EP 129 - Digital Transformation With Kiron Jones Product For Product Management podcast

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EP 129 - Digital Transformation with Kiron Jones

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Digital transformations are hard! But they are a necessary need in our era for any organization who wants to keep their competitive edge, adapt to changing environments, build moats against new disruptors, and grow their market share. And more complex the organization structure and ecosystem are, the more challenging said transformation, hence the need for tools and frameworks to help us.

On the show today we met with Kiron Jones, Group Product Manager at Springer Nature, the world's largest academic book and journals publisher. The organization was created by a merger and acquisition of multiple publishers. This created a complex technical environment of many systems to support the business, publish the books and journals, and access the market.

In addition, the entire academic publishing sector has moved into a new open access model. Where in the past, libraries had to buy subscriptions to give access to readers for the materials, these days the access to the materials is free, and the authors are the ones charged to publish. Servicing this changed model has challenged the industry to come up with new solutions for the new clients, while still supporting high quality publications.

Product management in such an environment, as we learn from Kiron, is a challenging and rewarding task. The tools he and his team are using, and in some cases still on the lookout for, are helping them with stakeholder communication, prioritization and roadmapping, and so much more.

Join Matt and Moshe as we chatted with Kiron about:

How he got into product management
Digital and product challenges from Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
Dealing with shifting ecosystem that changes the Product-Market Fit, the user and buyers personas, their user journey, and the tools needed to create value for them
Dealing with challenges when not knowing who your users are
Some of the tools and methods he is using to help with these challenges
Opportunities for new tools that can solve more problems
CMS as a tool both for users and for product people
Some success and failure stories with tools adoption
How AI can help in elevating some of the work
And much more!

You can connect with Kiron at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kironjones/
If you are in London, at local product meetings

You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin:

Product for Product Podcast - linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast
Matt Green - linkedin.com/in/mattgreenproduct/
Moshe Mikanovsky - linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/

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