Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.”  We won’t be accurate, of course, but we’ll be able to sort huge from tiny with a bit of practice.  They need something to run up their management and Finance chains for permission to buy our stuff.

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The Product Bistro

MAY 10, 2016

If you interact with finance teams, they often will refer to the marginal contribution, and this is what they are implying. The contribution margin is a quick and dirty way to capture the value of each sale, and how to capture the potential profit for a pricing change (increase or decrease) and the likely volume differential.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 6, 2024

In fact, the situation has gotten to a point that mental health is a key differentiator for candidates when evaluating employers, especially for Gen Z - the latest demographics to enter the workforce in large numbers. Do sales, marketing, finance, development, and design have the insight they need to support the company or team goals?

Customer Experience 59

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So, what actually differentiates a good UI design from a bad one? Bright animations might be overwhelming and irritating in a finance or stock exchange app, just like a plain design may not be the best choice for a dating app. It is the idea itself that matters, and of course the UI design that represents it.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2018

For example, if they are building an online education platform, they may define the ideal key behavior in concrete terms like, “Add online course schedule to their calendar, right after signing up for the course” or “Get to min 30 or 40 in their first online course.”.

Data Visualization 115

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Set up basic contextual onboarding to differentiate user experience. Here’s a rundown of some of the most important differentiating factors: Implementation. Of course, there’s a powerful user analytics dashboard as well so that you can segment and track user progress throughout the onboarding process.

Analytic Tools 98

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BrainMates

MARCH 23, 2020

You also need to have a deep understanding of how your business works; how your Product is marketed, sold, financed, (how it) generates money, security & privacy concerns, as well as compliance concerns,” Marty explains. Not differentiating qualitative and quantitative techniques and not knowing when to use each.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

The differentiating aspect of a Product Owner from a Product Manager is a Scrum team. A PM needs to have a solid understanding of the customer needs, market scenario, and, of course, the product itself. According to Produx Labs CEO Melissa Perri , “ Product Owner is a ROLE you play on a Scrum team. Product Manager is the JOB title. ”.

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In today’s modern business world is surprising that many retail, banking , finance , and manufacturing organizations still use legacy systems despite the fact that they need to be armed with real-time, up-to-date technologies and tools to be able to survive in the market. What Are The Major Issues With Legacy Systems?

Analytic Tools 59

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Research Software Reporting Tools 59

DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Beth Temple is a Product Consultant who’s helped a range of companies in media, finance, retail and healthcare avoid wasting resources on bad ideas. For example, when a multinational publishing company wanted to develop online business courses, Beth naturally began with customer development. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

Weak Development Team 53

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Of course, wasting money on an unwanted venture is the worst-case scenario. Yahoo Finance. Of course, if you’re entering a new market, you can’t do anything but estimate. You might end up investing and floating, but only just — which isn’t an ideal place to be in either. Company Information. Professional industry associations.

Positioning 69

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

One of your first hires should be someone who can nerd out on your company’s finances. If it’s not working, it’s easy to change course. Josh: With the survey software, I made the mistake of not differentiating myself enough from SurveyMonkey or the 10,000 other survey apps out there. But five years later, we are still here.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 9, 2019

An example of this strategy can be seen in the automotive industry where dealers aren’t necessarily making a lot of money on the cars, but they are making a nice profit on the associated services, financing, extended warranties, etc. Another strategy can be seen when companies engage in what we refer to as “market penetration” pricing.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Beth Temple is a Product Consultant who’s helped a range of companies in media, finance, retail and healthcare avoid wasting resources on bad ideas. For example, when a multinational publishing company wanted to develop online business courses, Beth naturally began with customer development. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback 40

DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Beth Temple is a Product Consultant who’s helped a range of companies in media, finance, retail and healthcare avoid wasting resources on bad ideas. For example, when a multinational publishing company wanted to develop online business courses, Beth naturally began with customer development. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback 40

Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

As a coach, having worked with countless organizations and executives over the years, from fortune 100 level to start-ups, I’ve reflected on all of the patterns I’ve seen displayed by C-suite level leaders and what differentiates those that have helped create sustainable agility versus those that don’t. . An excerpt of the model – .

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

I think the difference for me doing that global sales operations role at BrowserStack, being in the room every day with our C-levels, with the head of finance, with the head of recruitment, on a personal level, was fascinating, exciting, and scary all in equal measure. Unless, of course, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime offer.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

0:35 James Avery, Kevel: Yeah, we’re actually we, we decided to take a little break of locked out, of course, like everybody else, we’ve been stuck in our house, working from home, kids are going to school from home. 11:22 Mark: And were you considering equity finance at the same time? And so nice to see your cheery face.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

” Unique activities : Find the differentiators that make sense for you. which is an amazing paper and we’ve kind of evolved it, built on it so that our strategy has elements that are unique to us, of course, like anyone, but the main components are: Number one is that there are unique activities in the strategy. Paul: Yeah.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2024

This leads to improved brand awareness and differentiation from other brands. Differentiation : Inventive and engaging experiences help you stand out from the competition by showcasing your brand personality and values in a unique and memorable way. They also get a badge they can flaunt upon completion of the course.

Branding 105

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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

retail, healthcare) or horizontally (IT, finance, HR, etc.). The goal of structuring product marketing along segment lines is to differentiate your value at a higher level that speaks to the strategic aspirations of decision-makers. Structure product marketing by market segment instead of structuring it around products.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This pricing strategy works most effectively when there is little product differentiation. Of course, this strategy poses risks to companies as well. According to Corporate Finance Institute: “ Price penetration is not a viable long-term pricing strategy. Advantages and Disadvantages of a Penetration Pricing Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. From user problems to customer problems In enterprise software, you differentiate between the ones who buy your product (i.e., Therefore, Ben and Blair differentiate between customer and user problems. Sales and finance.

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Amplitude

APRIL 12, 2018

They are the leaders there and with the right amount of effort, you can set up the perfect visualization that helps explain to the executive team, the finance team, the sales team, what was the pattern on some data set over the last 12 months. And yeah, that’s basics, and of course Amplitude does that stuff too. That’s where they stop.

Data Visualization 40

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Amplitude

APRIL 12, 2018

They are the leaders there and with the right amount of effort, you can set up the perfect visualization that helps explain to the executive team, the finance team, the sales team, what was the pattern on some data set over the last 12 months. And yeah, that’s basics, and of course Amplitude does that stuff too.

Data Visualization 40

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Research Software 40

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

Which has caused a lot of confusion over the course of my career. It’s finance and budgeting software. So my husband and I have been using YNAB to manage our personal finances for maybe three to four years. So if you sell personal finance software, let’s talk, but this is a struggling moment right?

Research Software 40

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Here is an excerpt from a Product Manager job description (found on SmartRecruiters) at Square for their Cash App division: Develop innovative, industry-leading features and products that uniquely serve Cash App’s customers – differentiating via design and creativity. but of course, a higher cost comes with the gained knowledge.

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User Testing Product Research Product Management Product Manager 132

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. Let’s say we found that three projects went off course. The table has in it all the components of the solution and three columns: “essentials”, “differentiators”, and “not now.” What was bad about that?”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

In today’s episode of Intercom on Product, Paul Adams , our SVP of Product, and I reflect on our own shortcomings as we scale – and the makings of a much-needed course correction. And that’s totally fine, of course. And then, after all that, you get to decide where you want to differentiate.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Here is an excerpt from a Product Manager job description (found on SmartRecruiters) at Square for their Cash App division: Develop innovative, industry-leading features and products that uniquely serve Cash App’s customers – differentiating via design and creativity. but of course, a higher cost comes with the gained knowledge.

User Testing 98

User Testing Product Research Product Management Product Manager 98

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

 There will be a few items that we wait for the customer to do (single sign-on setup; employee notification) but we strive to reduce/eliminate everything else (connection to their finance system, sample employee invitation, logo upload, report aggregation).  Could Product development always takes longer than we planned.  How

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Of course, most of the Mac user base was not on new PowerMacs, they were on 'regular' Macs -- hardware upgrade cycles were much slower then. This solution clearly differentiated for the sales team, and also ensured quality search results, whether paid or organic. Most of the team were using those new computers because the Word 6.0

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

I was interested in starting a company from scratch, and I had actually managed the corporate card at SoFi, as the VP of finance. The differentiated insight was that everybody in a startup is searching “How do I set up payroll for a startup?” It inspires you to be ambitious and take your own course. for the first time.

Strategy 36

Strategy Data Visualization Analytic Tools Startups 36

Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

So, and actually find a differentiated way to solve them for customers and made sure that that represented a customer group that we could then go and sell at scale. When we rolled out to a group of about 50 people we included people from finance, people for marketing, people from engineering few people from pre sales. That's great.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

So, and actually find a differentiated way to solve them for customers and made sure that that represented a customer group that we could then go and sell at scale. When we rolled out to a group of about 50 people we included people from finance, people for marketing, people from engineering few people from pre sales. That's great.

Feedback Software 70

Feedback Software User Testing Framework Customer Experience 70

The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

The public perceptions of blockchain are that it’s useful only for the industry of finance. Reduces costs Reducing costs is, of course, a priority for most businesses. Many legacy industries find it difficult to differentiate themselves, based on services and pricing. Early bitcoin failure stories promoted even more skepticism.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Of course not. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. The solutions manager role in its purest form mirrors one or more customer business functions like HR, finance or IT, and has no intended alignment to any products.

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