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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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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy.    If another executive claims company strategy as their bailiwick , we gracefully back off and let them drive.]

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A Primer on Business Strategy From Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers

Sachin Rekhi

Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. A sound strategy can make the difference between our initial product/market fit being ephemeral versus the beginning of a meaningful and lasting business. He then further refined his concepts as a business strategy professor at Stanford University.

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5 Truths of Building a Product Launch Strategy

Amplitude

It’s about adapting your marketing, product and go-to-market strategy to give your product the best chance at wide market penetration and adoption. In this context, your product launch strategy isn’t just a plan for launch execution. Your strategy should also account for the sales period after launch day.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Imbuing Product Strategy

The Product Guy

Product management requires product strategy. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. To my surprise, the key need across my multiple products was to identify and drive the product strategy. Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay].

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Statistical Factors that Contribute to High Performance on Product Teams

bpma ProductHub

Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. Conversely, product managers who lack knowledge of the corporate strategy have no grounding from which to effectively develop useful multi-year product strategy, nor the tools to motivate their teams.