Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. But when it comes to work, and especially strategy related decisions, let me be very clear: FOMO is not a good reason to pivot. You should.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product management and leadership speakers.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If The success of a product is reliant on strong, integrated teams that work together to bring the product’s vision to life. However, his career took a different turn when he started at Intuit’s corporate and strategy side. That’s the job I want.”.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

What does leadership entail in the context of design? How does an organization benefit from strong design leadership? Hired as external consultants, researchers, and product designers, sometimes we are asked to join an existing product team and help in transforming an organization from the inside. . Listen first.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Being on the inside of a company as it takes off is a special kind of experience – and being in a product leadership position while that’s going on gives a unique viewpoint. He joins us on the podcast to share some of his war stories and to guide us on creating a strategy for building a defensible advantage. Related Links.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

When I participated in the live discussions about the same topics, I realized that some of the gaps are due to perspective: So many of the companies I work with (either the few that I am personally consulting to, or among the CPO Bootcamp participants) are startups or scaleups, and only a small number are larger corporations. Stay tuned.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. The 12 lessons will cover the tactics, strategies and mindsets that underpin the 3 steps thinking. Where do I manage the roadmap?

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These leaders, embody a new era of Customer Success (CS) and Community leadership, where innovation and empathy converge to redefine customer satisfaction. She underscores the rising prominence of digital strategies, particularly Digital Customer Success (DCS), as the next frontier. We’re moving toward a need.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It all starts with a commitment from leadership that strategic thinking and planning are worth the time and makes it a core tenet of the team’s approach. This is how I might look at it: Strategy = Needed features = Approximate confined time with great value. I’ve found it’s better first to define strategy.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? They already own a vision, a revenue number, a team to inspire and coach, day-to-day execution, and every last individual customer. Any great consultant needs to know the right questions to ask, though. Your VP of CS?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

The future back strategy for product managers. Innosight is an innovation management consultancy founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson. Traditional strategy drives core business but doesn’t create breakthrough products or new business models. 9:56] How does your future back approach to strategy work?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

Whether that product is a software application, a physical doo-dad of some kind, or a service like consulting or transportation, or warehousing, every company provides some value to customers in exchange for compensation. Moreover, a product-led organization is one whose product team plays a central role in strategy and decision-making.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Embracing a growth mindset, communicating a product vision and strategy and striving for early-market success are all steps toward growth and prosperity. If they trust your expertise and knowledge, they are more inclined to buy-in to your product vision. There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. CEO of Product Labs. Author of “The Build Trap”. How to create a scalable product organization.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. Product-Led Onboarding will teach you a simple six-step strategy used by successful companies like Mixpanel to retain more customers. 6-step strategy for retaining more customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Image: Silicon Valley, HBO The epic Pied Piper case study shows us what it really takes to build a business from scratch A TV show rife with obscene jokes and obscure pop-culture references might seem like an odd place to look for leadership lessons. Or you can’t communicate your vision for your company. in the military).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. As a staff engineer, a lot of your energy goes into cross-team collaboration for the vision and strategy. I’m an individual contributor (IC) and I’m not on any leadership track.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

As Kim Garst states in her quote, the fundamental principle to win first reference customers in the mainstream market is to target a specific niche market as your point of attack and focus all your resources on achieving the dominant leadership position in that segment as quickly as possible. Two Waves Book, 2020. (4) Wiley, 2010.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Just two years ago, only 29% of marketers reported ABM to be an effective strategy. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a targeting strategy where businesses market and sell to accounts – different people at one company – rather than to individual prospects at many different companies. Source: ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance ).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. But it’s important for both sales and product leadership to remember you can’t “table stakes” your way to a dominant market position. You need to differentiate.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. of a Chief Product Officer Obsession with the customer’s problem Business savvy Design focus Data-driven thinking Insatiable curiosity Technical fluency Vision How to Become a CPO? Developing product vision.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”. Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers.

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Product Club

JANUARY 6, 2019

For me, 2018 was filled with inspiring and varied individuals and leadership styles. Several leaders had a big impact on my personal and professional development in 2018, as I made a transition from consulting on product and engineering strategy and execution with TribalScale in MENA to an internal product role with OLX Group in Europe.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. In smaller companies and startups, both need to have a clear and firm understanding of the product strategy. But there are numerous differences that keep these two roles separate.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. In fact, 83.9%

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Furthermore, these changes impact every employee, sparked by a significant overhaul of leadership, introducing disruptive new technologies, adhering to new policies or regulations, or experiencing mergers and acquisitions. Change Management Strategies. Defining success and how to track it goes hand-in-hand with the vision.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public joins Michael Luchen, Director of Product Management at Crema , a digital product agency creating web and mobile apps for disruptive companies and industry leaders, and the resident host of The Product Manager podcast. About Bain Public.

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