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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO."

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

And it’s an advantage that traditional corporate learning platforms simply can’t replicate. Last year Deloitte reported that the half-life of skills has fallen to five years, meaning the average person will need to retrain or reskill up to 10 times over the course of their working lives. A localized approach to growing internationally.

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348: How product managers can help to future-proof organizations – with Jonathan Brill

Product Innovation Educators

A lot of business schools teach tools like Six Sigma or Extreme Programming; the founders of those frameworks understood a problem and created a recipe to solve it, but when a disruptive event like COVID, a financial crisis, or a new technology happens, the recipe doesn’t work anymore. 9:02] Tell us more about Awareness.

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Strategies to mitigate AI security and compliance risks

Modus Create

Strategies to mitigate AI security and compliance risks By William Reyor Posted in Digital Transformation , Platform Published on: November 7, 2024 Last update: November 7, 2024 According to McKinsey, 65% of executives report that their organizations are exploring and implementing AI solutions.

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Product Experimentation Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Jon Noronha

Mind the Product

Jon Noronha joined the product team for Microsoft’s Bing search engine in 2011 when the product, as he puts it, was “in a big hole” As the years went by, however, that turned around, and in late 2015, Microsoft reported that Bing had become profitable. Use a testing platform that’s built to consider nuances in the data.

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Product management, fast and slow

Intercom, Inc.

But the reason it resonated so much with readers was its powerful core finding – our brain has two very distinct modes, or systems, of thought: System 1 (fast, automatic, and impulsive) and System 2 (slow, conscious, and deliberative). Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions. Why does it matter?

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

The way business was done changed drastically in the 90s, and not just because of the rapidly-improving technology. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. It was the 90s that produced several lightweight software development methods. Tech Highlights of the 90s ??