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Mind the Product

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Deep dive: Crafting your product vision and mission

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Connecting fans to creators at Spotify (Dariusz Dziuk, Product Lead, Spotify)

B2B product management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Building Product Teams

Business Strategy

Data Driven Product Management

Digital Transformation

Diversity and Inclusion

Minimum Viable Product

OKRs

Prioritisation

Product Design

Product Research

Product Development Process

Product Ethics

Product Discovery

Product Leadership

Product Management Career

Product Strategy

Stakeholder Management

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Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

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The Product Experience

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<p>At <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpengage/manchester/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MTP Engage Manchester</a> (February 2020), Rakhi Rajani (Associate Partner at <a href="https://www.quantumblack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QuantumBlack</a>) joined us for our first-ever live podcast recording. Talking to Rakhi we learned why Engage organiser Adam Warburton called her the smartest person he&#8217;s ever worked with as we discussed building teams, hiring at scale, when you need troublemakers, and why she had recruiters ask candidates what their teachers said about them at parent/teacher evening.</p>
<p><span style="color: inherit; font-family: rawline, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem;">Quote of the Episode</span></p>
<blockquote><p>To me a cognitively diverse team is one where you look for folks who process information differently. I&#8217;m looking for story-tellers, naysayers, people who are dreamers, reflectors, fighters. People who are approaching the world from a different point of view, people who think about information in different ways. And the ability to bring those people together in a team situation, where normally we just go &#8220;I just want cultural fit, find me people like that person over there&#8221;, which often ends up in stagnant teams.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Listen if you&#8217;d like to learn more about</h3>
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<li>Cognitive Diversity</li>
<li>Building Teams</li>
<li>Human Behaviour</li>
<li>Artificial Intelligence</li>
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<p><span style="color: inherit; font-family: rawline, sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem;">Links mentioned in this episode</span></p>
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<li>Follow Rakhi on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakhi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn,</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rakhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter </a>and on her own <a href="http://rakhirajani.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">site</a></li>
<li>Rakhi&#8217;s talk at University of Cambridge Judge Business School &#8211; <a href="https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/entrepreneurship/enterprise-wise/downloads/191121-slides-rajani.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slides</a></li>
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<h3>Hosts</h3>
<p>The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.</p>
<p><strong>Lily</strong> enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products &#8211; leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers&#8217; meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.</p>
<p>A recovering music journalist and editor, <strong>Randy</strong> has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he&#8217;s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton&#8230; so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.</p>
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<h3>Music</h3>
<p>Our theme music is from Hamburg-based Pau, featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s own Arne Kittler on bass. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Paupulism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to more on their Facebook page</a></p>
<h3>Suggest a guest</h3>
<p>Have you seen someone give a great talk? <a href="https://mindtheproduct.typeform.com/to/oi0UyX" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Suggest a guest to us here</a></p>
<h3>Talk to us</h3>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MTPpod" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tweet at us!</a></li>
<li>Use the #podcast channel in the <a href="https://mindtheproduct.slack.com/messages/CE13B3A23" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mind the Product Slack community</a></li>
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<h3>Sponsor us</h3>
<p>Showcase your brand to our audience of avid listeners as a sponsor of The Product Experience. Email <a href="mailto:sponsor@mindtheproduct.com.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sponsor@mindtheproduct.com</a> for more information.</p>
<h3>Review us</h3>
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Product-led growth in action – Partho Ghosh (VP of Product, Uberall)

Using AI in healthcare products – Tetiana Telenczak (Head of Product, Merck Group)

How to improve your relationship with data – Heather Williams (Director of Product, Elsevier)

How Citi is accelerating AI in banking – Tariq Maonah (SVP of Product and Engineering, Citi)

Why can’t we get accessibility right? Claire Bauden (SVP Global Product Design, Global Payments Inc.)

Product outcomes and company values go hand in hand – Brian Walsh (SVP of Product, Pendo)

Cognitively Diverse Teams – Live from MTP Engage Manchester – Rakhi Rajani on The Product Experience

Cognitively Diverse Teams – Live from MTP Engage Manchester – Rakhi Rajani on The Product Experience

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