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Dr. Jim Anderson Speaks, Trains, Coaches, and Provides Consulting To Help People Become Great Product Managers

Welcome to the home of the Billion Dollar Product Manager where you too can learn to be a wildly successful product manger.

Dr. Jim Anderson is known as the “Billion Dollar Product Manager” because the products that he’s manged have produced over US$1B in revenue.

In reaching this goal, he has truly been there / done that. He has been a product manager for individual products at small start-ups as well as entire products lines for some of the world’s largest IT shops.

The same successful product management techniques can be made to work in both environments. In over 20 years of managing IT products and solutions, Dr. Anderson has implemented best practices for managing products at some of the world’s largest IT firms: Boeing, Siemens, Alcatel, and Verizon.

Coupled with his practical, real-world experience he’s created a proven strategy for streamlining the development of IT products. Dr. Anderson realizes that for a product’s sales to be successful, it takes an entire company working together, not different departments working separately. Making this happen is the real challenge that Product Managers face.

This blog, “The Accidental Product Manager“, is where he shares the product management secrets that he’s discovered along the way. He is dedicated to providing product managers everywhere with access to an ongoing discussion about the information and the skills that they can use need in order to become the best product mangers in the world.

For more information on Dr. Anderson and product management, go to: www.BlueElephantConsulting.com

Oh, and if you want to follow Dr. Anderson on Twitter, he can be found at http://twitter.com/drjimanderson