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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators. Background, Criteria, and Decisions The following section describes a health-tech company “ZB Enterprise”, the considerations and culminating decisions.

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The Number One Thing Product Managers Want This Year

ProductPlan

One product manager at a mid-size telecommunications firm warns about a “fixation on revenue or other specific KPIs without focusing on other KPIs that could reveal trends with dire consequences.”. Many product managers are still “lone wolves” reporting to the CTO or VP of marketing rather than belonging to a dedicated product team.