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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. The Simple Secret to Differentiation Think about someone you really enjoyed buying from. Solution Consultants and Differentiation Here’s the bottom line.

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Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent

Mironov Consulting

 And calling out the need for some honest discovery before we embark on major engineering efforts.  Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators.   (No ticketing system is good enough for my developers, but that’s a poor reason to build our own.)

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BI vs. product analytics: Key differentiators

Mixpanel

That means that BI analysis and visualizations can cover a wide swath of data on any facet of your business, whether from Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, or Product. The post BI vs. product analytics: Key differentiators appeared first on Mixpanel. Implementation. Ready to get started? Talk to a specialist today.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

The business value delivered hard numbers to the finance and actuarial teams. However, despite a strong, socially motivated purpose, TOMS struggled due to a lack of focus on business value and product differentiation. A purpose that resonates with the company’s audience can drive customer loyalty and brand differentiation.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

  And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.    But it’s of zero help to Product, Engineering, Marketing, or other organizations that need to make choices about the few critical things we’ll do next year.  

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He helped shape WallStreetBets. Now Kevin Xu is betting on his own social app.

Mixpanel

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. The reason I started posting my trades as Sir Jack is because it can feel really uncomfortable talking about finances under your real name. They say write what you know. Why wouldn’t the same go for building apps?

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Count The Digits

Mironov Consulting

But this crude method can help us differentiate ¥24M from  ¥60M, create some daylight between A$ 50k and A$700k, sort 2 lakh tickets from 80 lakh tickets.    Asking Engineering to size 250 things so we can choose 20 that show “high theoretical ROI” on our spreadsheet is a criminal waste of their time.)