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Don't Project Manage Your Digital Transformation: Try A Roadmap Mindset For Better Results

No matter where you’re at in your Digital Transformation endeavors, breaking from a Project Management mindset can be really difficult. Today we’ll explore the reasons why a Project Management approach falls short in the context of Digital Transformation, and why a Roadmap mindset is key to paving the way for success.

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What the Pandemic Taught Us About the Future of Digital Transformation: A Leadership Lesson

Many companies have started return-to-office initiates, mandated in-person attendance, and are shifting back to pre-pandemic norms. But is it the right play? Today’s article explores this misstep with specific regard to Digital Transformation and sheds light on the significant opportunity leaders have to reimagine the way teams work to build resilient structures that take them into the future.

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Driving Business Success through Digital Evolution 

Jen joins the Conquer Local Podcast to explore what it actually takes to drive business success through digital transformation — and why so many organizations fall short. The conversation digs into why companies that focus narrowly on technology miss the operational and human elements that determine whether transformation efforts succeed or stall, and what it looks like to take meaningful action instead.

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Land a Coaching One-Two Punch for a Knockout Transformation

When it comes to digital transformation, many organizations try implementing Agile and Product sequentially, doing one first then following up with the other. In either of these approaches, something is missing from the landing. Today's article shares a proven technique for layering in Product and Agile coaching to make digital transformation efforts significantly more effective.

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How to Empower Your Middle Management for a Successful Digital Transformation

This article explores strategies to unfreeze middle managers and empower these crucial leaders to support a shift to a product-led operating model and, ultimately, through a successful digital transformation.

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Navigating a Digital Transformation

Tuckpoint's Jen Swanson joins the Digital Velocity Podcast to unpack what digital transformation really means, and why most organizations are thinking about it too narrowly. Together, they explore how transformation has to run from the inside out, why prioritization is the hardest part of any change effort, and how the role of outside advisors is evolving.

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Clear Signs Your Product Leader Needs Help ASAP

If you’re at the helm of a product-led organization, it’s important that you recognize the signs that your product leaders and managers need extra support. In this article, you’ll learn the external and internal triggers that threaten a product practice and, as a result, your product managers’ and leaders’ ability to create effective outcomes for the org. 

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5 Transformational Leadership Characteristics to Look For in Your Next Hire

It’s critical to hire talent with transformational leadership characteristics. But how do you ensure your candidates embody the qualities that actually push transformation forward? And what kinds of questions reveal the skills that aren’t easily bulleted on a resume? Here we explore five transformational leadership characteristics to look for in your next hire, why they’re so critical to success, and how to uncover those qualities during the interview process.

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Talent Management for Digital Transformation Part III: Addressing Resistance to Change

In the final installment of this series on talent management for digital transformation, we’ll explore the root cause of change resistance, why organizations must address it, and three key elements of successful change-agility frameworks.

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What’s the Difference Between Digital Transformation, Business Model Transformation, and Operating Model Transformation?

The terms Digital Transformation, Business Model Transformation, and Operating Model Transformation are often used interchangeably, but in reality they each represent distinct yet interconnected concepts that are pivotal drivers of change in growing organizations. Here, I define each term and reveal why it's rare – even impossible – to take on any one of these without the others.

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Product Operations: Not Just for Big Companies

If you're at the helm of an organization with a product management practice, today's share from our friend Janna Bastow will lend some rich insight into the Product Operations role and why all digitally-transforming companies – both large and small – should embrace it.

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Talent Management for Digital Transformation Part I: Defining Your Strategy

It’s no secret that the digital world has altered the way businesses attract, develop, and retain talent, but doing it well requires a sound strategy and loads of intention. In Part I of this series on talent management for digital transformation, we’ll explore the crucial inputs to consider when defining a robust strategy that aligns talent with your organization's digital goals.

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All the Best Product People Share this Essential Product Management Skill

There’s one characteristic that tends to be present among all the rockstar product people I’ve worked with (especially those in tech). Learn what it is and how to cultivate it so that you look like a natural in your role, and create better outcomes at work.

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Digital Transformation Problems? 3 Signs a Common Blunder Is Derailing Your Progress

If you’re a leader at the helm of Digital Transformation, you can’t afford to ignore the signs that something is seriously off. Most of these symptoms can be traced back to one root cause, and they need to be addressed so you can get the ROI on your Transformation.

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