Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

She is the Head of Merchant Growth and Monetization for Google’s B2B ecommerce business, where she is leading efforts to build the next $1B+ B2B business for the company. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. To help us, Neha Bansal is with us.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

Our team’s vision, focus, talents, and hard work were central to achieving this milestone. No platform existed for B2B companies looking to make educational content available to customers. A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Important roadmap deadlines? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Themes—Not Dates—Are the Stars of Your Roadmap. A product roadmap conveys the strategic direction and goals of your product.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2018

That is the question faced by B2B product leaders Courtesy of Street Smart Product Manager Product roadmaps and I have a complicated relationship. Tweet this ) WHY is our roadmap relationship so complicated? Roadmaps change and evolve frequently. Product roadmaps create a false illusion of future certainty.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.    IMHO, sorting backlogs and setting roadmaps based only on multi-column spreadsheets or cost of delay or WSJF is fundamentally flawed.  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Let’s dive in! How to upskill as a product manager.

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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”. These problems indicate a “big opportunity” (i.e., How are we doing? strategy?—?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Andrea’s unique perspective and critical thinking have led her to contest a number of well-established notions in Product Management: from NPS, through KPIs and OKRs , Product Roadmaps , to Product Prioritization Framework – Andrea takes no prisoners.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Imagine a B2B software company selling a downloadable app that enterprises install on their machines. Add these and other strategic priorities to the product roadmap (or create a standalone digital transformation roadmap ). ” They’ll enthusiastically share their vision with the development team.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

For product folks the pressure’s on to revise your roadmap and short-term strategy to account for a narrowing budget, and shifting customer priorities. Chances are you need to rethink your roadmap. To keep morale up, keep communicating the mission and vision for the company and remind people the work they’re doing is important.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Type of product (B2B, B2C). Product leadership style. Evaluating ideas.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. This is my attempt to fill that information void for product teams working on B2B products and the B2B sales leaders that want to love them. Need pricing plan inspiration?

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) software products, particularly those that have been around a long time, face a unique challenge when it comes to user experience. What are the opportunities that a redesign would provide: to update our pricing and packaging, sales processes, or thought leadership position in the market?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’ve broken up the senior product manager interview questions guide into the following categories: Product Management Questions Product Planning Questions Product Strategy Questions Leadership Questions Let’s take a look at the questions in each category.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

project managers or SMEs guiding roadmaps) A Product Development Health Check can help identify issues in your product development practice, find the underlying causes and give you ideas about how to address them. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. Without a vision statement, it’s impossible to commit to long-term roadmaps.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Customer Advisory Boards When product leaders join any organization, regardless of the size or industry, one of the first things they do is to try to garner how their organization and product teams have been getting customer feedback and validation of the roadmap and vision. Their customers are at the center of all their decisions.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There’s a lot you won’t find in other product management books; for example, a comprehensive review of different types of roadmaps, how to get to the next level in your product management career, and a product management skills self-assessment. You’ll find a lot of great advice and fine points of product leadership.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Without that leadership, products can and will flounder at every turn. The important thing here is that each product vision supports the portfolio vision. Let’s have a look see!

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

B2B product management has always been strategic. There’s no blank slate; there’s simply the product manager’s vision for what it could be. Level Up Your Customer Experience: product innovators share what they are doing to unify experiences in and out of the product, cultivate advocates, and build a roadmap to delight users.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is a partial transcript of Nick and Gainsight’s vision of the future of customer success. So on the top, human first leadership, the idea is basically, although customer success as we’ll talk about is a lot about data analytics and renewals and things like that. Another theme is the idea of human first leadership.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Goals: Understand the company Strategy, including Mission, Vision, context for identifying opportunities, and Goals (include links to relevant assets) Dive into the product development lifecycle and ask yourself: How do the stages differ from what you’ve seen at other companies?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sure, this is similar to other C-level tech leadership roles, but COOs, CTOs and Chief Revenue Officers are, I’d argue, a little less nebulous in their scope than ‘Product’. It could mean a B2B enterprise strategy was pursued, didn’t generate any traction but is still reflected in the product’s language and marketing.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

San Jose, CA $150 – $199 / hr Website Development, Digital Design, Digital Strategy, Search Engine Optimization, SaaS and B2B Marketing Netrix Digital Netrix Digital is a woman-owned design company delivering world-class experiences. We discuss the project’s background, vision, and goals, and conduct stakeholder interviews.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Her focus in on developing client inputs within a SaaS strategic roadmap process.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Within a B2B company, I found that there was alignment between the corporate strategy and the business unit strategy, but neither of these matched the functional strategies within the organization and were never implemented. Is the team delivering value every sprint? The key types of decisions that the team should be implementation decisions?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Her focus in on developing client inputs within a SaaS strategic roadmap process.

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