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Decision Time

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Nov 27, 2023 • 16min

Product managing the invisible infrastructure

Amol Borkar, Head of Computer Vision/AI products at Cadence Design Systems, discusses licensing processor IP for computer vision and the importance of invisible infrastructure. He highlights team alignment in product management and shares insights on time allocation and future product releases.
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Nov 20, 2023 • 24min

Time management as a mechanism for scoping and execution

In this episode with speak with Alex Klug - Head of Product, Data Science & AI at Hewlett Packard. We learn about the work HP is doing to enable the data science community. Notably, Alex describes how his team uses time as a key ingredient in decision making. Instead of scoping a project and then suggesting how much time it would take, Alex goes the extra step to look at time as the mechanism to determine how something can be built to validate early hypotheses and prove value.
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Nov 13, 2023 • 20min

The virtue of experiments in product strategy

In this episode we dive into the world of Know Your Customer solutions (KYC) with Danielle Ferry, Managing Director of Product Strategy at Moody's Analytics. Notably, Danielle and I discuss the virtues of an experiment based approach to product strategy and discovery.
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Nov 6, 2023 • 17min

The fine line between customization and finding commonalities in product development

In this episode we speak with Ben Kaplan, who heads up product at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Ben discusses the role clinical operations play in digital development to help make the patient journey better. And, he describes the challenge in building a platform that takes into account the nuance of different service lines, while ensuring a common set of features that facilitate scale.
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Oct 25, 2023 • 21min

Managing trust and customer expectations in large scale transformations

In this episode I speak with Harsh Singh - Global Head of Cloud Product Marketing at VMware. Harsh talks about two important ingredients necessary for great decision making - building trust internally with partner teams, as well as continuing to meet customer expectations during a large scale business transformation towards a SaaS based model.
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Oct 22, 2023 • 20min

Business model transformation as the driver for change

In this episode we speak with Jan Foo, Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics Product Management at VMware. Jan talks about the internal side of product management - leveraging internal data and tooling to empower the organization. Notably, Jan discusses how VMware's transformation from perpetual to SaaS business models serves as a key ingredient to product decision making at VMware.
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Oct 16, 2023 • 19min

Blockers and enablers - taking a portfolio lens to product decision making

In this episode we speak with Arun Nagarajan - Chief Product & Technology Officer at Evolve. Arun discusses the virtue of understanding how ideas and features fit together, before deciding what to build. Notably, understanding which features act as enablers to other features, and which act as blockers helped Evolve to figure out the best path to improving the customer experience.
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Oct 6, 2023 • 28min

A balancing act with Daniel Feldman

In this episode we learn what it takes to make decisions when your portfolio includes both software and hardware products. Daniel describes his decision process for ensuring his team takes the portfolio into account. And, Daniel shares how he frees up his own time while creating opportunity for his team.
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Oct 2, 2023 • 19min

Justin Anovick - Leading product with great communication and decision standards

In this episode we speak with Justin Anovick - CPO of Syndigo. We discuss how to identify value in absence of customer feedback, and a model Justin built to ensure everyone - from the executive team, to the product team - understood how decisions will be made. Also, Justin discusses the importance of communication and the critical role CPOs play in being the voice of the product organization.
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Aug 27, 2023 • 11min

Pascal - Digitizing the home purchasing experience

In this episode we speak with Alexia Assouline - Co-founder and CEO of Pascal - a vertical SaaS solution for the real estate industry. Alexia shares her vision for digitizing the home buying process - streamlining the work of real estate agents, and improving the experience for buyers. We also discuss key features built into Pascal, why Alexia chose to prioritize them and how she spends her time to get to the best business outcome.

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