The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position. Beautiful and intuitive visual and UX design.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Our ultimate goal at Human API is to have a B2C play where we create a marketplace for the consumer to do even more with their health data,” says Lisa. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). Agile Leadership Summit. This conference has targeted sessions and speakers for product managers, business leaders, and technology marketers.

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode 5 experienced product leaders who've led product at start-up, growth and mature companies in B2B and B2C categories share what they found most surprising when they first led product management teams. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode 5 experienced product leaders who've led product at start-up, growth and mature companies in B2B and B2C categories share what they found most surprising when they first led product management teams. Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, SPINS. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode 5 experienced product leaders who've led product at start-up, growth and mature companies in B2B and B2C categories share what they found most surprising when they first led product management teams. Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, SPINS. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Macro: Refers to the macro environment which encompasses the current state of technology, culture, economics, politics, and your industry. Do the points above apply to both B2B and B2C? ” If you find yourself in this spot, work with leadership to identify priorities and align resources to the agreed priorities.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( B2B is lumpier than B2C.). Each promise eventually creates its own bit of chaos: escalations, account reviews, executive interventions, demands for quick fixes to hard problems.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager. Type of product (B2B, B2C). Product leadership style. Technical Product Manager role. What does a product manager do?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After witnessing firsthand the strong relationship between analytics, product, and performance, Andrew grew a passion for making data integration a top priority for everyone–even for traditionally non-technical roles. I started in a Technology Leadership Rotational Program at Levi Strauss & Co. Current Company : Looker.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. For type of product, B2C and B2B is just the first layer. Inside B2C / B2B, it can still be very different.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to their executive leadership, Community is a must-have. And rightfully so—especially in tech, it’s not easy out there right now. Although an integrated self-service environment is already common in the world of B2C, we are spearheading this in B2B right now, And, as witnessed by Robin, the excitement is palpable.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Second, the product manager’s delivery requirements will usually be the big development items in an organisation’s technology roadmap. Making a decision without knowing the impact on our core customer segments (B2C) or our biggest customers (B2B) means we will be at risk of delivering something that is perhaps irrelevant or irritating.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 23, 2022

Those people will attempt to use the product to solve problems, improve processes and outcomes, or—for B2C products —to simply have a little fun, distract themselves, connect with others, or learn something new. Instead, great product leaders allow their product teams to immerse themselves into the world of their users.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. We couldn’t do any of the basic user analytics that I know my friends at B2C companies did in their sleep. In reviewing a feature. In reviewing a feature. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap.

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Revulytics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In his webinar, experienced B2C and B2B product leader Tim Herbig , author of Lateral Leadership: A Practical Guide for Agile Product Management , shows how to be a data-informed product manager. It’s mostly used by data analytics managers, though if you’re a more technical product manager, you might run some queries there yourself.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There’s a lot you won’t find in other product management books; for example, a comprehensive review of different types of roadmaps, how to get to the next level in your product management career, and a product management skills self-assessment. You’ll find a lot of great advice and fine points of product leadership.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. Therefore, the first question any aspiring agile startup should answer for itself is simple: is it a sales-driven, product-driven, or tech-driven enterprise? ‘Fast-growing’ in the sense of this article refers to startups of at least 200 staff strong.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 22, 2019

For others, CS is taking on more revenue-related activities , like upsell and expansion, or marketing-related activities like advocacy —be it reviews, event speakers, advisory councils, success stories, and more. . B2B might work differently than B2C. Responsibilities will shift and so will KPIs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content.

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Userzoom

MARCH 28, 2018

Even in the B2B sector, where a lot of times people go, “This makes sense with B2C, but it doesn’t make sense to B2B,” but that’s actually wrong because the truth is the same people who are buying and using consumer apps are also B2B purchasers. Your customers define your brand identity. You go and make a decision.”

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That   “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Prior to joining Sequent Learning Networks as Vice President, JJ spent 18 years in various leadership roles in the financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries for companies such as First Data, T-Mobile and American Hospital Association. How to manage tech debt. I find it fun. . How to prioritize a backlog.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. It it at the intersection of customer, tech, and business which means that everyone function in an organization is impacted by the product. Sales has to sell it. Marketing has to talk about it.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: We had done a lot of consumer research upfront because our company started as a B2C. A designer would come up with some multiple ideas and then be like, “What if we did this or this or which ones are technically feasible?” Who else at the company was engaging with your customers? Where did that knowledge come from?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

The last 12 of those have been in leadership positions. After about two and a half years there I joined Sprinklr , a social media management technology company, and was there for three years as a divisional vice president. The only exception is some B2C work with financial services and insurance companies.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. These often come from visible, credible consumer tech companies with household names and high transaction volumes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Your own passion for the job and desire to show leadership, the feeling of being irreplaceable; these can be strong arguments to hang around way after you are truly needed. Because a new trend is quickly gaining traction in tech and product management: remote work. And not just for freelancers.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This typically happens due to unhealthy work-life balances, unclear expectations, and toxic work environments to name a few. I know a friend of mine who was mentally unhappy in a B2B product but found his true calling in a B2C product. have been working on a product leadership report and we would love to have your voice in it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You don’t have to just have great, you know, enterprise grade back-end, you have to have fantastic consumer grade front-end as well, whether you’re in B2C or B2B, doesn’t matter. And this is what happened to Snapchat last year, big redesign, and they got all kinds of bad reviews, right, and social media. Fear no more.

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