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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

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. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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When going fast is not the same as going somewhere

The Product Coalition

Companies like Gillette, a P&G acquisition in 2005, integrated into P&G’s reinforcing rods and maintained a sustainable competitive advantages in their market. Porter differentiates between merely running in the same direction, s imple consistency, and working together to create synergy effects, reinforcement.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

2005 almost prehistoric… So let’s talk something a bit more recent targeting a younger population?—?Fortnite. And the investment / learning process that we’ve painfully gone through is what differentiates us from those who have yet to ‘join the elite club’. But Facebook is ancient some will say.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

2005 almost prehistoric… So let’s talk something a bit more recent targeting a younger population?—?Fortnite. And the investment / learning process that we’ve painfully gone through is what differentiates us from those who have yet to ‘join the elite club’. But Facebook is ancient some will say.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

It was a differentiator and a distinguisher, but that was in the 80’s and that’s over. Not a differentiator. I’ve been working at Agile since maybe 2005. In the 1980’s when I first joined the ranks of product managers, having a business case was actually an advantage. It was above average. Agile Development.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. Jenn got her break into the digital industry back in 2005 when her boss walked into the office and asked her to ‘figure out this whole digital download thing.’ James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.