TEI 075: Building product lifecycle excellence – with Kimberly Wiefling

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode 075 of...

The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD.

The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers.

About the Episode:  As the pressure to get products to market faster increases, little room is left for learning through mistakes. My guest knows this well and has helped numerous companies improve their processes and results developing products. She has worked all over the US, Europe and Asia, including traveling to Japan more than 100 times to help Japanese companies globalize. Her superpower is bringing people with diverse backgrounds and cultures together, across borders and boundaries of every kind, to achieve what none could do alone.

Her name is Kimberly Wiefling and she shares the three elements needed for product excellence:

1. executive sponsorship,
2. cross-functional core teams, and
3. the customer.