Productized Podcast

In this Podcast our host André Marquet talks with Chris Hull is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Otus, a Chicago-based edtech company. After 13 years as an educator, Chris wanted to minimize the chaos of disconnected edtech tools for K-12 administrators, educators, students, and their families. Otus is one system to teach, grade, analyze, and plan. -- TIME NOTES: [1:20] Who is Chris? [2:52] Inspiration to become a teacher [4:50] The drive to co-create otus - student performance platform [13:02] Otus Team - from education to entrepreneurship [16:49] Customer Target of the Platform [19:57] Expansion Plans to other languages [22:40] Develop each kid's roadmap. How to unlock a kid's superpower? [25:09] What do you think everyone needs to know about K-12? [30:03] What’s your current product team North star? [34:45] Relationship between educators and edtech entrepreneurs [38:30] How do you see the future of edtech? [42:23] Do you believe that K-12 education can be productized? -- The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to today’s Podcast visit https://buff.ly/3xP53Yo

In this Podcast our host André Marquet talks with Howard Tiersky, WSJ Bestselling Author, Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencer, and CEO of From, the Digital Transformation Agency. Howard is on a mission to help brands navigate digital transformation—to re-invent their customer journeys to earn the love of today's "Digital Customers." [2:37] Howard's new book “Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance” [6:00] How Howard tried to fit all the secrets to digital transformation on the book [7:21] Superpowers of a Digital Transformation leader [8:21] How Howard started his career as a theater director and web designer [11:38] What is the top-secret superpower that came out from those days as a Director and as a Web designer [13:20] 3 levels to achieve customer love [19:37] Major customer pains, and how digital as overcome that [22:23] Experience and Process Redesigning the Avis app [27:33] Working with some of the largest brands in their digital transformation [37:04] What do you think is the biggest digital transformation trend we’re seeing today and we’ll see in 10 years? [41:45] The Main Skill of a Digital Transformation Team The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to today’s Podcast visit https://buff.ly/2SlnyEK

Chapter 1. Who's Anita? [02:05] Anita's background and how did she got into Product Management [04:53] Anita's role at Farfetch Chapter 2. Sustainability to your life [08:40] How sensitive do you think consumers are about sustainability in fashion? [11:25] How far ahead or behind do you think the luxury fashion industry is in general in terms of sustainability? Chapter 3. Farfetch's approach [19:20] What's Farfetch's vision regarding sustainability? And as a marketplace, what can be Farfetch's role on this sustainable walk? Chapter 4. The punchline: The mindset and milestones [23:40] What should be the PM mindset to work in sustainability? [26:45] How do you measure your progress towards sustainability? Do you have milestones? [28:00] Q&A [35:30] Bucket List

Lauren Isaacson is a market and user experience research consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia. She began her career doing research and brand strategy for digital ad agencies in Los Angeles, California, but left that world behind and gravitated towards a career in research after moving to Canada in 2009. Since then, she has been an in-house research team of one for Motion Canada and TELUS Digital, an interim leader of the market research department of BC's hydroelectric utility, a subcontractor for agencies such as Blink, Macadamian, and Applause, and a direct consultant for small start-ups, national organizations, and anything in-between. Time Notes: [1:58] How is Lauren taking adventures during this crazy year  [3:12] 1% for the Planet: Lauren's a mission with the Environment [5:40] From the advertising world to Research [7:05] "I love what I do because I am good at it" [7:12] The birth of Curio design [8:00] What are the main needs of companies? Do you feel a big difference between small and big companies? [13:30] "People don't get how difficult it is to get get the right people, especially in B2B"  [15:46] The difference between physical and digital products [18:12] Latest research trends and innovations  [19:30] Chasing Rabbits - Turning Research Insights Into Informed Decisions. [21:50] Passions and projects, travels  [22:20] Lauren's Bucket list Trip [23:58] "It's hard to have a good Work-Life when you love your job" [24:50] Plans for the future. [25:10] Q&A: What are the essential characteristics that someone who wants to start a business needs to have? Medium Post 👉 https://productized.medium.com/podcast-with-lauren-isaacson-875b5ed9f894

Kandis O’Brien the co-founder of The SIX, a strategy and innovation consultancy that empowers enterprise clients like Google, Salesforce and Cisco and pioneering startups like Alucio to ideate, collaborate and execute quickly and efficiently for sustainable growth. Kandis is passionate about helping organizations build better products, services and organizational cultures. She helps to leverage human-centred approaches including Design and Vision Sprints. She is also the organizer of Design Sprint NY City, the official Google Design Sprints Global Chapter community for practitioners and facilitators. Show Notes: How is Kandis O’Brien dealing with the Covid’ pandemic impact on work and routine - [1:30] Work- Life Balance? Absolutely not! But people have found ways to be kind to each other and to be more flexible about schedules and interruptions - [5:05] Running the NY City Marathon- [6:56] What led Kandis to enter the world of Product Management? From Marketing to Product - [7:54] Kandis Experience in her company The SIX - [10:55] What have you learned about your leadership style – strengths or weaknesses – and how do you use those insights to be better? - [13:40] What is the most common problem, you see on a daily basis? - [16:00] Customer and market insights to make strategic decisions - [18:54] What MVP is going to allow you to deliver value quickly, to test your assumptions and to gain directional Insight? - [21:17] Difference between B2B Products and B2C Products - [23:33] Designing digital products vs physical products - [28:00] Redesign Your Organization for Innovation - [31:59] Kandis Bucket List - [36:00] Q&A: How does Design Thinking and Sprints help build scalable Products? Do these techniques apply to Platform Products? - [37:17]

[02:07] Covid's impact on Gibson's work and routine. [4:10] Ask Gib - Gibson's new creative endeavors. [4:38] Self-improvement opportunities Gibson found on a climbing expedition in Alaska. Climb Mount Hayes, which is a 14,000-foot peak in the middle of Alaska [5:10] Lesson 1 from the climbing expedition [7:11] What Led Gibson's Career Toward Product? [9:05] Six key ideas of Leadership [10:44] "Don't worry too much about your weaknesses. Companies are hiring you for your superpowers, those two key skills that really make you special." [11: 55 ] Hacking your product leader career Masterclass with Gibson Biddle [15: 29 ] Personal board of directors - a collection of mentors and peers that you can talk [18: 35 ]How to build my personal board of directors? [24: 00 ] Advice for people aspiring to become VP of Product [26: 12] Cross-functional leadership [28: 12] "The job of a product leader is to delight customers in hard to copy margin, enhancing ways and margin Hanson just means make money" [33:57] Netflix culture [35:17] Product management strengths and or disruptions for this year and next year [39:24] How do you discover your superpowers? "What are you so passionate about that you think about it two in the morning and that will drive your intellectual curiosity, your persistence. That's what makes people great at their job!" [45:55] "How do I feel about my relationships, community, and social? How do I feel about the degree that I can set my own course for autonomy? How do I feel about the opportunity for mastery and learning in my job? How do I feel about my opportunity and doing my job to provide purpose and meaning?" [47:10] How to Define Your Product Strategy

Teresa Torres teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises and has taught over 6500 product people core discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy. She’s the author of the upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org.

Dan Olsen is a product management trainer, consultant, and author. At Olsen Solutions, he works with CEOs and product leaders to build strong product teams. His clients include Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Box, and Walmart. Dan is the author of the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook. Prior to consulting, Dan was a product leader at Intuit and several startups. Dan lives in Silicon Valley, where he founded the monthly Lean Product Meetup which has over 10,000 members. https://productized.medium.com/productized-podcast-with-dan-olsen-9862f0989608 👉 Show Notes [02:20] Covid’s impact on Dan Olsen’s work and routine. [03:20] Countries where Dan sees most Product Culture Growth [04:25] Who should read “the lean product playbook” today? Who is the book addressing today? [08:40] Dan’s thoughts on the emergence of No Code. [09:24] How to Build the Right Think for the Right People [11:30] The beginning of Dan’s career, in the defense industry, designing nuclear submarines, the Virginia class submarine. [17:24] How does product management in large firms like Google and Apple, differ from product management in other environments, and should the philosophy be the same? [21:26] Tips for people that want to get into product. [24:43] The Lean UX meetup in Silicon Valley organized by Dan Olsen [28:50] Q&A: Using Product Management Tools to Design Great Customer Experience [34:53] Q&A: Changing the mindset on the importance of PMs. How do we convince them to kind of give this opportunity to get more people to falling into the role earlier on, and not just when there’s already chaos? [40:30] Values design brings to the product and users' experience. [41:45] Q&A: Breaking into Product Management Roles: Product Manager vs Product Owner [45:00] Best interface to merge startups [41:45] Breaking into Product Management Roles: Europe vs the US ⚡ENJOY 30% DISCOUNT ⚡https://bit.ly/3fiOIVU

Paul is the ex-Chief Product Officer at Joyn.de, the streaming platform launched in Germany in June 2019. Paul has experience building and growing teams and products (from 0 to 10M+ MAUs) at Rocket Internet, namshi.com, and joyn.de and managing products at scale at the Play Store and on Google.com Search. Paul's background is mostly in consumer (e-commerce), media streaming, and search, with experience using ML to practically unlock user value.

Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built; two of these were companies she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies and speaks at conferences around the world. She founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is the author of an upcoming book titled Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. It's scheduled for launch in September 2021. She speaks nine languages while learning her tenth. Her work as a product leader is also heavily influenced by my having lived and worked around the world. Radhika has lived in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. In her book, Radhika will bring this global perspective. Check Her Masterclass: https://bit.ly/3tVafJj