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Strategic Portfolio Management 3 of 10 – How To Use a Portfolio Vision to Lead Products

Product Management University

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Think of your portfolio vision as the ultimate “strategic goal/outcome” your target customers want from your portfolio of products.

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The Power of Product Positioning and the “7 Ps” Marketing Mix

280 Group

PlayStation Classic was designed with far too little consideration into product positioning — the most important point of product marketing — and the blunder in sales was a direct result of this glaring oversight. What is Product Positioning? Product positioning refers to what the product means in the mind of the customer.

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How to Create a Product Vision That Energizes Stakeholders

Product Management University

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Reinventing our wheel: The vision behind Intercom’s new Messenger

Intercom, Inc.

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous. Here’s how we did it.

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Product Positioning: Overcoming Seven Obstacles to a Great Value Story

Product Management University

Here’s an example of product positioning at its finest. Product knowledge is a big fat handicap when it comes to positioning value because it forces you to overthink everything. As product managers and product marketers, all you have to do is bring their vision of success to life with your positioning and you’ve got a winner.

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The positive effects of the pandemic on UXR

UX Studio: Product Management

By making user needs and pain points tangible, research results are becoming central to defining company strategy and longer-term vision. . Such a positive outlook didn’t happen overnight. One of the participants spoke of her recent experience with presenting at the finals of a prestigious Hungarian UX course.

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Product Manager Salary Data for 2022

280 Group

The role of Product Manager is unique in that it touches all aspects of a business – from Engineering to Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Procurement – while also representing the voice of the customer, driving the product roadmap, and rallying teams around a common product vision. . Consider training.