Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

By the time you see revenue (or a lack of it)—whether it’s in a dashboard, cash in the bank, or a cancellation notice from a churned customer—it’s too late to take corrective action. We will sell into new customer segments (from SMBs to Enterprises or from parents to grandparents). What is a lagging indicator?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company’s core services include software and mobile development, blockchain solutions, testing, and quality assurance. Design and consulting constitute roughly 5% of the total service portfolio. Here is how the company defines itself in terms of its services focus: Source: Goodfirms. Its client portfolio is diverse too.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. My team serviced retirement plans and employee stock plans for two clients, TWA Pilots and Nalco Chemical Company (now called Nalco Water). At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. As a product leader and team builder, Nicholas is a seasoned technology executive, and an industry expert with extensive experience in platform from mobility to location services to music and media.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

HackerNoon reports PMs outpaced average job growth in the US by 5X in recent years!) Data competence. These are all questions you’ll need to answer, and you’ll want to be able to manipulate the raw data yourself. You’ll predict trends and monitor competition. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

We’ve grouped them into 6 categories, for you to browse easily: Leadership. 1 – Leadership. What do we believe – our gut or the data? What do you really need to help management interpret data and create analytical experiments that provide design insights? Product & UX. Building Teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI is poised to bring about a significant transformation in the enterprise sector. The AI Journey So Far The encouraging news is that most enterprises have already embarked on their artificial intelligence journey over the past decade years. The future of enterprise productivity is here, and generative AI powers it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Up until this point, to understand our customers, we had primarily relied on the Jobs-to-be-Done framework , product sense, research insight, sales input, and a belief that our customers were companies just like us. Before diving into the data, I recommend establishing a shared definition of success at the project’s outset.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A  but not in consulting days or developer hours or use-it-or-lose-it prepaid service agreements.  There’s

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

JUNE 10, 2020

I recently teamed up with Austrian customer Raiffeisen Bank , Dutch partner Connected Data Group , and German partner QuinScape to deliver a webinar entitled “Next-Generation Data Virtualization Has Arrived.” We talked about Erik’s latest insights on the European data and analytics market as well as his fast-growing business.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Download our Q2 FY22 earnings report here. When EMC decided to move from their Data Center deployments to Cloud, they saw a unique chance to make long-lasting improvements. “We Of note: approximately one-third of total Cloud migrations in Q2 came from Data Center. Wins for enterprise customers. No worries!

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”    With lots of gray space between the two.   (Idealized, I know.) 

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

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Gainsight

MAY 10, 2021

The recent proliferation of streaming services has led to an abundance of original content. He and the Delphix leadership team were tasked with defining and implementing a five-year roadmap to achieve world-class customer success. Mary has over 20 years of business consulting and executive leadership experience.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

 Usually the discussion is highly technical: APIs, data transformation, feature ladders.  But  But most of the migration failures I see are driven by organizations’ unwillingness or inability to stick with the very hard choices that B2B/enterprise migrations demand.  We

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2020

But tools don’t do our thinking for us. Internal cost savings requests are usually about a tool or app or process that will help some of our employees do more / faster / better work. “A A smarter search tool will help our Support team find solutions to frequent customer issues faster and reduce time to close tickets.”

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One  And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Will you be able to use it without data? Know how to leverage them, but know how to work around them as well Their motivations are different from either the company that wants to acquire you or you as one that is being acquired Is enterprise value being considered in the rationale for acquiring a company?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. Using these ideological tools for your own sanity is great. almost nobody talks about customer needs.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, even the conscientious objectors among us might not realize that they are indirectly purchasing from Amazon via Amazon Web Services (AWS) or its many subsidiaries. foot fungal cream, a family-sized bag of chips, and a pair of sweatpants) and the apps and services supported by AWS. All services are billed based on usage.”.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve spoken to these SaaS CEOs about a variety of topics—everything from: Leadership and org decisions. Benchmarking data. Are they good for SMB or enterprise? In addition, several exec search firms have set up strong practices around CS leadership. Organization : “Should CS report into Sales or another org?”.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. I became more interested in UX and product, and over the years, transitioned to becoming a data & AI product manager. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. They don’t have nearly the same resources as their larger, enterprise-class competitors who can outspend you. Even if your product is functionally superior, larger companies can fund more loss-leading land grabs and concierge-level customer service.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. How do we increase predictability, eliminate drama and have fewer emergencies? And a notional medium-term roadmap is very handy, since it may take several quarters to build out some substantial enterprise value.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I’m a 35 year veteran of Silicon Valley enterprise software which obviously means I’m not that smart I should’ve done something better and easier. And for the last decade or so I’ve been doing a combination of things around enterprise software product management. And then we’ll dive right into it.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

Do you want them to think of you as an email tool? an analytics tool? So this is a screenshot of a tool called YNAB which is short for you need a budget. Now if you’re talking about quick growth this may not be the tool for you but for personal finances it was great, until it wasn’t.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

With a background in chemistry and pharmacology and being an MIT MBA with a focus on finance and economics, Isa’s corporate career started at Pfizer where she was a chemist and data scientist before moving to JP Morgan Chase. I became the youngest actually head of digital product for all of small business banking. Well I did.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Jason Fried is co-founder of Basecamp, a private company based in Chicago that builds the best web tools possible with the least number of features necessary. We’re best known for our product Basecamp which is a project management and collaboration tool We just launched a new thing called Hey recently which is a brand new email service.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Alfonso de la Nuez, UserZoom’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, discusses how we now live in a world of digital experiences and in order for modern companies to survive, they need to democratize UX insights throughout the entire organisation. . All right, so are we ready to democratize the UX insights? Thank you for joining us.

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