ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We spend lots of time praising the savvy strategic moves of winning products and companies. But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? Those are slogans, not strategies.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? For example, the target group might be too big and diverse; there might be too many needs stated and they are too unspecific; the business goals might be unclear; or the standout features might be weak. What is its value proposition?

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Early in my career, around 2000, I was working for a 100-year-old company looking to make pioneering moves on this new-fangled thing called the Internet. To do this, we need to understand which decisions underperform rapidly and then course correct. Using the Product VCP I align stakeholders, underpin decisions and empower teams.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

With that in mind, I’m pulling back the curtain with a practical look at how to analyze your organization’s readiness, identify your priorities, and create an action plan to guide your company through the complexities of AI adoption. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

To increase the value of the company? I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Idea creation : Use ChatGPT to generate new feature ideas , campaigns, blog post topics, product differentiation ideas, and more. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. The product’s key differentiators or unique selling proposition. The company’s business goals for the product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 12, 2022

In the B2B space, why can a product manager nail the customer’s need, solve the market problem in a differentiated way, have compelling results that make the case, and still hit a wall? New products require change, and change is difficult for most companies. Companies engineer systems and processes to prevent unnecessary change.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. Questions not to ask There are such things as bad questions when you’re interviewing a user.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. It delivers crucial information about the company, the product, the niche it’s designed for, and the cost. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Some of them were lucky to start in a tech company with APM program and picked up more skills over the years. Also who is to define “good” in various industries and companies? What product management really means in the context of the company? How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To define the product vision , product managers need to take their market research results along with the company objectives and use them to outline what they want the product to be like in the future. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. The business strategy provides the company with the basis for making the right investment decisions. Clearly describe the areas in which the company will compete to fulfil its aspiration.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. At Intercom, we’ve developed the GEMS framework to help everyone on our teams achieve best-in-class written communication. Prospects and customers can only subscribe to that ideology if they experience it firsthand with our teams”.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators. Imagine we’re a SaaS company selling logistics software that helps companies track their shipments, warehouse inventory, goods reordering, and time-versus-shipping-cost analytics.  Our

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

It is at this point that companies need to focus on bringing their privacy ecosystem up to the required standards. The principle behind GDPR is to make companies more accountable for the data they hold and the way they handle it. For platform companies such as Intercom, we plug into other products and platforms as needed.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. Even if you are advertising in order to build your brand (think Coca-Cola or Nike), you are educating the market on the kind of company you are (or the kind you want to be, but that’s for a different post).

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The internal pressure to deliver faster and more frequently often leaves product teams feeling like they have to slim down the scope of a feature, change the architecture, or make design decisions, all in the name of expediency. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Summary of Part 1: The Mission is an ambitious and unchanging statement reflecting the company's purpose. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Companies are typically formed to meet the needs of one ICP.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TL;DR The article underscores the importance of 1 to 5 rating scale surveys & how it has helped me in my PM journey, exploring their simplicity, versatility, and impact on user-centric product development. Semantic Differential Scale 5. A user might rate a product they purchased online with 1 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) stars.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

This line of thinking is where success at achieving the First Opportunity and the BigVision begins to get derailed before you and your team have even started working. BigVision’s Product Research & Development teams begin researching customers, the business model and the industry. We’ll come back to these.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Growth is arguably the most defining and sought-after trait of technology companies. Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today's PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. The process grants valuable customer insights companies can leverage.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. What’s important to my company? In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

You probably thought that companies only used one type of persona for sales, marketing, feature adoption , and everything else. Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. What is a persona?

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