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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Within the budget. A Gentle Reminder : It is easy to have a hard-nosed focus on scope, time and budgets (and they are important too) but when you don’t think/plan/understand how the project/initiatives adds value to your customer’s business (or what is customer’s definition of value), you fail to create a positive impact.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Unflappable during crises.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They can get “lost” in the system and have to deal with more politics and tight budgets.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. How could this be?,

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