The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . Balancing the Agile Enterprise .

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

We retailed stores and we sold to companies, including tech companies, and after taking a bit of a break and doing some traveling, I came back to Dublin and took a look around and tech was really beginning to boom. And because I’d sold bicycles to most of the tech companies in Dublin, I had some good contacts.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I would also propose that companies should never differentiate between Product Managers and Product Marketers while hiring and they should encourage transition into one role from another. Having played both roles immensely helps us build a long-term product and business vision. It happened with me too. This blog does the opposite.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Different products require different visions. Whereas Facebook’s overall vision relies heavily on third-party developers having access to user data, Workplace wants to be the app that’s connected to all your other apps and a highly curated marketplace that has the best SaaS applications in the world. What’s your differentiator?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. Features, you could argue then, are what drives revenue for SaaS products as enterprise customers shift packages to get access to more of the features they need, reducing the feature deficit they experience on a lower end package.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 14, 2022

For an organization to follow through and turn that idea into a viable product, the team needs both a product vision and a product strategy. This article will discuss why the best products require both vision and strategy and their codependent nature. Product vision. The product vision itself isn’t achievable in the short term.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Product Management Is Stuck In The Past Technology has changed a lot in the past few decades, and with it people have changed as well. And while we’re struggling to win buy-in for our roadmaps, other teams are rallying their entire organizations around a common vision for where their products are headed.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

This can incrementally add new capabilities to the product and potentially quell a few customer complaints, but without a a unified vision, it can also lead to a lot of partial fixes that don’t attack and solve major pain points in a holistic manner. Some enterprise clients may still get their personal wish list items fulfilled.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. Amazon is a multinational technology company known worldwide as a mega e-commerce marketplace. For Amazon, speed is a critical competitive differentiator.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Today, we announced a $200M Series C investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, marking a transformative period for us. We’ve arrived at this moment due to the collective vision, effort, and trust of each and every employee, customer, and partner we’ve been lucky enough to have on our team.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. This is what we did. Where will you play?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Product managers in more extensive enterprise settings can even operate under titles that don’t distinctly list out “product manager” in it. Having more time to dedicate to making strategic decisions than reactionary ones due to being stuck in a crazy busy state will pay dividends in your product career’s acceleration.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

9:15 Jason Cohen: Building your Permanent Defensible Strategy Slides from Jason Cohen’s Talk A glass of water at room temperature has 7 septillion molecules Each molecule is moving at twice the speed of sound If aligned, the water would shoot off at that speed (like a watersaw) In tech support, most tickets are produced by small clients, but (..)

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Product managers in more extensive enterprise settings can even operate under titles that don’t distinctly list out “product manager” in it. Having more time to dedicate to making strategic decisions than reactionary ones due to being stuck in a crazy busy state will pay dividends in your product career’s acceleration.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. Stanford was actually the only business school that I applied to because I specifically wanted to move out to the Bay Area and move into tech full-time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2022

I was speaking to foundations and corporations not about how we can use technology to solve their problems, but how we can address their goals around corporate social responsibility. In the very early days, we had about a dozen or so sales reps, and at the time, we were more focused on startups and mid-market growth technology companies.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

And for a PM, differentiation becomes more critical. The data you focus on seems to be a key differentiator in SaaS product management. Cast the vision, build the version. For customers more used to enterprise or custom-built software, they might expect one-off customizations or features they can heavily customize.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Prior to that, Adam held executive roles at Yesmail for over nine years, heading customer experience, product dev, and technology services teams. Are you selling more to enterprises? You have to have an understanding of how much of your business is enterprise versus SMB. Adam Strong: Thank you. Are you selling more to SMBs?

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