Free Product Managment Presentations Now Available!
Presentations that Dr. Jim Anderson deliver at second annual ProductCamp NYC workshop that was held in New York City on November 6th, 2010, are now available online.
Should I Jump? — New Video From Dr. Jim Anderson
Dr. Anderson recently addressed a management training program for new IT leaders. As a part of his presentation, Dr. Anderson told the story of the Piper Alpha drilling platform that bust into flames in the middle of the North Sea in 1988.
Dr. Jim Anderson Presents At 2nd Annual ProductCamp NYC
An “open source” product manager conference, ProductCamp, was held for the second time in New York City on Saturday, November 6th, 2010. Dr. Jim Anderson attended this event for the second time and once again presented.
Dr. Jim Anderson To Address The ITE
Dr. Jim Anderson has agreed to address the Colorado-Wyoming Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The Section is composed of more than 300 members in the field of transportation and traffic engineering.
4 Key Success Factors For Being A Service Product Manger
It’s hard enough to be a product manager for a “real” product, just imagine how hard this job gets when your company decides to switch over and start to offer service products. You’d think that a flexible product manager could just quickly adjust and that there would be no real difference between managing “hard” products […]
Japanese Sales Negotiation Secrets
All too often Americans (like me) think that we know everything. The reality is that our society has only been around for a bit over 200 years and we’re just getting started. That’s why it can be valuable for a sales negotiator to take a look at how societies that have been around for 1,000’s […]
London Stock Exchange Glitch – Could Cloud Computing Have Saved The Day?
Just when you think that you have the worst CIO job in IT, a story like this comes along! Awhile back the London Stock Exchange (LSE) experienced a full day outage. Traders who were ready to trade were unable to connect to one of the LSE’s main trading applications. No connect, no trading.
How Product Managers Can Get Better At Creating Powerpoint Slides
Yeah, yeah I know that everyone says that they hate Powerpoint – “death by Powerpoint” and all of that. However, the reality of modern Product Manger life is that we end up using Powerpoint to communicate a lot of information about our products and the current status of our projects. Thank goodness you took all […]
3 Skills That Most IT Leaders Are Missing
I’m guessing that you wouldn’t go to work naked. Then why-oh-why are you thinking about going to work as an IT Leader when you don’t have all of the skills that you’ll need to do the job correctly? I’m not sure if this is going to make you feel any better, but it turns out […]
Just How Does One Create A Keynote Presentation?
Contact Blue Elephant Consulting today for a free consultation call in order to find out how our coaching services can help to make you or your team better at speaking in public. Tis the season for college graduations and I was recently asked to deliver a keynote speech as part of an engineering graduation ceremony. […]