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LEGO Education Product VP on Leading Product in the Education Space

In this episode of Product Talk with Melissa Pickering, Andrew Sliwinski speaks on leading product in the education space.

Customer focus

Data & Analytics

Design Great Products

Market, Competitive & User Research

Technology

The Wharton School Professor of Marketing on the Essentials of Customer Centricity

The Wharton School Professor of Marketing Peter Fader shares insights on the nature of customer centricity and key factors in implementing it successfully.

Build Great Products

Northeastern University Distinguished Professor on Marketing in a Recession

Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Koen Pauwels shares insights on best practices for marketing in a recession.

Build Great Products

Growth & Scale

Product Marketing

Boston University Associate Professor on Transforming Products into Platforms

Boston University Associate professor Andrei Hagiu shares insights on three key methods for transforming products into platforms.

Best Practices of a Great Product Leader

Career Growth

Leadership

Ahead of Product Co-Founder on Scalable Leadership Frameworks

Ahead of Product co-founder and coach, Katerina Suchkova, on scalable leadership frameworks to start thinking like a leader

Learn Something New

Morning Brew VP of Product on Redefining the Media Company Playbook

Morning Brew VP of Product, Emily Diamond, shares insights on how content and product management interplay in a media company.

Learn Something New

BetterLesson SVP on Building Quality Edtech Products

BetterLesson SVP Amber Orenstein shares how her teaching background provided a different perspective to building quality edtech products.

Product Design

Discovery Education CPO on Edtech Product Design with an End in Mind

Discovery Education CPO Pete Weir explores how to work backward on edtech design with stability for diverse learners.

Customer focus

Design Great Products

Product Design

Fmr LEGO Education Head of Product On Focusing On Play Within Your Product

Melissa Pickering, former LEGO Education Head of Product joins us to talk about focusing on play within your product

Org Structure Matters

Strategy & Roadmaps

Stanford Professor of Organizational Behavior on Strategy Mapping

Professor Jesper B. Sorensen from the Stanford Graduate School of Business shares insights on visual thinking and strategy mapping.

Product Design

Strategy & Roadmaps

Three Mistakes to Avoid When Building Minimum Viable Products

CollegeVine Product Lead David Prentice latest article breaks down critical mistakes to avoid when building minimum viable products.

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OneClass Product Director on the Ramp Framework to Solve User Roadblocks

OneClass Product Director Katherine Chong walks attendees through the ramp framework to better identify user roadblocks.

Customer focus

Product Design

Organize Your Product to Empower Your Users

CollegeVine Product Lead David Prentice shares how to balance product structures with micro and macro organization in order to empower users.

Customer focus

To Discover Hidden Customer Problems, Try Defining Solutions First

CollegeVine Product Lead David Prentice on how product managers can create better products by defining solutions through design ideation.

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Optimization, Validated Learning, and ‘The Lean Startup’

CollegeVine Product Manager, David Prentice, on following the Eric Ries 'The Lean Startup' and taking care not to overlook validated learning

Digital Transformation

Macmillan Sr. Product Director on Digital Innovation: Transforming Access to Educational Materials (Part 3)

Neha Taleja, Fmr Senior Director of Product at Macmillan, shares 4 tips for being a great product manager. Keep learning and be curious.

Digital Transformation

Macmillan Sr. Product Director on Digital Innovation: Transforming Access to Educational Materials (Part 2)

Neha is the Senior Director of Product at Macmillan. In this article, she share tips on getting involved with product development.

Digital Transformation

Macmillan Sr. Product Director on Digital Innovation: Transforming Access to Educational Materials

Neha Taleja leads start-up products tasked to address challenges related to access to higher education and digital innovation.

Best Practices

Fmr Homer CPO & Co-Founder on 3 Mistakes and How We Overcame Them

Brit Myers, COO of GameClub, shares his biggest mistakes at Homer and what lessons he learned from them as he found product-market fit.

Data & Analytics

Design Great Products

KPIs, Metrics & North Stars

Homer Co-Founder on Measuring Success With Data

Data metrics enable product teams to understand customer preferences and optimize product performance to generate revenue more efficiently.

Best Practices of a Great Product Manager

Product Management: Experience Loop

Shiren Vijiasingam is a product leader who is dedicated to creating solutions that connect with users on a human level. Building an action plan to identify and solve friction is critical to improving the overall customer experience with products. Shiren presents a five-step model that takes a comprehensive view of the customer journey to create solutions that enhance the product experience.

Best Practices of a Great Product Manager

Product Management: Mode Shift Friction

Shiren Vijiasingam is a product leader who is dedicated to creating solutions that connect with users on a human level. Friction is often viewed as a negative, but it can also create opportunities for new solutions to emerge. As Shiren explains, there are creative ways to turn customer pain points into innovative enhancements that bring joy to more customers.

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