Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Fabrice des Mazery, former entrepreneur and product leader. They discuss transforming product management from a technical function to a business-driven discipline, focusing on ROI, investment strategies, and portfolio management in product development.

What does it mean to make a product inclusive?

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Josef Starýchfojtů, Chief Product and Technology Officer at MEWS. They discuss the transformation of property management systems in hospitality, focusing on cloud migration, product strategy, and the challenges of modernizing a traditionally tech-resistant industry.

How can crowd testing improve signup completion rates?

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Gabriel Aguilo, Director of Product at Hootsuite, to discuss the evolving role of product managers, their impact on business success, and why they remain crucial despite technological changes.

What is localization... and what does it mean for testing?

Why should accessibility be a priority for all teams, not just QA?

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Nader Balata, Director of Product Management at Equinix and former Director of Product Management at Salesforce. They discuss the key differences between B2C and enterprise B2B product management, focusing on security, reliability, and the complexities of enterprise sales cycles.

Do you ever feel like a QA bottleneck? Do you want to release software faster but QA gets in the way? This episode is all about how GAT can help clients release their software faster:

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead interviews Sriram Palghat, Director of Product at Qualcomm. They discuss the current state of self-driving car technology, the challenges in achieving full autonomy, and the market dynamics shaping the industry's future.

Compatibility testing is testing concerned with breadth. That means testing that devices, environments, payment instruments and other modes of accessing your product are “compatible” with the flawless product.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Dimitris Sotiriou, Director of AI Product Management at Twilio. They discuss the challenges and considerations in rolling out AI capabilities in enterprise applications, focusing on the journey from prototype to production, data readiness, and building trust and security.

What is this series? We're talking about some of the ways we've helped clients leverage their contracts to drive amazing outcomes with Global App Testing. We've helped our clients to release software faster, to drive engineering productivity, to undertake operationally difficult tests. The main podcast will also continue on this feed, so please do remain subscribed!

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Daniel Lereya, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Monday.com. They discuss the evolution of product teams from startup to public company, focusing on Monday.com's journey and providing insights on building effective product organizations at different stages of growth.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Jean-Baptiste Guerin, Head of Product at N26, to discuss global financial applications, globalization strategy, and the challenges of delivering products to a global client base. Drawing from his experiences at both N26 and Block, Jean-Baptiste shares valuable insights on successful international expansion and the pitfalls to avoid.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Meg Watson, a product lead at DoorDash with previous experience in leadership roles at Spotify and Stitch Fix. They discuss the intricacies of building and managing successful product teams, decision-making processes, and the evolution of remote work in the tech industry.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Kam Star, Chief Product Officer of Chaos, to discuss why you should consider the red ocean environment of a product, how you can use your customer community to grow, and how to lean on creativity.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Sanah Ansari, Director of Product at Capital One. Together they discuss the challenges and benefits of modernisation in a large company, emphasising the importance of strategic vision, stakeholder management, and adapting to changing consumer expectations.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Shahzad Shaikh, Head of Product Management, Growth, Mobile, and Customer Engagement at Asana. Together they discuss the importance of growth strategies in product management, the need to balance growth with product quality, and the role of growth teams.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Manlio Lo Conte, freelance Advisor, Investor, and Coach, and previous Chief Product Officer at Zwift, to discuss the future of voice software, how AI and voice software co-exist, and offer an internal look at the software and hardware teams of Amazon, Meta, and Zwift.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Diego dos Santos, Director of ‘pay-by-bank' Product Management at Mastercard. Together, they discuss product growth strategies for international software products.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, host Adam Stead is joined by Marc Esmiley, Technical Program and Product Director for the Financial Services Industry Solution Engineering department at Microsoft. Together, they discuss the challenges facing businesses in the financial sector as they adhere to international regulatory bodies, and how Microsoft works hard to ensure all their departments are able to work with the regulators on developing exceptional products.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, our host Adam Stead is joined by Lucas Thelosen, the Head of Product, Data & AI Cloud at Google. Together they discuss the treatment of Data and AI as their own product within a business, and how Lucas's domestic-first approach to product development can benefit global growth.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, our host Adam Stead is joined by Derek Boman, Director and Head of Product Design at Fintech platform Avant. Together they discuss the tough global landscape of fintech UX and UI that Derek and his team navigate everyday, the trust issues that consumers have with banking, and how they can juggle those issues whilst innovating the fintech space with new technologies.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, our host Adam Stead is joined by Mauricio Monico, the Chief Product Owner of Wish. Together, they discuss Mauricio's journey at the company and how he helped turn around the brand's negative recognition through some difficult decisions - affecting their place in the global marketplace. Some of those decisions turned out well, and some didn't. But in our discussion, you'll hear how all those decisions came together to help Wish grow their global brand as a product.