Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. We also partnered with the marketing and finance departments to determine the financial feasibility of the product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Product Leadership Forum is a chance for senior product professionals to discuss the challenges they face in a safe environment. By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. Then give them space and time to build their own model of leadership.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In Part 2 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, we take a look at yet more insights shared by a group of senior product leaders during #mtpcon 2019 (if you missed Part 1, take a look here). Legal, finance, marketing should all be included in the solution. Finance are the Gatekeepers to Product Culture.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or (combining a series of similar conversations).

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

These require the relevant marketing, sales, support, legal, finance, and operations know-how—depending on the type of product and the company structure. Steve Haines, for example, writes in The Product Manager’s Desk Reference that product team members might come from marketing, finance, sales, operations, legal, and manufacturing (p.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

His background includes cross-functional experience in engineering, finance, pricing strategy, marketing and product leadership.  Terry has a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from Belmont University. Working in product management has given him a front roll seat in being part of this process. 

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, these stakeholders are likely to include representatives from marketing, sales, support, and finance for a commercial product. Remember that dealing with people issues is part and parcel of managing a product and that learning to constructively address disagreements and conflict is an important leadership skill.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“We’re having yet another existential crisis about who we are and what we do” Meanwhile, in company leadership meetings everywhere, this is what’s going on. Analytics, biz ops, marketing, sales, customer support, recruiting, finance, HR, I can keep going. We spent all our energy talking to ourselves.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Product Leadership. Kate has more than 20 years product management, leadership and marketing experience with the likes of Yahoo! Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In order to earn the trust of your leadership, you need to make sure you can deliver as effectively and efficiently as possible. You’ll be solving challenges that will go to the heart of your business such as finance, mergers / acquisitions and your cultural set up. Senior Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. For example, our Finance team is now able to confirm whether new customer growth is up in our target segments. Informing our approach to the market. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. An executive or someone in sales or finance cannot understand much from these tools about what product is coming out next month or next year.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 20, 2018

Arthur is the founder of Directive Communication Psychology and is ranked among the top-10 leadership thought leaders by Global Gurus. One of the projects I’m working on right now is building a leadership school in Malaysia. 22:34] Sixth dimension: Finances. Discipline. Motivation. Persuasion. Visibility. Innovation Quote.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need. IMHO, Product Leadership Experience Is Essential for Heads of Product. <rant> When hiring a CFO (aka Head of Finance), they ask about previous experience managing cash flow, payroll, and accounts receivable teams.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Thats why we conducted a survey of 200 product managers across industries like finance, healthcare, and tech to better understand the value of certification. Certification reflects dedication to growth, the ability to tackle complex challenges, and even readiness for leadership opportunities.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

or horizontally (IT, Sales, finance, HR, etc.). Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Strong leadership and influence from product management starts with superior market knowledge. Product Management & Product Marketing Leadership: How to Lead From a Position of Strength. Consider It!

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If As a company that’s become a leader in the product management space, many product managers turn to Pendo for best practices and thought leadership. However, his career took a different turn when he started at Intuit’s corporate and strategy side.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 4, 2020

He brings extensive financial and leadership experience that will help Intercom continue to scale and deliver on our mission to make internet business personal. As we enter our next era, now is the right time to bring on a strong finance leader with deep experience in growing companies at our scale.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Need to radically change a product experience – learn from Yahoo Finance rebellion. The product management team for Yahoo Finance spent the last 18 months conducting user research and learning how to improve Yahoo Finance. create a path to executive leadership. Watch the video above or at https://youtu.be/fnsrDIUWhTg.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

Modern customer engagement is a newer discipline than more established, traditional functions like HR, finance, or IT. It’s not surprising then that one of the key challenges companies are facing is finding suitable talent to fill critical roles – from leadership all the way to execution.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2018

The emphasis is on cross-functional team leadership and, ideally, this person approaches innovation with a business mindset. Provide leadership and direction to extended team members. Corporate Leadership’s Role. Core teams typically consist of up to eight members with a diverse set of skills and a core team leader. Conclusion.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Finance, HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance all need to be able to apply the entrepreneurial spirit to enable innovation. As we try to move beyond waterfall ways of working and being measured by outputs and long-term forecasts, what measures can we track that indicate our leadership buys into this new way of working?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

10:49] What are the challenges that leaders face in getting other senior leadership in the organization aligned around feature prioritization? When he joined, he discovered they were going to discontinue making V-8s because the procurement and finance team had decided they were too expensive and unprofitable.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 30, 2018

After all, humans are naturally prone to loss aversion and status quo bias , in life as well as finances. Detached from the leadership; removed from the sense of mission. It’s filled with the sense that we might make a mistake, might take a wrong turn, might end up full of regrets, and this can be a powerful deterrent.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

For a revenue-generating product, this might be someone from marketing, sales, support, and finance. These are the individuals whose input you need to make the right decision, who help you progress and offer the product, and who are affected by the product and its ability to create value.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2016

His first is Mantra Leadership and his second and most recent is Mantra Design. The reason I use them is that they allow for effective leadership communication. As they grow and get bigger, the innovative people begin to move out and more finance people come in. He has also written two books. Dana on LinkedIn. Innovation Quote.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Pretend you’re a hiring manager looking for the next PM to help drive your digital finance product. You have two candidates on your radar who have differing profiles, with each featuring their own respective repertoires: Product Manager A has 3 years of experience , with 2 of them focusing on a previous finance-related business.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Identify and execute action items required to establish stronger working relationships with engineering, marketing, sales, finance and customer success teams. Superior knowledge of the market/customers and strong leadership skills are top of the heap. This includes touchpoints with all other internal disciplines.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Managers who are able to clearly articulate what a strategy is, the differences between strategy, goals and actions are better able to manage people, build trust with leadership and achieve better outcomes. If you see poor value, you have a good business case to take to leadership on changing things. You can continue….

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 25, 2018

Product managers work with product teams, R&D, engineering, marketing, finance, and others, but the one group that is most often discussed, especially in B2B organizations, is sales. Product managers should work with sales leadership to manage the team’s expectations. Product management is a highly cross-functional role.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Essential functions like legal, compliance, marketing, and finance often get overlooked, considered as mere support rather than integral parts of the process. It’s about understanding the unique dynamics of cross-functional teams and adapting leadership styles accordingly, rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all management strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2023

Leadership support is key ‍ The success of any transformation is intrinsically linked to the level of support and trust you’ll get from the organisation’s leadership. Tip: If you don’t have the full support and commitment of the CEO and the entire leadership team, you should first work on this before doing anything else.

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