2830: Decoding Digital Product Management with Airtable
Tech Talks DailyMarch 13, 2024
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2830: Decoding Digital Product Management with Airtable

Is the rapid evolution of technology complicating product management more than facilitating it? I sit down with Anthony Maggio, Head of Product Management at Airtable, to explore the intricate landscape of digital product management in today's fast-paced world. Anthony brings a wealth of experience to the table, having navigated the challenges and opportunities that product leaders face in an era where technology products proliferate at an unprecedented rate.

As organizations strive to discern which products or tools align best with their business objectives and team requirements, Anthony delves into the pivotal role of product leaders in guiding these crucial decisions. The conversation tackles the concept of the digital product supply chain, illuminating how the explosive growth of software has led to more distributed project lifecycles and the unique challenges this presents.

Anthony shares invaluable advice on combating "strategy drift," a phenomenon where accessible data and technology tools can inadvertently lead teams away from their core business goals. He emphasizes the importance of drawing clear connections between projects and overarching business objectives to stay on course.

Furthermore, the discussion highlights the transformative potential of leveraging AI for enhanced support in product management. Anthony illustrates how AI can provide teams with crucial visibility into project lifecycles, enabling more informed decision-making and proactive responses to user feedback.

Listeners will gain insights into best practices for digital product management, including the significance of understanding customer needs, building well-prioritized roadmaps, and fostering collaboration across various teams. Anthony also shares his vision for the future, where AI could empower individuals to quickly develop customized software solutions simply by describing their needs.

As we wrap up, we're left to ponder: In a world where every company is becoming a digital product company, how can product leaders navigate the complexities of their role to drive success and innovation? Join the conversation and share your thoughts on the evolving challenges and opportunities in digital product management.

[00:00:00] Welcome back to another episode of The Tech Talks Daily Podcast, where every day we dive

[00:00:08] into the heart of innovation, explore the depths of technology and its impact on our daily

[00:00:14] lives, businesses and even world.

[00:00:17] And today I'm honoured to have Anthony Maggio, the head of product management at a company

[00:00:23] called AirTable.

[00:00:25] And he's going to join me in a conversation that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring

[00:00:30] because with over a decade of experience in navigating the complex landscape of product

[00:00:35] development and management, Anthony's going to be bringing with him a wealth of knowledge

[00:00:39] and insights into the challenges and opportunities that are facing product leaders in today's

[00:00:45] rapidly evolving digital world.

[00:00:48] And in a time where technology development is accelerating and organisations are inundated

[00:00:54] with a plethora of tools aiming to support their business goals.

[00:00:59] The role of a product leader has never been more critical.

[00:01:04] So I've invited Anthony to join me today to share his unique perspective on combating

[00:01:08] challenges within the digital product supply chain and also address things like strategy

[00:01:15] drift and also how to leverage AI for greater support and so much more.

[00:01:23] So whether you are a product leader yourself involved in the tech industry or simply interested

[00:01:28] in the behind the scenes of the digital product life cycle management, this episode is tailored

[00:01:33] for you.

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[00:02:33] But now it's time to get today's guest son.

[00:02:35] So buckle up and hold on tight as I beam your ears all the way to San Francisco where

[00:02:41] today's guest he's waiting to join me.

[00:02:44] So I'm a massive all welcome to the show.

[00:02:47] Can you tell everyone listening a little bit who you will and what you do?

[00:02:51] Alright well Neil thanks so much for having me.

[00:02:53] I'm Anthony Maggio and I'm the VP of Product Management at Air Table at Quarters in San

[00:02:59] Francisco and I've been here for about three and a half years.

[00:03:02] And for any of your listeners who aren't familiar with Air Table, Air Table is a low-code

[00:03:07] app platform that allows companies to really design software around their most important

[00:03:14] businesses process.

[00:03:16] Things like the product development lifecycle, IT management, marketing content management,

[00:03:21] many other workflows.

[00:03:23] And in the past creating these custom solutions, this custom software would have been a

[00:03:28] tremendous effort that required teams of developers.

[00:03:32] But now with low-code platforms like Air Table companies can really go and build themselves

[00:03:37] very quickly and efficiently.

[00:03:40] But I like to think I've been preparing for this job for a very long time even going

[00:03:45] back to middle school.

[00:03:47] My first job back in seventh grade was building MS access databases for small businesses

[00:03:52] like summer camps and dentist offices.

[00:03:55] And even then I was amazed by the impact that I was able to have on these companies as

[00:04:02] a single individual who could build an app and really transform the way they work.

[00:04:08] And I went on after college to work at Doidt consulting with very large companies, enterprises

[00:04:13] and state governments and found that they had many of the same problems.

[00:04:17] They were also struggling with inflexible tools and for ERP software that led to poor execution.

[00:04:25] So fast forward after a decade working in many enterprise software as a service companies

[00:04:30] and startups, I ultimately landed at Air Table to help them prove the way these companies

[00:04:35] work.

[00:04:36] Wow, what a great back story.

[00:04:38] And I wonder if it's that kid, if you look back when you were that kid with those months

[00:04:42] of access databases, even then you had no idea just how much or how fast that pace of

[00:04:49] technological change would be throughout your life.

[00:04:53] Absolutely.

[00:04:54] I was obsessed and interested in technology going back to an early age and I don't think

[00:05:00] I could have dreamed of all the hits that I would see in my lifetime and my career with

[00:05:06] the introduction of mobile and so much change on the internet.

[00:05:09] And now, of course, the advent of AI which has continued to reinvent the way that we work

[00:05:14] and interact with technology.

[00:05:17] It really has.

[00:05:18] I'm glad you've mentioned the AI.

[00:05:19] I like fast forward to 2024.

[00:05:23] Digital products supply chain is becoming increasingly complex.

[00:05:26] The software continues to dominate already in the world we can say, but can you share any

[00:05:32] insights on some of the main challenges that you're seeing organizations facing today,

[00:05:37] especially around managing this complexity and also, of course, our Air Table, you're addressing

[00:05:43] some of these challenges.

[00:05:44] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:05:45] And I think we're at a really interesting time here because the concept of a digital

[00:05:50] product supply chain or digital product lifecycle isn't new.

[00:05:54] But the complexity around developing excellent digital products has really increased.

[00:06:01] And every company now is becoming a digital product company.

[00:06:05] You look across every industry, banking, insurance, the way that users, the way that customers

[00:06:12] are interacting with most companies now, is through a mobile app or through some type

[00:06:17] of software.

[00:06:18] And so the challenge that these companies are having is that for product managers there's

[00:06:22] more data available than ever before.

[00:06:25] And while that should help theums do their jobs better, it's also quite overwhelming

[00:06:30] that user and customer feedback and market data are all managed in ad hoc processes analytics

[00:06:37] within their own tools.

[00:06:39] Team roadmaps might live in PowerPoints or spreadsheets and engineers and the ones actually

[00:06:45] building a software working in tools like JIRA.

[00:06:48] So there's really no single source of truth, new practical way to orchestrate that whole

[00:06:54] life side ball from customer insights all the way through product launches and delivery.

[00:07:00] And that's a challenge that I hear about very frequently from chief product officers

[00:07:04] that slows down their decision making, their execution and ultimately leads to negative product

[00:07:11] quality and outcomes.

[00:07:13] So there's a real opportunity that we see at their table for product readers to start addressing

[00:07:18] the gaps between all those tools to gain end and visibility.

[00:07:22] And really to improve the quality of the digital products that they're building.

[00:07:26] And that's a big part of what we've been focused on is really reimagining this whole supply

[00:07:31] chain, that whole digital product lifecycle with the incorporation of AI to help companies

[00:07:37] build better products and deliver them faster.

[00:07:39] And another thing I think with the sheer volume of data and technological tools available

[00:07:44] are I think many product leaders often face the risk of the dreaded strategy drift.

[00:07:49] I mean, how can they ensure that their projects remain a lot, remain a line now, especially

[00:07:56] with the overarching business goals and also if we throw it into yourselves at a table

[00:08:01] here?

[00:08:02] What role do you guys play in facilitating some of that alignment as well because you must

[00:08:06] hear the phrase strategy drift so many times, right?

[00:08:10] Yeah, you know, this is a challenge.

[00:08:11] I think every product leader has faced at some point.

[00:08:15] And typically what we see happen is that product teams they come together for annual planning

[00:08:20] or quarterly planning and everyone who leaves the room feeling generally aligned about

[00:08:25] the strategy and priorities.

[00:08:27] But invariably as the year kicks off, some of those teams start to spin up their own

[00:08:32] initiatives and local priorities and agenda start to emerge.

[00:08:37] And that really leaves the product leadership with the burden of spending a tremendous amount

[00:08:42] of time and energy monitoring everything happening across their organization and trying

[00:08:47] to corral teams back on track with the company focus.

[00:08:52] And that's the problem we like to call strategy drift this misalignment between a product

[00:08:57] team's effort and the broader business priorities.

[00:09:01] And I speak to your chief product leaders in the enterprise.

[00:09:05] This is the most top of mind problem that I hear about from CPS.

[00:09:10] Are we doing what we said we were going to do?

[00:09:12] Do we actually fund with head count, the teams and the initiatives and the big rocks that

[00:09:18] are most critical to achieve achieving the business objectives for this year?

[00:09:22] And are there things actually on track?

[00:09:24] So this is a problem that we've been very focused on addressing across the digital

[00:09:29] product supply chain with Earth table.

[00:09:32] And just one example is that we're now using AI to automatically map team level projects

[00:09:39] and initiatives up to company level goals and OKRs to help CPS identify where there's

[00:09:46] significant effort being dedicated to work that may not map to their company balls or focus

[00:09:52] and really re-examine some of those priorities.

[00:09:55] And at the very beginning of our conversation, you mentioned the AI word.

[00:09:59] It's all anyone's talking about in a moment and the speed of change there is just phenomenal

[00:10:03] was looking at the text to video features earlier before coming on this call with you

[00:10:08] and it is being heralded through its ability to streamline operations and ultimately enhance

[00:10:13] project visibility.

[00:10:15] So from air tables perspective though, how can teams leverage AI not just for efficiency

[00:10:20] but also for a strategic advantage in project management and the life cycle visibility

[00:10:27] of a product to?

[00:10:28] Yeah, so glad you asked this question because you're right that the vast majority of the

[00:10:33] AI applications we've seen so far, especially within enterprise SaaS have been primarily

[00:10:39] focused on inefficiency.

[00:10:40] You know things like write me this email faster or summarize some content for me.

[00:10:46] But what I'm most excited about is the possibility for AI to start solving problems that were

[00:10:52] previously very difficult if not impossible to solve with humans.

[00:10:57] As one example that we're seeing within the product supply chain, is that air table

[00:11:03] is now allowing product teams to spot trends in their user and customer feedback based

[00:11:09] on thousands of data points by incorporating AI.

[00:11:12] So we can ingest for example user feedback from many sources like support tickets, community

[00:11:19] forums, sales requests, even recorded phone calls through Zoom or other avenues and then

[00:11:27] use AI to parse all that feedback and spot product opportunities.

[00:11:32] So let's say for example that the prospects of a company start mentioning one important

[00:11:38] product gap that's offered by a competitor and that the people who mentioned that product

[00:11:43] gap are the ones who end up not lying your product.

[00:11:46] In the past, a product manager probably wouldn't even hear about that until it's escalated

[00:11:52] through a sales leader and maybe forced onto their roadmap.

[00:11:57] But now using AI we can automatically identify that trend route it to the right heart of

[00:12:03] the organization to the right product manager or team and help those teams actually influence

[00:12:09] the conversion rate of their product proactively before it comes up as a reactive need.

[00:12:16] And the pace of technological development as well is pretty relentless right now so

[00:12:20] is anything you could share how product leaders could adapt their strategies to keep up with

[00:12:26] this pace because although it is moving breath taking speed, there's an argument they

[00:12:31] will never move the slower gain too.

[00:12:33] So how can they keep up with that pace and how do you airtable helping navigating some

[00:12:38] of these rapid changes?

[00:12:40] Well, you're absolutely right.

[00:12:41] The pace of change continues to accelerate and I think it's incumbent on product leaders

[00:12:46] to ensure that they are continuously placing the right bets and investing in the right areas.

[00:12:53] And so for product leaders maintaining a balanced portfolio of the type of their investments

[00:12:59] across the organization is a really important way to keep up with that rapid pace of change.

[00:13:05] What I typically see from product leaders across the enterprise is that they'll have

[00:13:09] them go all to set, you know, let's say 50% of their headcount to focus on their core

[00:13:16] business.

[00:13:17] But then another 30, 40% on new ways to grow the business, on new products or moving into

[00:13:24] adjacent markets that they can tap into.

[00:13:27] And then maybe 10% on some big moonshot bets are big swing, big swing efforts.

[00:13:33] And a way that air table helps with this is by giving product leaders visibility into

[00:13:38] how the team and headcount are actually invested across those buckets.

[00:13:43] Not only, you know, how are they invested but also even the next level down, how are these

[00:13:47] teams working on or aligned to priorities that map up to the business goals?

[00:13:52] And what are those key initiatives?

[00:13:54] And are they on track or are they starting to flounder or move behind?

[00:13:59] And that way, you know, as these product leaders encounter shifts in the market or changes

[00:14:04] in technology or things that might alter what they're focused on as an organization, they

[00:14:09] have the data that allows them to adjust their strategy and resourcing quickly.

[00:14:14] The biggest challenge that we typically see is a lack of visibility around how that top

[00:14:19] line, headcount and team formation actually trickles down into the team level goals and

[00:14:26] that work that's happening in a large company.

[00:14:28] So with your extensive experience in product management, I've got to ask, what are some

[00:14:33] of the best practices that you'd recommend to other product leaders, especially in terms

[00:14:38] of utilizing digital tools and platforms like air table to overcome some of these common

[00:14:44] pain points?

[00:14:45] You've probably seen some great examples and some not so great examples but what are

[00:14:49] the best practices that you've fallen with best role at now?

[00:14:52] Yeah, it's a really good question.

[00:14:54] And I saw a stat recently that really stood out to me a study from Bain in 2022 that found

[00:15:03] that 75% of CTOs say that the ROI on their software development investments don't meet their

[00:15:11] expectations.

[00:15:13] Pretty shocking stat actually, only 25% of CTOs say that they're actually happy with

[00:15:19] the ROI of their product development teams.

[00:15:23] And I think this really speaks to the importance of having an effective product management

[00:15:28] function within the enterprise that is really helping that a company to make good decisions

[00:15:33] and invest in the right products across their portfolio.

[00:15:37] So in terms of best practices, what we see from really high functioning product management

[00:15:42] organizations are that one, they know their customer.

[00:15:45] They bring the right data to the table.

[00:15:47] They build the right processes to really understand the customer needs, the customer landscape

[00:15:52] of alternatives and how they make buying decisions on software.

[00:15:57] Two, is that they're building the right product so they operate with well prioritized roadmaps

[00:16:04] grounded in clear customer needs, clear impact to market opportunities.

[00:16:09] And three, is they collaborate really effectively across the organization.

[00:16:14] So product and development teams aren't just siloed and operating off on their own, but

[00:16:19] they're engaging really heavily with marketing teams with customer facing teams in the sales

[00:16:25] and support organizations to amplify the efforts of what they're building.

[00:16:31] And so these are areas that air tables been very focused on on helping to solve to centralize

[00:16:36] the data around this product development life cycle to ensure that the right people across

[00:16:41] the organization have visibility at the right points in time to amplify those efforts

[00:16:47] and to create reliable transparency around the product bird maps that both the product

[00:16:53] teams themselves, product leaders and other business partners can trust.

[00:16:58] And as businesses continue to evolve, how do you see the role of digital tools and platforms

[00:17:04] changing in the next few years?

[00:17:05] And I appreciate it is an impossible question to ask because just 12 months ago we were

[00:17:10] talking about chat GPT or OpenAI large language models beating lawyers at passing bar exams,

[00:17:17] 12 months later we've got text to video which is taking the world by storm.

[00:17:22] What trend should we be watching right now and how do you see it all being into place?

[00:17:27] It's a long way away from those days of the Microsoft Access database as well.

[00:17:32] It sure is.

[00:17:34] I believe that with AI we are entering an age of truly personalized software and at air table

[00:17:42] we've long held the belief that the people who are closest to the work, the line of business

[00:17:48] users, the ones who are really executing on the marketing campaigns or the product initiatives

[00:17:54] that those people are in the best position to understand what they need from software

[00:17:59] and what they need out of the design of the tools that they use.

[00:18:03] But there's still a large barrier to entry for most people to be able to actually create

[00:18:08] software.

[00:18:09] And even with easy-to-use low-code platforms like air table you still need to understand

[00:18:15] some basics around databases and application logic and UI design to create really useful applications.

[00:18:23] But with AI we now see the potential for that to change and really to allow anyone with

[00:18:28] organization to very quickly create and deploy highly customized software applications just

[00:18:35] based on a few descriptions around their workflow and their needs and their requirements

[00:18:41] out of software.

[00:18:42] And we're actually already seeing that some of the analysts like Forrester are taking

[00:18:46] note of this trend and suggesting that AI will really quickly evolve the low-code market

[00:18:52] and make it grow even faster by lowering the barrier to entry of who can become a software

[00:18:58] developer.

[00:18:59] And I think we should also highlight that it's not just technology that has changed how

[00:19:02] right it seems towards work has changed it four years ago the world by the very large

[00:19:07] point and suddenly woke up to working remotely at scale.

[00:19:12] It almost happened overnight.

[00:19:13] Now we're evolving into a hybrid world of working but in a context of increasingly distributed

[00:19:19] project lifestyle life cycles, how can product leaders effectively build and manage these

[00:19:24] remote teams that we're seeing now?

[00:19:27] What have been your experience at air table in fostering collaboration and productivity

[00:19:32] across distances because it's been some journey we've all been on over the last four

[00:19:36] five years, hasn't it?

[00:19:37] It has been quite a journey now and I've actually worked prior to air table.

[00:19:41] I worked for a fully remote company for four years.

[00:19:45] So I've been eight years now into this remote and hybrid environment and definitely picked

[00:19:50] up a few things along the way.

[00:19:52] What would I say as the biggest area for companies to focus is really intentionality.

[00:19:58] You get a lot of things per free when everyone is in the office shared cultural norms, rituals,

[00:20:05] all-way conversations that all just happens naturally.

[00:20:09] When you're operating in a fully remote or hybrid environment, you need to build time

[00:20:14] and space for these types of cultural norms and cultural rituals to take shape.

[00:20:20] So creating forums for brainstorm time, or strategy discussions, even for opportunities

[00:20:27] for teams to really form bonds and connect over cultural rituals becomes really important.

[00:20:33] At air table we do something once a month called Show and Tell where engineers and designers

[00:20:39] and product managers get up and present a demo of a working product feature that they're

[00:20:45] working on.

[00:20:46] When everyone in the company, they can come see all the innovation and work that's happening

[00:20:51] within the product organizations and teams.

[00:20:54] That's really one of the most exciting and engaging cultural rituals that we have across

[00:20:59] the company but it really needed to be designed in a way that is friendly for those remote

[00:21:04] employees and engaging for everyone to participate in.

[00:21:08] We start at the podcast talking about you at the beginning of your journey with those

[00:21:12] access databases.

[00:21:13] If you look back and reflect on your journey, what have been some of the most valuable lessons

[00:21:18] that you've learned along the way as a product leader?

[00:21:21] And how have these lessons shaped your approach at air table?

[00:21:24] It's a little like Steve Jobsquat, isn't it?

[00:21:26] You can't join up the dots by looking forward.

[00:21:31] It's only when you look back that you can see the impacts of everything that happened

[00:21:34] but what are your biggest lessons here?

[00:21:35] Well there's been many but I'll leave you with two that have always stepped with me.

[00:21:40] I think one you probably hear this a lot is people and to build great products, you

[00:21:46] really need a phenomenal team behind them, a team of product managers and product leaders

[00:21:51] that have an incredible degree of understanding of their users on their market and fostering

[00:21:57] that right team and building that culture of innovation is something that I've seen

[00:22:02] to be so critical for software companies to get right.

[00:22:06] So that's been a huge focus of mine and an effort that I put a lot of attention to since

[00:22:12] joining air table and in this role.

[00:22:15] The second I'd say is for product leaders to really stay close to the execution of

[00:22:20] the work.

[00:22:21] And I think there's sometimes a perception that as you move up in an organization, as you

[00:22:26] move into manager and director roles that you graduate out of the work and focus just

[00:22:32] on the people management and on the people development.

[00:22:36] But within the product management function, I've seen that that doesn't really work to

[00:22:41] do really be effective at driving the product strategy.

[00:22:45] You need to stay extremely close to the customer, to the execution, to the market.

[00:22:50] In a perfect world you can actually be your own customer much like I was working in

[00:22:57] the tools and the space prior to joining air table and having an understanding around

[00:23:02] how I made my own buying decisions as a customer.

[00:23:06] And I think that that's something that's really important for product readers to stay

[00:23:09] attuned to is not thinking of themselves as moving out of the execution, but really

[00:23:16] continuously putting yourself in the mindset of the customer, of the product manager and

[00:23:23] keeping an eye on that whole landscape that impacts the dynamics of your strategy.

[00:23:29] Well, I cannot thank you enough for showing your story today.

[00:23:32] Also giving us the gift of your insights throughout your entire career.

[00:23:36] But before I let you go, I'm going to ask you to leave one final gift for everyone listening.

[00:23:40] And that is a book that you'd recommend that we can add to our Amazon wish list for

[00:23:44] anybody listening that wants to check that out.

[00:23:46] But what book would you like to leave everyone with and why?

[00:23:50] Of course.

[00:23:51] I love the Amazon wish list.

[00:23:52] I took a look at it right before joining this conversation today.

[00:23:57] So my addition to the wish list would be Com Keating Against Luck by Clayton Christensen.

[00:24:02] I think this book should be required reading for anyone in a product development or product

[00:24:08] management function.

[00:24:10] And if you're not familiar with that, this book is the source of the jobs to be done framework,

[00:24:16] which highlights that customers don't really buy product or services.

[00:24:21] They hire them to do a job for them.

[00:24:24] And this book, I was fortunate to read midway through my product development career.

[00:24:30] And it really expanded the way that I thought about product management emphasizing the importance

[00:24:36] of the landscape of alternatives that customer space.

[00:24:40] I've always found this to be very true, very salient, especially in software where your

[00:24:46] customers, alternatives are typically much broader than you might give them credit for as

[00:24:52] a product manager or product leader.

[00:24:54] I still see that the vast majority of software companies are competing in some way with Excel

[00:25:01] or word documents rather than the companies that they might think to be their core competitors.

[00:25:07] And this is an idea that Clayton Christensen really articulates well in competing against

[00:25:13] luck.

[00:25:14] Well, I'm going to be checking that out.

[00:25:16] I'll add that straight to the Amazon wish list.

[00:25:19] Anybody listening just want in a funer more information about a table contact you

[00:25:23] or your team will just explore any of the topics we talked about today.

[00:25:27] Where would you like to point them?

[00:25:29] Of course, for anyone interested in air table, you can find us at airtable.com and for

[00:25:34] any product managers or product readers in your audience, we're always looking for

[00:25:39] rate folks to come join our team and you can find us at airtable.com slash careers.

[00:25:44] Look at those links added to the show notes so people can follow and do know like something

[00:25:48] easily.

[00:25:49] And we did cover so much there from combating challenges with digital products, supply

[00:25:54] or chain advising advice for product leaders for addressing strategy drift.

[00:26:00] I think that's something that will resonate with so many people listening along with of

[00:26:04] course leveraging AI for support.

[00:26:06] AI is a bit of a buzzword at the moment but also for good reason and it was interesting

[00:26:11] for me to hear our AI is also valuable technology to streamline general business operations

[00:26:16] and employee tasks.

[00:26:18] An AI technology can help provide teams with the necessary high-end visibility into project

[00:26:23] life cycles so much more than efficiency where only scratching the surface here but more

[00:26:28] lethine just thank you for sharing that and your story today.

[00:26:30] Thank you for joining me.

[00:26:31] Thank you for having me now, I'm great to connect with you.

[00:26:34] I think it's clear that the path forward for product leaders is paved with both challenges

[00:26:39] and immense opportunities having spoken with Anthony today.

[00:26:43] And his expertise and his advice on navigating the digital product supply chain, combating

[00:26:49] strategy drift and holising the power of AI for enhanced project visibility has almost

[00:26:55] offered a roadmap for success in a landscape that is constantly being reshaped by technological

[00:27:01] advancement.

[00:27:02] And I think the journey through this digital age as Anthony has illustrated requires a

[00:27:07] blend of strategic force on adaptability and a keen understanding of the tools that

[00:27:13] are our disposal.

[00:27:15] Ultimately it's about knowing your customer, prioritising effectively and fostering a

[00:27:22] culture of collaboration across teams to build products that truly meet the evolving

[00:27:27] needs of businesses and the end users alike.

[00:27:30] So I for one I'm excited to see where Anthony and the entire team at Air Table will take

[00:27:35] their innovative solutions next.

[00:27:37] I'm equally excited about the future of digital product management.

[00:27:42] But what are your thoughts on any of the topics we covered today?

[00:27:45] How do you see AI and other technologies impacting product management in your field?

[00:27:50] Please join the conversation, share your insights as we continue exploring this fascinating

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