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Why Product Management for B2B Needs to be Different From B2C

Mind the Product

However once enterprises are on board, product managers have a great opportunity to get speedy customer feedback and validations on features as well as the roadmap – which can be a little tricky in the consumer space. In the B2B world your customer is not a name and number that looks the same as any other. Customer Insights.

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Product Strategy Lessons From Henry Ford

The Product Coalition

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. No product serves everyone. If your product is for “everyone” (in B2C) or “every SMB/Enterprise” (in B2B), think again. Instead of being special, it was very specific.

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The Sales Funnel Isn’t Really a Funnel

The Product Coalition

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. would ask why it is important to continue refining even the finest details.

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Creating Clarity in a Complex Reality

The Product Coalition

The signals are always mixed, and with no clear incentive to come to a conclusion, it’s no wonder that the most common answer to product leadership questions is the professional equivalent of the romantic “It’s complicated”, namely “It depends”. Not because the reality is black and white, but because otherwise you can’t see clearly.

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Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes

Product Talk

Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Marty Cagan highlighted this in his recent post “ Product Strategy – Focus.” That new or different human behavior becomes the product outcome that focuses the work of a product team.

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How Product Managers Should Define and Use The Product Persona

Userpilot

We also look at the process of building a product persona, the data you need to collect, and some user persona examples that you can use for your SaaS. Product personas are fictional characters that represent real users. Product personas help product managers keep alignment between the product and its vision.

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Four Fundamental Mistakes You Are Making With Product OKRs

The Product Coalition

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well.