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Are You Leveraging Your Customer’s First Experience with Your Product Effectively?

The Product Coalition

Early in my career, I led the implementation of a supply chain analytics module from SAP (enterprise resource planning software). I lead an enterprise software company in the healthcare space. What every great consultant does?—?I SSO wasn’t as prevalent then as it is today in large enterprises. True story. What did I do?

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Crafting Success: How Understanding Context Transforms Product Development

The Product Coalition

It is also good exercise when you live near a mountain. And why is McKinsey, the world’s premier management consulting firm, talking about it? And this is where most products break — enterprise and consumer, professional and personal. Work through an exercise I like to call ‘what would change if…’. Good question.

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time. Michael soon found a job at a management consulting firm as a Business Analyst working with different technology companies from startups to large enterprises. The first step to good communication is active listening.

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Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy

Mironov Consulting

Let’s expand my December scenario: A mid-tier enterprise software company wants to grow 25%+ next year.  I think of this first as an organizational and company culture question, not first as a Porter -meets-slideware-meets-research exercise.    Product management malpractice.   So What Might We Do?

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Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery

Mironov Consulting

 Developers, designers, product managers, tech writers, test engineers, DevOps, cloud hosting, security consultants, productivity software, laptops, office space, health insurance, payroll taxes, Zoom, Jira, recruiting, training, logo hoodies, sprint review donuts , copies of Managing the Unmanageable. Enough preamble.  Here’s

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Static vs Dynamic Alert Thresholds for Monitoring

eG Innovations

Enterprise grade products and native cloud monitoring (e.g., In a large enterprise, a monitoring tool that provides visibility into the different network, server, and application tiers can collect millions of metrics. Having to set thresholds manually for every single metric is a very time-consuming, monotonous exercise.

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How pricing strategy helps shape your entire business model

Intercom, Inc.

“Think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end and enterprise at the other” As you scale and evolve your business, there are a few key questions to ask as you determine your pricing strategy: Do you anchor off competitors (if any exist) or substitutes? Enterprise Level ($100,000 +).

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