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Most Financial Planning & Analysis vendors aren’t sticking with their positions long enough to claim them

Messages that Matter

Messages that Matter Messages that Matter Thirteen out of seventeen Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) vendors have changed their positions since my last assessment conducted in May 2022. Only Kepion has done it right by sticking with the same unique position – “Planning your way” – for more than three years.

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How Product Marketing Roadmaps Drive Sales | Shifting Market, Shifting Strategy | Agile: We’ve Come Full Circle

Product Management University

The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth. Enjoy our August issue.

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The Biggest Difference Between Product Management and Portfolio Management

Product Management University

When you combine a simple portfolio SWOT analysis with market growth forecasts, the data paints a very clear and factual picture of your most lucrative market segments in pecking order. Those market segment priorities are just as valuable for product marketing and sales as they are product management.

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Crafting a Useful Positioning Statement

Actuation Consulting

A strong positioning statement is an important ingredient for success. In this post we share some tips for developing a well thought out positioning statement. What is a Positioning Statement? A well-crafted positioning statement brings together your overall value proposition with your positioning for a product.

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Book review: “Product Roadmaps Relaunched”

bpma ProductHub

I had set out to create a software product for roadmapping but soon discovered people don’t have good processes that support roadmapping. As companies adopt agile and lean methodologies, there was clear need for education on a new way to manage product roadmaps”. “I wanted to do a book like this for a long time.

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The Solutions Manager Role In Its Purest Form. Consider It!

Product Management University

It feeds product management, product marketing, sales and customer success teams, and has no intended alignment to any products. Its mission is to deliver pure, unbiased customer business requirements to all customer-facing functions, especially product management, product marketing and sales.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Will the product make a positive impact on people’s lives, the wider society, and the planet, or will it at least not cause any harm ? How might people use the product? What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? Analyse the data collected to understand how your product is doing.