Joel Zien

Joel Zien

Revenue, Demand, and Growth at Connected are where you’ll find Joel at the helm. For nearly a decade, his undeniable passion for product and technology has helped organizations and product teams accelerate, elevate, and distinguish their value offering. With a portfolio of success transcending industry and vertical, it’s his unwavering commitment to helping create products that both customers and the company accountants love that have allowed Connected to grow alongside so many of its partners.

Articles

Tue Sep 6

  • Product Thinking

How Working in a Kitchen Taught Me to Succeed in Tech

Managing the culinary execution of five-star restaurants and working in technology might seem like roles that are poles apart. But what if there are more similarities than you realize? Joel Zien, Managing Director, Client Experience and Growth, describes what he learned in the kitchen and how that helped him lead teams, delight customers, and help enable the creation of remarkable experiences in the technology industry.

How Working in a Kitchen Taught Me to Succeed in Tech

Tue Mar 15

  • Client Experience,
  • Culture,
  • Product Thinking,
  • Software Development

How to Scale Engineering Teams, Not Slow Down & Still Have an Amazing Product – Part 1

You're a VP/Head of Engineering, and you've got an amazing product, and you want to grow and build on/evolve that amazing product. But you don't have enough people or time to grow that amazing product at the speed at which you or the business expects. And you're worried that if you cut corners, you're no longer going to have an amazing product to make.  What do you do?

How to Scale Engineering Teams, Not Slow Down & Still Have an Amazing Product – Part 1

Tue Apr 7

  • Client Experience,
  • Software Development,
  • Strategy

Four Ways to Increase Product Collaboration Between Innovation and Execution Teams

Businesses grow through product, but actually getting products built is a huge task in large businesses that find themselves working in silos. Having worked with dozens of clients over the years, Connected’s Managing Director, Joel Zien, offers a meaningful insight into how to get different business units working together more effectively.

Four Ways to Increase Product Collaboration Between Innovation and Execution Teams

Tue Jan 16

  • Strategy

3 Takeaways from CES 2018

Like many consultants in the software space, I went to CES this year. Infamous for its energy and scale, CES is so noisy that it can be hard for...

3 Takeaways from CES 2018