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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. The Simple Secret to Differentiation Think about someone you really enjoyed buying from. I was a pre-sales solution consultant in my first software job.

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Differentiation continues to be elusive in the Business Intelligence & Analytics market

Messages that Matter

Messages that Matter Messages that Matter Assessment explains how BI vendors can easily solve the problem By Lawson Abinanti, Messages that Matter For the 10th year in a row, lack of differentiation permeates the Business Intelligence & Analytics market which made me imagine why and how to solve the problem.

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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

Don’t make decisions solely based on competitors, but know who your competitors are, their differentiating capabilities, their shortcomings, and how to shed light on their shortcomings without ever talking poorly about a competitor. Knowing their differentiating capabilities can help you capture market share away from your competitors. .

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. The post Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. I don't know how to offer the level of predictability they want for large and unchanging work.

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Consulting Tip 5: How to Think About Business Models to Avoid Commodity Work & Commodity Fees

Johanna Rothman

When consultants ask these questions, the consultants assume they are showing their unique value. They're showing how they only offer commodity, and too often, inadequate, consulting. Worse, these consultants give all consultants a bad name. I explain how in Successful Independent Consulting.)

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Who to Satisfy? Differentiate Buyers, Users, and Customers for Effective Product Decisions

Johanna Rothman

Consultants do this all the time when they sell workshops. Differentiate Buyers, Users, and Customers for Effective Product Decisions appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. If you create a mass-market product, you can choose when and as much access as you want. Often, senior management is the Buyer.

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344: State of product management performance in 2021 – with Greg Geracie

Product Innovation Educators

Returning with us is Greg Geracie the CEO of Actuation Consulting, a global provider of product management training, consulting, and advisory services to some of the world’s most well-known organizations. The study researches the factors that differentiate successful product teams from the rest of the pack.