ORs add business manager role and see responsibilities grow.

Flipping ORs: does this common practice make business sense?

What are the roles of software product managers? An empirical investigation

Software product management covers both technical and business activities to management of products like roadmaps, strategic, tactical, and release planning. In practice, one product manager is seldom responsible for all these activities but several persons share the responsibilities. Therefore, it is important to understand the boundaries of product managers’ work in managing software products...

Integrated solutions in the IT industry: The Key Role of Alliance Managers 23rd IMP Conference (2007)

The emergence of network forms of organization on many business markets has led to the development of new management activities. One core activity is the management of a company's relationships with partners in strategic alliances. Responsibilities for alliance management are increasingly attributed to a new type of formal position, the alliance manager. Based on empirical data from the IT sect...

Formalizing and Structuring the Responsibilities and Makeup of the Product Management Team

The role of a product manager is challenging, complex, and often misunderstood. Across the high-tech industry, the product manager title is used in many ways to describe drastically different duties and responsibilities. Diverse interpretations regarding the role of the product manager have created for some an untenable situation where they struggle to define their own role. Properly defining a...

Developing a model of HR manager as coach by Grounded Theory in National Iranian Petrochemical Company

In recent years, the role of coaching human resource managers has been proposed as a new paradigm in organizations. Accordingly, present research aimed at designing HR as coach paradigm in National Iranian Petrochemical Company by utilizing a qualitative technique based on grounded theory. Data collection has been done by semi-structured interview with 15 managers, heads and expert of human res...