Global Product Management Talk
549 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratings#ProdMgmtTalk Professionals forwarding the movement for product excellence by design. Discussions about the art, craft and discipline required for products that contribute value. All aspects of customer development, user experience, product innovation, design, development, marketing and scaling. @ProdMgmtTalk Founded by @CindyFSolomon talking with thought leaders from Silicon Valley and beyond. @StartupProduct @ProductSummit Syndicating The Everyday Innovator with Chad McAllister.
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TEI 196: The messy middle of new product projects – with Scott Belsky
October 02, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes - 29.6 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Creating a new product starts with excitement and the thrill of doing something different. The launch of the product is surrounded by cheers. For many product managers, it is the be...
TEI 195: The Henry Ford for Product Managers – with Kristen Gallerneaux, PhD
September 25, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: I am on a road trip through the northeast of the U.S., talking with innovators and product managers. At the encouragement of a friend, I took my two kids to visit The Henry Ford, a...
TEI 194: A case study for disruptive innovation before being disrupted – with Ch
September 18, 2018 12:00 - 35 minutes - 31.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: I’m currently on a tour through the northeast of the US, visiting product managers and innovators. On my way, I stopped in Minneapolis and found an incredible innovation case study ...
TEI 193: Mistakes new (and not so new) product managers should avoid – with Cole
September 11, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Being a good product manager requires a diverse set of skills, including communicating, influencing, design, technology, product process, and business acumen. New product managers a...
TEI 192: Interviewing users & the art of asking the right questions – with Rache
September 04, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Creating products customers love. If you are like most product managers and innovators, that is your motivation to do great work — the work of product management. It is our common t...
TEI 191: How to create and share product vision
August 28, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Creating products customers love feels like juggling a whole lot of balls at one time. It can be chaotic. It’s also a good bet that people on your product team, and most certainly ...
TEI 190: The 6 dimensions of top achievers
August 21, 2018 13:00 - 38 minutes - 34 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Product managers need to be high achievers and many are. They are the driving force that discover unmet needs customers have, creating value through their product work. The work is ...
TEI 189: Building UX in product teams
August 14, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 29.6 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: UX is a hot topic and for good reason. The right UX skills on a product team can make the product more successful. The wrong skills waste money and time. Many product managers and ...
TEI 188: What product managers should do and not do when transitioning
August 07, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Learning how to best work with a product team or organization requires taking the right action and avoiding mistakes. Your opportunities to a make a good first impression are limite...
TEI 187: Seven ways acting techniques can help product managers excel
July 31, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: To be a great product manager, do you also need to be a great actor? No, but there are lessons from acting that will make you a better product manager. While I have no acting experi...
TEI 186: How product managers convince their managers to pay for training
July 24, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes - 39.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: We have a great topic for this discussion, addressing a question several Everyday Innovators have asked before, which is… “How do I get my manager to pay for product management trai...
TEI 185: Creating product love
July 17, 2018 13:00 - 36 minutes - 32.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: What products do you use that you love? Think of a product that you are glad to tell other people about. You share how it helps you solve a problem or get a task down. Or, maybe how...
TEI 184: What leaders need to understand about product management
July 10, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: If you have ever had to explain what you do as a product manager to people you work with, you are in good company. Most product managers find this necessary. Further, the role means...
TEI 183: Bad habits experienced product managers should avoid
July 03, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Experienced product managers benefit from what they learned from previous successes and failures. That experience is valuable. However, they can also pick up some bad habits along t...
TEI 182: What Sales wants from product managers
June 26, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Product management is a highly cross-functional role. Product managers work with product teams, R&D, engineering, marketing, finance, and others, but the one group that is most ofte...
TEI 181: Managing a product during the Maturity phase of the product life cycle
June 19, 2018 13:00 - 37 minutes - 33.2 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: In this discussion, we bring some mature thinking to the topic of maturity. The product life cycle consists of five phases — introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and retire. Suc...
TEI 180: Why and how APIs should be managed as a product – with Bryan Hicks
June 12, 2018 13:00 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Today’s topic is the product management of APIs — application program interfaces that enable software systems to share information and interact. In the past I have thought of APIs a...
TEI 179: The specific steps for finding product-market fit
June 05, 2018 13:00 - 49 minutes - 44.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Product management and innovation is about creating value for customers by solving a problem they have. We accomplish this through a tangible product or an intangible service. Done...
TEI 178: How to create a guided directed learning group to accelerate product ma
May 29, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.9 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: This is where you make your move from product manager to product master. A product master means having the influence you want and need to drive product strategy. Product masters are ...
TEI 177: Creating a hybrid Agile Stage-Gate process
May 22, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Many medium to large organizations are adopting agile practices, such as the use of Scrum. Some are having more success with the adoption than others. Most of these organizations ar...
TEI 176: How product managers can join the meaning revolution
May 15, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 36.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: This is where you make your move from product manager to product master. That is the move to being a product leader in your organization or the organization you want to work with. B...
TEI 175: Building B2B products – with Blair Reeves & Benjamin Gaines
May 08, 2018 13:00 - 38 minutes - 34.2 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: A new book by O’Reilly Press discusses product management for B2B software applications. It’s titled Building for Business. Much has been written about product management and the de...
TEI 174: Voice of the Customer tools product managers use
May 01, 2018 13:00 - 38 minutes - 34.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: How do you know what products you should build? What products will delight customers? The answer isn’t a mystery and has been expressed by numerous past guests. One that stands out...
TEI 173: The CORE connective skills of product management – with Matt LeMay
April 24, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 36.9 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: To be a successful product manager you need several competencies. We tend to be “T-Shaped” people with capabilities in several areas and much more depth in one area, such as develop...
TEI 172: Apple’s product development process and secrets to success
April 17, 2018 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.8 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: One of the things I enjoy doing is teaching product and innovation management university courses. My students often are in a leadership role in their organization and I’m helping th...
TEI 171: How any organization can leverage Design Thinking to produce change
April 10, 2018 13:00 - 38 minutes - 34.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Organizations are striving to get better at innovation. They know their competitors are doing the same. However, not everyone is having success with their efforts. One more recent p...
TEI 170: From concept to market leader – with product manager Jimmy Hooker
April 03, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 36.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople....
TEI 169: How to make product roadmaps not dangerous
March 27, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 37.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: My 12-year old son recently got a belt sander. My son is making a bookshelf and has a lot of sanding to do. The belt sander will do the work quickly. It is the right tool for the ...
TEI 168: Roles and responsibilities of product managers
March 20, 2018 13:00 - 42 minutes - 38.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: My mission is to inspire and equip product managers to have greater influence in their organizations and over product. I call this helping product managers to become product masters...
TEI 167: Value Innovation in 10 steps for product managers
March 13, 2018 13:00 - 48 minutes - 43.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: The last interview, episode 166, was a panel discussion with innovators at companies using Value Innovation to discover what customers really want before building a product. The pan...
TEI 166: How product managers innovate
March 06, 2018 14:00 - 42 minutes - 38.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: As product managers, our natural inclination is to solve problems. The Value Innovation Process teaches us how you get to that solution is just as important as the solution itsel...
TEI 165: 2018 Product Management Insights
February 27, 2018 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: The role of product manager formally dates back to the 1930s with its start at Procter & Gamble, but it has only been in the last few years that the role has become much better know...
TEI 164: How qualitative research drives product management & the next generatio
February 20, 2018 14:00 - 32 minutes - 29 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: One of my early product experiences began with user observations. I spent a week with customers, observing them in their environment, learning what they needed to accomplish and the...
TEI 163: Rookie mistakes in market research product managers must avoid
February 13, 2018 14:00 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: One of the skills you need as a product master is customer and market research. We explored this earlier with Gerry Katz in episode 071. It was an episode several listeners really a...
TEI 162: How product managers can influence people
February 06, 2018 14:00 - 44 minutes - 39.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: When I ask product managers why they got involved with product management and what they want from the role, a frequent answer is to have more influence. This also ranks as most impo...
TEI 161: Revisiting the GE Appliance innovation lab and extending it to your pro
January 30, 2018 14:00 - 40 minutes - 35.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Back in episode 110 we learned about FirstBuild, the innovation lab of GE Appliance. It allows them to test ideas and solve problems that would be considered too small or risky by G...
TEI 160: How LEGO used a low-risk, high-value approach to product management
January 23, 2018 14:00 - 34 minutes - 30.9 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Fundamentally, product managers should be driving success for their organization. We do that by providing customers value. The source of that value may be, and perhaps should be, cl...
TEI 159: Don’t make the customer feel anxious. The failure of Crystal Pepsi
January 16, 2018 14:00 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: No one and no organization has a perfect record when it comes to releasing new products into the market. Failures are frequent — around 40% or so depending on the industry — and the...
TEI 158: Effective virtual meeting skills for product managers
January 09, 2018 14:00 - 36 minutes - 32.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Every week I’m involved in virtual meetings and the same is true for many Everyday Innovators. If it’s not yet true for you, virtual meetings are almost certainly in your future as...
TEI 157: Big topics product managers encounter
January 02, 2018 14:00 - 40 minutes - 35.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the produc...
TEI 156: Medical device product management
December 26, 2017 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Several listeners have asked about medical device products and I searched for someone with deep experience in this area. I realize most of us are not involved with medical devices, b...
TEI 155: How product managers can get pricing right – with Tim Smith, PhD
December 19, 2017 14:00 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MBThe topic of this episode is pricing. It is a frequently asked about topic. Determing the proper price for a product impacts profit potential and sales volume expectations. I have a great guest to help us understand the components of a pricing strategy and how to price a product. He is Tim Smith, author of five books on pricing, Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Economics at DePaul University, and founder of Wiglaf Pricing.
TEI 154: Pitfalls that can trap new product managers
December 11, 2017 14:00 - 38 minutes - 34.4 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: A few months ago I was contacted by a product manager, Areo Wong, who works in Hong Kong. He described himself as a “newbie” with about one-year of experience. He has been struggling...
TEI 153: 3D printing and product management
December 05, 2017 14:00 - 40 minutes - 35.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: The discussion coming up is about the state of 3D printing for prototyping and additive manufacturing. 3D printing is evolving quickly with the capability to print in a wide variety...
TEI 152: The successful product manager is the self-aware product manager
November 28, 2017 14:00 - 39 minutes - 35 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: This may just be the most important interview yet. While it does not directly deal with product management concepts, it does deal with success concepts. The upcoming discussion is a...
TEI 151: What product managers should know about agile strategy
November 21, 2017 14:00 - 35 minutes - 31.6 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: How organizations can improve their product performance and overall performance is as important to product managers as it is to senior leaders. Making improvements has become more c...
TEI 150: What executives want from product managers
November 14, 2017 14:00 - 36 minutes - 32.5 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: This interview should be a fan favorite as many people have emailed me asking what executives want from product managers. My short answer is that executives and senior leaders want...
TEI 149: How to effectively lead innovators
November 07, 2017 14:00 - 46 minutes - 41.7 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: The state of innovation in organizations is unsettling. Executives overwhelmingly point to innovation as the growth engine for their organizations yet actual innovation performance...
TEI 148: Win-Loss analysis for product managers
October 31, 2017 13:00 - 35 minutes - 31.3 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: I love it when listeners suggest topics to explore on this podcast. One of those is win-loss analysis. This traditionally is considered a sales tool to understand why a customer chos...
TEI 147: Making organizations phenomenal
October 24, 2017 13:00 - 29 minutes - 26 MBGlobal Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Product management is about creating value for customers through the capabilities a product or service provides. That extends beyond actual features and encompasses tangible and inta...