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 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.

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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.

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Change Leadership vs Change Management in Product-Led Organizations

When you’re transforming to a product-led organization, change management is futile without the necessary change leadership approach to drive the process. This article details the difference between change leadership and change management, along with the necessary mindset shifts every leader needs to make in order to support a successful transformation toward product-led ways of working.

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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.

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Analytics: A Job for Product Managers or Product Ops?

A company's product development and delivery processes are only as good as the data that drives the decision-making behind it. But whose job should it be to wrangle all of the data – the individual Product Manager, or the Product Operations team? The answer helps teams do their jobs better, delivering products with the most value to the consumer and in the highest support of the organization’s goals.

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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.

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Trends Shaping the Future of Product Management

Here are some of the things Tuckpoint founder Jen Swanson is thinking about as we move into what we’re beginning to think of as the second wave of Digital Transformation, which focuses on operating models rather than on the technology we’re implementing.

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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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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.

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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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