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Skills and traits of elite product managers

CIO

IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies , in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. Much of a product manager’s job involves ensuring the various functions of a cross-functional team work well together.

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

These new building blocks of business include both tech and business pros, and they’re generally led by a product manager , who acts as the point person throughout the product’s lifecycle. Almost everyone we spoke to agreed that communications skills are a must when it comes to product management. “I

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI products.

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4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion

TechCrunch

We succeeded because we secured data through market research and used the data to inform our global strategy. Here are a few key strategies to achieving this kind of international growth. You may need to hire a research firm to accurately gauge the geographic market for your industry and product. Research your market.

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Meet Your Goals with a Practical Product Strategy

Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates

Whether you manage a feature, a product, or a whole suite of products, you likely have some goals that you're trying to meet. But do you have a strategy? Strategy and goals are different. It's your strategy that allows you to make decisions that help you meet your goals in the first place.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Facilitate developing self-organizing standards where team leaders, enterprise architects , and product managers promote best practices and establish design principles. But it totally kills IT culture when the CIO doesn’t shield teams from angry or disappointed business senior management and stakeholders.”

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4 strategies for setting marketplace take rates

TechCrunch

Tanay Jaipuria is a product manager and angel investor who writes a weekly newsletter on business and technology. Tanay Jaipuria. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Every marketplace or platform startup has to decide how much they should charge for transactions on their platform, known as the “take rate.”

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

In this webinar, we’ll explore the 4 key pillars that a value-driven product organization leverages to ensure they are connecting their strategy to execution to deliver business outcomes: The Product Roadmap (What it is and what it’s not). Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Don't miss King’s data expert (dare we say king?)

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Digital Adoption Platform Fundamentals: The Key To Product Innovation And Elevated CX

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

As digital transformation advances at a rapid pace, Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) have become essential tools for enhancing user experiences and redefining product management strategies. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

To understand how a great DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams, but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction, we first need to understand the relationship between DX and the Product Manager Experience!

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge. These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to product management.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Understand how your work contributes to your company's strategy and learn to apply frameworks to ensure your features solve user problems that drive business impact. Grow your user empathy skills: Better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

Our esteemed speakers will discuss the emerging trends shaping the future of product management and business intelligence. We’ll explore how recent developments are impacting strategic planning and decision-making processes, as well as practical strategies to leverage these trends to the benefit of your organization.