Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 11, 2012

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Perhaps the one that comes most naturally is the management myth: product managers rarely manage the people or processes necessary for their products’ success. To succeed you need to build consensus and exert positive influence on the teams you work with. As you point out, it’s a key responsibility to navigate both.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 20, 2009

2 Responses Chelsea , on August 24, 2009 at 6:59 am said: what a sweet story, You must be very proud:-) X C Reply Stewart Rogers , on September 6, 2009 at 4:53 pm said: Not sure what to say, but this made me smile. Congratulations to your family. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 16, 2009

One Response Stewart Rogers , on May 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm said: Also worth noting that the player that takes the most shots is not always the most successful. Take inventory of the opportunities you have, decide which ones make sense, and take the shot. But sometimes they are. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Section IX: Team Building. Great leaders create great teams throughout the entire value chain. Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Want to find out?

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The specific duties of product managers may vary from one company to the next. However, the primary responsibility is the same: release successful products for your company. As a product manager you need work effectively with other teams and lead them to create successful products.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Dee Hock’s quote nicely defines the product management perspective. As part of my quarterly performance reviews with my employees I insist that they build both their product road maps and their own personal roadmaps. — are the most valuable asset you own. Nice quote!

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are there rules or guidance that you have established with your team?

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Much has been written about the importance of customer visits to the success of your products. 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 8, 2009 at 6:15 pm said: If travel is not an option there is nothing wrong with spending some time with Customer Visits cousin, Call Report.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. A team of U.S. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. You need an iPhone to look at existing (potentially competitive) apps so you can better understand your market(s) and write effective requirements that will move your product line in that direction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? It is the intensity of its people’s passion for innovation that animates IDEOs processes, he contends, forming a culture that’s “not typical, and not easy to emulate.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. We invite the entire product team to participate; if they have 15 or 30 minutes, they are encouraged to pop in, read some notes, and shift them to places that make sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. In this experiment, the researchers varied the list of features for the new product. Join the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Every leader is hoping for that next great idea, yet many executives still treat creative thinking as antithetical to productivity and control. Indeed, 80% of American and British workers feel pressured into being productive rather than creative. Here are a few guidelines for bringing out your team’s creative best.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Even if you don’t like seeing yourself on the screen, consider how this powerful tool might increase productivity and effectiveness for your business. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Use videoconferencing to help yourself resist multitasking, and to help your team and colleagues maintain their focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. These are typically brief, daily progress sessions through which an initiative team updates and coordinates efforts. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Designing the New Product.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo. Leading teams Risk management Strategic planning'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office — but at what cost? Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. by Joe Knight, Roger Thomas, and Brad Angus, with John Case.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. Click on a product and you can make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

More than 30 years after Drucker’s talk at NYU, the level of complexity confronting us has only continued to increase—or at least it feels to most managers like it has increased, given the outdated models and processes that most businesses tend to use (as both Steve Denning and Roger Martin have eloquently explained). What should it be?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The sidebar “Why We Need Fresh Blood” explains how diversity on any team often produces the best results. Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Coleman began blogging and soon his senior executives encouraged their teams to do so as well. Pilot: Identify pilot groups like Unisys did with the sales team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Management teams at such companies spend a lot of effort separating out the costs that truly fuel their distinct advantage from the ones that don’t. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. But it’s not good at innovation. The other economy—the Creative Economy—is an economy of continuous innovation and transformation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Most organizations, teams, schools, and families today still operate from a model of “command and control,” focusing on hierarchies and compliance from people. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ).

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