Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2017 is now available. In this issue we cover everything from selling value in spite of your product’s deficiencies to what makes a rock star product manager to the criticality of the functional designer role. Plus tips for hiring the right product manager and getting unbiased customer feedback. View the April 2017 Issue. MORE
So a little bit of embedded knowledge can create a lot of differentiation. The other piece of good news is that defaults and knowledge provide differentiation in two ways. Product Management competitive differentiation innovation knowledgeThis guy might have too much knowledge. MORE
Redirect the focus of your value proposition to the capabilities that address larger scale issues such as growth or competitive differentiation. If your sales team is forced to go on the defensive too often because of missing features, contact Proficientz about our Product Demo Training Workshop and learn how to sell the strategic value of your tactical products in a way that differentiates you from the competition and accelerates the sales process. MORE
While the workshop helped me validate the need the book should address, I was not able to tackle another key risk with it: writing the book in the right way so that the need was properly met and the product sufficiently differentiated. Minimum Viable Product #1. MORE
financials, feasibility, product differentiation, etc.)?”. On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale, President of the product management and product strategy training company Sequent Learning Networks , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “What are the most important points to stress when presenting new ideas to senior management (i.e. Read the full blog post. Original Music by Bob Caporale. MORE
If you’re in a marketing or sales role, that same dialogue demonstrates high credibility, which might be the most important aspect of differentiating your organization and its solutions from the competition. If you’re in a product management, product marketing or sales enablement role, consider replacing the phrase market problems with customer goals. MORE
You’ll walk away with everything you need to effectively position and differentiate whatever you’re selling. Sometime is pays to just be curious. You’re about to go into a sales discovery meeting with a new prospect. Is your mindset more like salesperson with a quota, or someone that’s looking to create new relationships in your professional network? Results suggests that you’re better off playing the role of someone that’s looking to build his or her network. MORE
Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo. A Sales Demo Challenge. MORE
She opens your mind to think above and beyond the solutions; and that’s where your product can become a market differentiator and have true, valuable impact. MORE
Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price. I just read for the first time a Harvard Business Review article, “ Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great ,” by Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed (April 2013). MORE
Understands customers, the problems the product solves, why the product is winning or losing, competitive differentiation, etc. By Jennifer Gridley – As we approach Valentine’s Day, some may be enjoying The Spice Girls’ 1996 hit for its romantic message. MORE
2. Use the Value Theme to Highlight Your Product Differentiation. It’s easier to differentiate when you can build a value theme around unique capabilities of your product/company and use them as a common thread throughout the sales demo. Product demo themes can improve your sales win rate. The key? They have to be crafted in the customer’s vocabulary and mirror their business goals. MORE
Market Dynamics Differentiation Defensibility Rapid Iteration TEAM TEAM was the most important thing he focused on. customer customer experience differentiation investors market teamOccasionally, we have guest speakers at Babson College, and sometimes we get a really good guest speaker! Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Scott Friend from Bain Capital Ventures. MORE
It will differentiate you from a lot of product managers who cannot give you a concise description of what they do. One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. MORE
For those of you who have been following my writing for quite some time now, this shouldn’t come as a surprise: I don’t believe much longer in the differentiation of domain product managers. Instead, I believe in the power of deploying (product) skills in whichever domain is necessary and staying close to some core values … Continue reading "The biggest difference between product and consulting work". MORE
That same messaging also helps the sales force talk the talk more credibly to ensure continuity between the marketing messages and the sales process, and that credibility may the one thing that ultimately differentiates you from the competition. The solution providers that truly have differentiating value built into their products are extremely good at this part. MORE
This helps you understand if your product is properly differentiated. Balancing Specific and Generic Skills. To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. MORE
To use it, you have to be clear on your differentiators – what your product does better than your competitors. Think of two capabilities of your product, each of which is differentiating against some of your competitors. Because you chose differentiating capabilities, your competitors will all fall in one of the other quadrants. Our two most differentiating capabilities were project portfolio management and resource management. MORE
Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators). For example, articulating a meaningful Dramatic Difference or “differentiator” portion of the value proposition is usually difficult. Brain Wiring (by Wellcome Images, CC licensed). MORE
Is it time for a more interesting and unique flavor of selling – or is it time for a more tantalizing flavor of product management to differentiate the way you sell? Just not good enough to differentiate, especially if everyone else is doing the same thing. Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Everyone knows what it is – it’s simple and meets the most basic criteria for a dessert. MORE
Developing both strategic skills and multi-year product strategy (linked to your company’s overarching business goals) provides a statistically significant path to higher levels of performance and market differentiation. Contributed by Greg Geracie. MORE
This means that the first iPhone was clearly differentiated. If the value curve of your product is too close to the curve of the competition, then you haven’t differentiated your product sufficiently. The Strategy Canvas. MORE
For example, cost leadership (low prices), differentiation (uniquely desirable products and services), or focus (niche markets)—three options originally suggested by Michael Porter. Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. MORE
And oh, yeah: Building a solution – addressing the customer’s problem effectively with technology, with enough differentiation that it’s possible to sell successfully. Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback. MORE
It will differentiate you from a lot of product managers who cannot give you a concise description of what they do. One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. MORE
So a little bit of embedded knowledge can create a lot of differentiation. The other piece of good news is that defaults and knowledge provide differentiation in two ways. Product Management competitive differentiation innovation knowledgeThis guy might have too much knowledge. MORE
The post How to Differentiate Your IoT Product: Provide Insights Not Data appeared first on TechProductManagement. IoT products are known for producing large amounts of data. MORE
Follow three simple guidelines to differentiate with credibility and boost your win rates. Don’t expect your buyers to walk away with that one differentiating value theme if you don’t hit them right between the eyes with a very simple message. Product presentations and demos can be the determining factor in winning or losing a sale. In many cases, it comes down to the credibility of the presenter more than the capabilities of the product. MORE
Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2017 is now available. In this issue we cover everything from selling value in spite of your product’s deficiencies to what makes a rock star product manager to the criticality of the functional designer role. Plus tips for hiring the right product manager and getting unbiased customer feedback. View the April 2017 Issue. MORE
” Hmmm, still not clear differentiation in my opinion. Clear, differentiated positioning and messaging may be the key. Positioning describes what your product does—while also describing how it is different than anything else on the market. MORE
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Along the way they’ve begun to better identify what features their customers wouldn’t know to ask for, but deliver extremely high business value and differentiate them from their competition. BPMA Event – Flipping the Script as a PM: Turning Customers into Evangelists. Thursday, February 22 | 6:30 – 9:30pm. Is your roadmap stuck chasing feature parity? MORE
The post How to Differentiate Your IoT Product: Provide Insights Not Data appeared first on Daniel Elizalde. IoT products are known for producing large amounts of data. Some people even argue that the reason to deploy IoT products is to produce and collect all this data, that the data in itself is what provides the value. I don’t think so. In this post, I describe the importance of having a data strategy and […]. MORE
Group features into categories based on the customer business goals they support, e.g., employee engagement, customer experience, regulatory compliance, differentiation etc. Senior executives often request a product feature ROI prior to approving plans for product development. It’s a mind numbing exercise for product managers and developers and in most cases a fool’s errand. MORE
Regardless of what they want us to believe, there isn’t a huge amount of differentiation between them. In the absence of product differentiation, obfuscating pricing can reduce price competition. An important rule I teach in the Price course is that confused buyers don’t buy. MORE
Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo. A Sales Demo Challenge. MORE
Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo. A Sales Demo Challenge. MORE
Differentiation and innovation are your two best options! Differentiation. Differentiation boils down to unique positioning in your sales and marketing efforts with your products and company reputation serving up the proof points. Innovation and differentiation often go hand-in-hand. The upside to the customer is huge and you now have something tangible to differentiate your solutions from the competition. MORE
Making the shift from horizontal products to industry solutions boils down to differentiation…not just the marketing and messaging variety but adding product capabilities specific to key industry segments that deliver exponentially more value than generic one-size-fits-all products or services. For example, many cloud computing providers espouse IT cost savings and data security benefits while attempting to differentiate on technical superiority and service levels. MORE
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Differentiation and innovation are your two best options! Differentiation. Differentiation boils down to unique positioning in your sales and marketing efforts with your products and company reputation serving up the proof points. Innovation and differentiation often go hand-in-hand. The upside to the customer is huge and you now have something tangible to differentiate your solutions from the competition.
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The post How to Differentiate Your IoT Product: Provide Insights Not Data appeared first on Daniel Elizalde. IoT products are known for producing large amounts of data. Some people even argue that the reason to deploy IoT products is to produce and collect all this data, that the data in itself is what provides the value. I don’t think so. In this post, I describe the importance of having a data strategy and […].
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To use it, you have to be clear on your differentiators – what your product does better than your competitors. Think of two capabilities of your product, each of which is differentiating against some of your competitors. Because you chose differentiating capabilities, your competitors will all fall in one of the other quadrants. Our two most differentiating capabilities were project portfolio management and resource management.
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For those of you who have been following my writing for quite some time now, this shouldn’t come as a surprise: I don’t believe much longer in the differentiation of domain product managers. Instead, I believe in the power of deploying (product) skills in whichever domain is necessary and staying close to some core values … Continue reading "The biggest difference between product and consulting work".
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Along the way they’ve begun to better identify what features their customers wouldn’t know to ask for, but deliver extremely high business value and differentiate them from their competition. BPMA Event – Flipping the Script as a PM: Turning Customers into Evangelists. Thursday, February 22 | 6:30 – 9:30pm. Is your roadmap stuck chasing feature parity?
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Follow three simple guidelines to differentiate with credibility and boost your win rates. Don’t expect your buyers to walk away with that one differentiating value theme if you don’t hit them right between the eyes with a very simple message. Product presentations and demos can be the determining factor in winning or losing a sale. In many cases, it comes down to the credibility of the presenter more than the capabilities of the product.
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financials, feasibility, product differentiation, etc.)?”. On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale, President of the product management and product strategy training company Sequent Learning Networks , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “What are the most important points to stress when presenting new ideas to senior management (i.e. Read the full blog post. Original Music by Bob Caporale.
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Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo. A Sales Demo Challenge.
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Our product’s portfolio management capabilities were a significant differentiator. But they weren’t being used effectively to differentiate in the demo. A Sales Demo Challenge.
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Making the shift from horizontal products to industry solutions boils down to differentiation…not just the marketing and messaging variety but adding product capabilities specific to key industry segments that deliver exponentially more value than generic one-size-fits-all products or services. For example, many cloud computing providers espouse IT cost savings and data security benefits while attempting to differentiate on technical superiority and service levels.
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Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators). For example, articulating a meaningful Dramatic Difference or “differentiator” portion of the value proposition is usually difficult. Brain Wiring (by Wellcome Images, CC licensed).
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That same messaging also helps the sales force talk the talk more credibly to ensure continuity between the marketing messages and the sales process, and that credibility may the one thing that ultimately differentiates you from the competition. The solution providers that truly have differentiating value built into their products are extremely good at this part.
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Is it time for a more interesting and unique flavor of selling – or is it time for a more tantalizing flavor of product management to differentiate the way you sell? Just not good enough to differentiate, especially if everyone else is doing the same thing. Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Everyone knows what it is – it’s simple and meets the most basic criteria for a dessert.
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Developing both strategic skills and multi-year product strategy (linked to your company’s overarching business goals) provides a statistically significant path to higher levels of performance and market differentiation. Contributed by Greg Geracie.
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You’ll walk away with everything you need to effectively position and differentiate whatever you’re selling. Sometime is pays to just be curious. You’re about to go into a sales discovery meeting with a new prospect. Is your mindset more like salesperson with a quota, or someone that’s looking to create new relationships in your professional network? Results suggests that you’re better off playing the role of someone that’s looking to build his or her network.
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Regardless of what they want us to believe, there isn’t a huge amount of differentiation between them. In the absence of product differentiation, obfuscating pricing can reduce price competition. An important rule I teach in the Price course is that confused buyers don’t buy.
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2. Use the Value Theme to Highlight Your Product Differentiation. It’s easier to differentiate when you can build a value theme around unique capabilities of your product/company and use them as a common thread throughout the sales demo. Product demo themes can improve your sales win rate. The key? They have to be crafted in the customer’s vocabulary and mirror their business goals.
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And oh, yeah: Building a solution – addressing the customer’s problem effectively with technology, with enough differentiation that it’s possible to sell successfully. Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback.
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Group features into categories based on the customer business goals they support, e.g., employee engagement, customer experience, regulatory compliance, differentiation etc. Senior executives often request a product feature ROI prior to approving plans for product development. It’s a mind numbing exercise for product managers and developers and in most cases a fool’s errand.
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” Hmmm, still not clear differentiation in my opinion. Clear, differentiated positioning and messaging may be the key. Positioning describes what your product does—while also describing how it is different than anything else on the market.
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Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2017 is now available. In this issue we cover everything from selling value in spite of your product’s deficiencies to what makes a rock star product manager to the criticality of the functional designer role. Plus tips for hiring the right product manager and getting unbiased customer feedback. View the April 2017 Issue.
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APRIL 18, 2017
Differentiation and Innovation: Your Ticket to Surviving Product Commoditization. The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2017 is now available. In this issue we cover everything from selling value in spite of your product’s deficiencies to what makes a rock star product manager to the criticality of the functional designer role. Plus tips for hiring the right product manager and getting unbiased customer feedback. View the April 2017 Issue.
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Redirect the focus of your value proposition to the capabilities that address larger scale issues such as growth or competitive differentiation. If your sales team is forced to go on the defensive too often because of missing features, contact Proficientz about our Product Demo Training Workshop and learn how to sell the strategic value of your tactical products in a way that differentiates you from the competition and accelerates the sales process.
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MAY 10, 2017
This helps you understand if your product is properly differentiated. Balancing Specific and Generic Skills. To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones.
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While the workshop helped me validate the need the book should address, I was not able to tackle another key risk with it: writing the book in the right way so that the need was properly met and the product sufficiently differentiated. Minimum Viable Product #1.
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She opens your mind to think above and beyond the solutions; and that’s where your product can become a market differentiator and have true, valuable impact.
Pragmatic Marketing
MARCH 14, 2018
Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price. I just read for the first time a Harvard Business Review article, “ Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great ,” by Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed (April 2013).
PM Hardcore
MAY 5, 2017
It will differentiate you from a lot of product managers who cannot give you a concise description of what they do. One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”.
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AUGUST 9, 2017
If you’re in a marketing or sales role, that same dialogue demonstrates high credibility, which might be the most important aspect of differentiating your organization and its solutions from the competition. If you’re in a product management, product marketing or sales enablement role, consider replacing the phrase market problems with customer goals.
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