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Who to Satisfy? Differentiate Buyers, Users, and Customers for Effective Product Decisions

Johanna Rothman

In product development, we often use the words, “user” and “customer” interchangeably. Consultants do this all the time when they sell workshops. And sometimes, the Buyer delegates the content of the workshop to the Customer.) Enterprise product developers often have “preferred” or ideal Buyers.

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Leveraging New Technologies: 3 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. You talk to the development team, and the team members suggest that machine learning is likely to be the right solution.

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Consulting Tip 5: How to Think About Business Models to Avoid Commodity Work & Commodity Fees

Johanna Rothman

For example, people know me for my expertise in managing product development. I offer custom workshops to my clients at a much higher fee. Sometimes, those facilitation techniques are part of a workshop, but more often as consulting. I added value by running internal workshops on how to hire my replacement manager.

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How To Climb The Product Marketing Career Ladder Faster

Product Management University

Do this for your top 3-5 market segments and then develop lead generation campaigns with messaging that’s industry specific. That credibility is often what differentiates you in the end. They custom developed one-off modules on a contract basis for customers that needed functionality not yet in demand by the broader market.

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Ship Decisions: Use Value to Decide When to Experiment and When to Finalize

Johanna Rothman

That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. I'll use my product development as an example to explain how my experimentation and finalization work.

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Tips for Effective Product Strategy Reviews

Roman Pichler

Use Collaborative Workshops to Review and Adapt the Strategy. Collaborative workshops with the key stakeholders and development team members are a great way to jointly review and adjust the product strategy. Having a dedicated facilitator allows you to fully contribute to the workshop. Are there new market entrants?

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Writing Secret 9A: Choose How You Write: Prototype or Draft

Johanna Rothman

Even when I've offered workshops about the topic at hand, I always learn when I write. If you want to experiment with me, please see Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. You still have time to register for the next workshop, which starts May 19. Check out the workshop.)