Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. So, I am currently CEO of CX Journey, Inc, which is a customer experience consultancy. Plus I’ve had three stints on the client-side, working on customer experience strategy, or running the CX group there.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

That’s just a couple of questions I asked Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz and Jakub Jukowski of Valueships , a leading pricing optimization consultancy. From the article, you will learn why you should develop a value-based growth strategy for your SaaS and how to do it. How does it fit into the product-led growth strategy ?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every relationship where you help people initially has a power differential. Let’s think of products as a differentiated delivery mechanism of some value exchange. Who has the power? Is it me communicating best practices or is it them inviting me in because they’re a prospective customer?”. I enjoy product.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

ONE Powerful Word That Can Transform Your Customer Relationships with the incredible Nils Vinje, Founder and CEO at Glide Consulting and 30 Day Leadership. Major Takeaways: “Customer education activates customer success.” You must ensure that the differentiation is clear. Make it easy for them to use, find, and to join.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Innovatemap

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Faced with a workforce that can be composed of five generations and the pressure to offer competitive, differentiating benefits packages, companies are creating more personalized offerings and expanding voluntary benefits to meet a broad range of needs and lifestyles, from tuition reimbursement to retirement planning. Data & Analytics.

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Mixpanel

JULY 27, 2020

Though the term often brings to mind SaaS heavyweights like Slack, Atlassian and Shopify, the principles at its core are quite simple: Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the main vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers. Now, it’s time to spread the word. You’re not running a charity.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

What kind of education do you need to be a PMM? Big tech companies, who look for more differentiated candidates, are especially likely to prefer MBA candidates for PMM roles. For those in consulting, try to find projects working with companies in an industry with product marketing managers such as tech.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. So I use it as a forcing function to clarify my thinking around a thing that I’ve been doing both when I was a VP marketing, working inside companies, but also as a, as a consultant, a thing that I’ve been doing with my clients a lot. They’re teaching for differentiation.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the same time other companies are starting to use carbon-neutral products to differentiate themselves from their competitors. The amount of money that brands Schick are going to put into marketing the sustainable products could instead be spent to educate people on the benefits of refillable systems.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. Then later on, I did some management and digital consulting as well. “ Innovation is not something completely brand new. .” Viktor: Yeah.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Thus, attracting great junior talent and developing them is an effective strategy both from an output and budgetary perspective. Drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for your product area.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Thus, attracting great junior talent and developing them is an effective strategy both from an output and budgetary perspective. Drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for your product area.

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Userzoom

APRIL 23, 2020

As practitioners, it often falls to us to educate key stakeholders in the organization about the value UX delivers. Answer: Testing a new product/feature and gathering the right metrics requires a solid understanding of the product strategy and what drove the initiative. They may have consulted with industry experts.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Please note that this post is for educational purposes and is not intended to be an official Product Talk endorsement of any of the tools mentioned. Tweet This Marina Vytovtova works as a product consultant and is looking for a new full-time role.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Special thanks to SafraSofTech and Atomic Abject for opening business here 12 years ago, started InnovateRaleigh Catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship Didn’t know that there was an entrepreneur community until first innovators’ summit Lots of people showed up!

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a result, the CPO can facilitate product-led growth by developing a vision and strategy that fosters seamless production. These goals will be clearly defined in a product vision statement, which should make sure your team “gets excited about building the product” Developing a product strategy. Developing product vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

In fact, when we engaged Forrester Consulting, an independent research firm, in April 2021 to explore how channel preferences are changing, they found that preference for messaging-based support has significantly grown since the beginning of the pandemic. How conversational support delivers value across your entire organization.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. I’m a psychologist and a co-founder of The Rectangles , a UX design company and consultancy. Q&A with Alina Prelicz-Zawadzka of The Rectangles.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. So we were very excited about the idea that we could one day stop doing consulting work.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 15, 2016

Give me a brief description of your education and work history. If they were previously in engineering, marketing, consulting roles, or straight out of college, I want to make sure they understand the product management role and responsibilities. And I'll also ensure that the feature suggestion is aligned with our strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. For today’s episode, we’re sharing go-to-market insights from past interviews that have resonated with us.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In my nearly three decades of SaaS experience, I have come to believe that the biggest differentiator and value proposition of a software company is the community of people who use, improve, and advocate for your product. This is why community-led growth is one of the hottest durable growth strategies in SaaS today.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. I’m a psychologist and a co-founder of The Rectangles , a UX design company and consultancy. Q&A with Alina Prelicz-Zawadzka of The Rectangles.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Frameworks can’t save you I believe one technique we’ve evolved to escape this tyranny of distractions and a lack of autonomy was to add credibility to the product management role through self-improvement, with a big focus on strategy and management concepts. Then, you can just get on with things.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

And then when I switched over to consulting after leaving my in-house role I set up an account to also manage the business finances. Really in a lot of their marketing strategy but improving their messaging was a big part of her process. Which again really informs marketing strategy. Has anyone used or familiar with YNAB.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2017

An educational software company might assign 30 large East Coast private universities to its Boston-based sales rep.) Will this be a “checkbox item” or strong differentiation for us and our customers? Understanding this dynamic helps us unpack discussions between product managers and B2B sales/support teams about feature requests (i.e.

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