025: How to Achieve Product/Market Fit with Dan Olsen
Release Date: 02/05/2019
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info_outlineWelcome to episode #25 of IoT Product Leadership, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with product leaders on what it takes to build great IoT products. I’m your host, Daniel Elizalde.
I’m very excited about today’s episode. My guest today is Dan Olsen, an expert Product consultant and author of The Lean Product Playbook.
In this episode, Dan describes the concept of product/market-fit, and how companies large and small can apply this concept to create successful IoT products.
I also want to let you know that for 2019, in addition to my online courses for IoT product managers, I’m expanding my training offering to include more in-house workshops and additional consulting packages to help you create a solid IoT product strategy and build alignment across your organization.
About Dan Olsen:
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant and author. Dan wrote the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook, a practical guide for how to achieve product-market fit. At Olsen Solutions, he works with companies to build great products and strong product teams, often as interim VP of Product. His clients include Facebook, Box, PayPal, Walmart, and Gartner. Prior to consulting, Dan was a product management leader at Intuit. Dan also founded the monthly Lean Product Silicon Valley Meetup which has over 7,500 members.
Topics we discuss in this episode:
- Dan shares his background and about Olsen Consulting.
- The Lean Product Playbook and what is Product Market Fit.
- The Lean Product Process.
- Indicators that a company needs to revisit how they build Products.
- The importance of Analytics within software products and how that translates into the hardware world through IoT.
- The common challenges you see when companies are starting to implement these concepts and how to help them.
- Advice for Product Leaders who are new at developing IoT solutions.
Free download:
Don’t forget to download my IoT product strategy template, for free.
To learn more about Dan and Olsen Consulting:
- Dan Olsen
- The Lean Product Playbook
- Lean Product Silicon Valley Meetup
- Dan on Twitter @danolsen
- Dan on LinkedIn
