Digital and Operating Model Transformation Ideas
Find resources and tips for leaders at the helm of Digital Transformation and Operating Model Transformation in product-led organizations.
The 4 Dimensions of Operating Model Maturity
Learn the four dimensions of Operating Model maturity so you know where to focus your efforts as you lead your organization into the future. You’ll also preview the five stages of maturity for helpful context as you create benchmarks for the work.
3 Critical Pillars of a Strong Product Strategy
Tuckpoint Founder Jen Swanson breaks down three key pillars of a strong product strategy and offers her advice on activating them so you can create a high-performing product organization fueled by teams that take the business where you want it to go.
The Path to a Modern Operating Model: Navigating Transformational Leadership in Uncertain Times
This year has ushered in some “anti-pattern” behaviors across many product-led organizations, including a natural tendency to default to what feels comfortable and familiar, like command-and-control leadership behaviors. In this article, you'll learn the "watch outs" for defaulting to old ways of working, and the importance and rewards of honing transformational leadership characteristics within your org.
Outcomes vs Outputs: A Key Mindset Shift for High-Performing Product Organizations
An important characteristic of high-performing product organizations is the company-wide ability to focus on outcomes over outputs. This article will help you understand the importance of focusing on outcomes over outputs, with some initial steps and “watch outs” to follow as you cultivate this mindset across your transforming organization.
How to Decentralize Decision-Making: Empowering Product Teams for Speed and Efficiency
In this article, you’ll learn about the benefits of decentralized decision making for product-led organizations, and how to activate empowered execution to establish a company culture of agility and ownership.
The Roadmap to Product-Led Success: Transforming Your Financial Model
In this article, you’ll learn why transforming your financial model is necessary to become a high-functioning product-led organization, as well as the mindset shifts required to unlock increased efficiency, flexibility, and long-term value creation.
The Characteristics of High-Performing Product Organizations
Organizations with healthy, mature, and thriving product management practices have many common characteristics that you can learn to cultivate within your organization. This article explores the traits of high-performing product organizations so that you can better assess where your organization currently stands and opportunities for closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
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.
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.
The Leadership Guide to a More Effective Change Management Process
In this guide, Tuckpoint founder Jen Swanson covers the essential elements of effective change leadership and strategies leaders can leverage to foster a culture of change agility within their digitally-transforming organizations.
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.
5 Important Digital Transformation Trends in 2024
The new year has arrived in full swing, and, with it, my predictions for emerging trends in digital transformation and product-led companies in the year ahead. What’s on the horizon? This article explores 5 key areas that will shape digital transformation in 2024.
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.
Common Struggles Among CTOs Driving Digital Transformation
Today’s article is about the role of modern CTOs and the challenges they face when it comes to digital transformation. It includes a list of common struggles that might feel all-too familiar.
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.
My Favorite Digital Transformation Resources for Leaders
Feeling a little stuck, uninspired, or perplexed over your digital transformation efforts? Sometimes one light-bulb moment is enough to reignite the process, which is why we’ve compiled this list of our favorite digital-transformation resources for leaders.
Talent Management for Digital Transformation Part II: Training and Growing Your Current Staff
In part II of this series on talent management, I’ll break down the reasons why digitally-transforming companies should proactively invest in their existing talent pool and share best practices for nailing that endeavor.
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.
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.
3 Digital Transformation KPIs That Actually Matter
Let's dive into the essential Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you’ll need to consider if you want to stay on track to achieve a successful and lasting digital transformation.