Wondering how to get a job as a consumer product manager if you’ve only done enterprise work? Worried that your portfolio isn’t sexy because you don’t have a flashy consumer mobile app under your belt? Put that all that thinking behind you and see why product management is an agnostic skill and set of tools that let you do anything. Hear from Mike Mayes, a product design consultant with over 15 years experience building online marketplaces and platforms for (mostly) the enterprise, with a mix of B2C and C2C thrown in along the way.
This presentation showcases the tools and techniques that can help with ANY product. Here's some insights into the similarities between consumer and enterprise product management, and details on why it’s important to always be “design thinking” as a PM
Mike Mayes Product School Presentation Consumer-v-Enterprise in Product Management
1. It’s All the Same: Consumer and Enterprise
Product Management
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2. It’s all the same.
Enterprise and Consumer
Product Management
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3. 15+ years of product, design, UX
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Circaviso
Workmarket
GLG
Capital One
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University of Virginia - Architecture
Mike Mayes
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5. But I’ve only worked at (enterprise company)…
I want to do product at
(consumer startup)
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6. But I’ve only worked at (enterprise company)…
I want to do product at
(consumer startup)
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enterprise
consumer
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“ Product management is an organizational lifecycle function
within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, and
production, or marketing of a product or products at all
stages of the product lifecycle. Similarly, Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) integrates people, data, processes and
business systems. “
@wikipedia
Product Management
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what is product
management?
Source:
martin eriksson
http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2011/10/what-exactly-is-a-product-manager/
17. ENTERPRISE
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Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
Dell to buy EMC for $67 billion
Avago Ltd. buys Broadcom Corp. for $37 billion
Google Inc. buys Motorola for $12.4 billion
Hewlett-Packard buys Autonomy for $10 billion
Microsoft Corp. buys Skype for $8.5 billion
Oracle Corp. buys Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion
22. It’s all the same.
Enterprise and Consumer
Product Management
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23. … the study and application of object-oriented building
techniques, where building components are pre-designed /
pre-engineered / pre-fabricated for inclusion in joint-based
(linear element), panel-based (planar element), module-
based (solid element), and deployable (time element)
construction systems.
The Kit of Parts
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Source:
http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/19/kit-of-parts-
conceptualism-abstracting-architecture-in-the-american-academy
24. The Kit of Parts
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Source:
http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/19/kit-of-parts-
conceptualism-abstracting-architecture-in-the-american-academy
Doors
Windows
Walls
Beams
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37. Project Lifecycle
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Research Strategy Design Build Launch Analyze Optimize
Competitive mapping
Stakeholder interviews
Background strategy
User Personas
Business goals
Brand strategy
UX strategic drivers
Messaging and voice
Site map
UX prototype
User interface concepts
38. Project Lifecycle
CIRCAVISO // @michaelmayes
…
Research Strategy Design Build Launch Analyze Optimize
Competitive mapping
Stakeholder interviews
Background strategy
User Personas
Business goals
Brand strategy
UX strategic drivers
Messaging and voice
Site map
UX prototype
User interface concepts
things in your kit!
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