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Product Management

What Executives With Configurable Products & Services Want
Á La Carte Customer®

What Executives With Configurable Products & Services Want

What executives with configurable products & services want for their businesses, employees, and customers.

-Increased market share
-Delighted customers
-Improved quality
-Improved operating margins
-Differentiation/Competitive advantage
-Lean the business–eliminate waste
-Happy employees

By Dave Gardner, 2 yearsSeptember 27, 2020 ago
Product Rationalization | Taco Bell Kills Mexican Pizza
Product Management

What Does Product Rationalization Mean? 2 Cases In Full Display.

What does product rationalization mean? It is the action of making a company, process, or industry more efficient, especially by dispensing with superfluous personnel or equipment.

Often, product rationalization is done behind closed doors within companies or even in the boardroom.

By Dave Gardner, 2 yearsSeptember 6, 2020 ago
what happens if you don't have product management
Product Management

What Happens If You Don’t Have Product Management?

What happens if you don’t have product management? In the absence of product management, engineering steps into that role and determines whether or not a product can be created, not whether it should be created.

By Dave Gardner, 2 yearsAugust 9, 2020 ago
Recurring Operating Challenges That Affect Customer Satisfaction and Profits
Business Execution

Recurring Operating Challenges That Affect Customer Satisfaction and Profits

Recurring Operating Challenges That Affect Customer Satisfaction and Profits

By Dave Gardner, 3 years ago
getting configurable customer orders right
Configurable Products and Services

Getting Configurable Customer Orders Right

Getting configurable customer orders right: “We are having problems getting the right parts delivered to support installation of the customers’ orders.”

By Dave Gardner, 3 yearsDecember 15, 2019 ago
Ensuring Project Success
Business Execution

Be Forthcoming With Your Boss & “Banker”

Why do you need to be forthcoming with your boss and your banker? Ensuring project success. If you are running a project ( IT or otherwise) within your company, you need to ensure there are no surprises for your leadership when obstacles or delays appear. Issues or problems are inevitable Read more…

By Dave Gardner, 3 yearsDecember 8, 2019 ago
brand integrity
Ethics

Brand Integrity: Boeing And The FAA

Brand integrity. We are born with 100% integrity and, through the course of our lives, we either preserve or degrade from that 100%. The same can be said for companies. A brand is a representation of quality. A brand embodies a company’s reputation. That reputation is impacted by all the Read more…

By Dave Gardner, 3 yearsOctober 13, 2019 ago
YouTube TV Makes Unforced Error 1 YouTube TV Makes Unforced Error
Á La Carte Customer®

YouTube TV Makes Unforced Error

YouTube TV made an unforced error this past week: it added additional channels for current subscribers raising the price for everyone $10 a month. The new service isn’t an option; it’s required. The new channels are: Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and MotorTrend. Read more…

By Dave Gardner, 4 years ago
brand integrity
Making the complex simple

Boeing’s 737 MAX Big Oopsie

From Boeing comes this announcement regarding the Ethiopian air tragedy: Boeing continues to support the investigation… Safety is our highest priority as we design, maintain and support our airplanes. As part of our standard practice following any accident, we examine our aircraft design and operation, and when appropriate, institute product Read more…

By Dave Gardner, 4 yearsMarch 18, 2019 ago
US Auto Industry Must Evolve to Mass Customization 2 US Auto Industry Must Evolve to Mass Customization
Configurable Products and Services

US Auto Industry Must Evolve to Mass Customization

In the 20th century, the U.S. auto industry led the automotive manufacturing world by perfecting mass production. In the 21st century, the U.S. auto industry needs to lead the automotive manufacturing world by adopting mass customization. Mass production is about pushing products through the dealer/retail channel and deeply discounting what Read more…

By Dave Gardner, 4 yearsSeptember 18, 2018 ago

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