthy - The...
Trends can be a product manager's best friend. They can propel products, increasing adoption by customers, or if misread, they may have costly consequences of wasted resources, too much inventory, and...
View ArticleTEI 084: Product portfolio management – with Carrie Nauyalis - The Everyday...
Product portfolio management is concerned with selecting the right products to develop, making trade-off decisions, and generally maximizing the value of the product portfolio. It is an important...
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TEI 095: Product line roadmapping for product managers – with Paul O’Connor -...
The last episode was on the topic of product roadmaps and today we extend that topic by considering product line roadmaps – roadmaps for product lines and product families. The person who has turned...
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TEI 096: Conjoint analysis for product managers- with Brian Ottum, PhD - The...
This episode is about market research – what’s in your toolbox for conducting consumer and market research? Does it include Conjoint Analysis? Well, if not, it will after you listen to this episode. To...
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TEI 097: How product managers pitch and sell ideas to managers – with Chris...
The topic of this episode is another in a series of interviews I’m doing focused on the four skills that enable a 25% higher income for product managers and increasing their influence. The 4 skills...
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TEI 098: When product managers’ good ideas are not enough-with Samuel...
I have a great guest for us to learn from – the author of a new book, The Agenda Mover: When Your Good Idea Is Not Enough. Doesn’t that sum up the challenge of being a product manager – when your good...
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TEI 099: Speaking with confidence and gravitas – with Caroline Goyder - The...
Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don’t? According to my guest, the secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas. With...
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