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My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership

ProductPlan

Though I had no idea what I was doing, before I knew it, I interviewed external customers, internal stakeholders, and various customer-facing teams to understand the problem better. I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. Long term, you can expect to manage a specific KPI (e.g.,

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The CFOs at a 160-year-old retailer and Gainsight talk about their approaches to modern KPIs

Gainsight

But the way that people in the finance community, the marketing community, the HR community should engage and collaborate around those KPIs has to fundamentally change.” Some emerging KPIs Schrage noted include employee experience, customer experience, and customer lifetime value. We are a customer success company.

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Here Are the Key Differences Between Strategy, OKRs, and KPIs You Need to Know

The Product Coalition

And understood, too, that your Strategic Capabilities — the teams you expect to combine Product, Tech, and UX expertise to create new experiences, and expand growth, won’t thrive in KPI-driven environments. The Most Important Question One of Roger Martin ’s greatest contributions to strategy thought leadership is a single question.

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Change the Game in 5 Minutes: Omada Health Embraces 3 Unshakeable Pillars of Customer Success

Gainsight

It was also challenging to figure out how to bring continuity between each of those channels so that people understand what we represent and then reflecting it in our key performance indicators (KPIs). Nick: Can you elaborate on the KPI concept for the participant side? . It’s an exciting and tough challenge.

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How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps

ProductPlan

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. Take a Minimum Viable Product -type approach to identify and select which KPIs make the cut.

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The Accidental Product Manager: From Cars To Games To Google

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

As an example, when I was interviewing with Amazon, I talked about my consulting experience and how coming from an industry where customer satisfaction is paramount to the survival of our business, I am already naturally bent towards thriving in an environment like Amazon, where customer obsession trumps everything else.