Sat.Dec 05, 2015 - Fri.Dec 11, 2015

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Optimize For Passion/Skill/Opportunity Fit

Sachin Rekhi

I've noticed that those that ultimately find satisfaction from their careers end up optimized for passion/skill/opportunity fit. They've been lucky enough to find the intersection of work they are passionate about, work they are skilled at, and work that has ample market opportunity. For those early in their careers or who have not yet found such satisfaction, I wanted to share how optimizing for passion/skill/opportunity fit can help you to ultimately find your dream job.

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Challenging Traditional Sales Roles

TSIA

The long-running, oft-worshipped, and rarely questioned organizational business structure of Sales and Post-Sales is sick and overdue for some tough medicine. For years, there have been ample talks and thousands of articles written about the dysfunction of Sales and Marketing, but an even bigger argument can be made that the graver threat to a company is what isn’t working between the two major organizations, Sales and Post-Sales, that (sadly) often meet only at that line in the contract w

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5 Tips to Get Stakeholders to Like—Even Love—Your Product Roadmap

UserTesting

Today’s guest post comes from Jim Semick, founder of ProductPlan. Enjoy! Would you ever walk into a stakeholder meeting to present your roadmap without first gathering customer data to support your strategy and vision? As product and UX professionals, you’re … The post 5 Tips to Get Stakeholders to Like—Even Love—Your Product Roadmap appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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The Hunt for Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

The hunt for finding product/market fit in an early-stage startup is an elusive one, often fraught with chaos, and certainly never easy. I've led the hunt for product/market fit in 3 startups that I co-founded and also had the opportunity to do so for 3 new products launched at established tech giants LinkedIn and Microsoft. Most recently, in advising 5 early-stage startups, I have been helping other founders through their respective hunts.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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[SlideShare] Measuring the Health of XaaS Subscription Renewals

TSIA

When it comes to getting customers to renew their subscription with your XaaS offer , does your current renewal engagement model consist of managed handoffs between your internal teams, or is it total chaos? In the recent TSIA SRG Cloud Benchmark Study, we aimed to find out how top companies in the technology services industry are structuring their subscription renewal process, as well as get a detailed look at which metrics they’re using to track their success.

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The Education Services Adoption Playbook

TSIA

One of the inquiries that TSIA is getting more and more frequently from its Education Services (ES) membership is, “How can education services help drive adoption?” To answer this question, let’s start with a definition of adoption. Adoption, in its simplest form, is getting a customer to use the product more, whether it’s a technology product, education product, or both.

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Focus on Retaining Great Employees

TSIA

Employee attrition is a key field service metric with growing importance. This is due to a number of factors, such as talent wars starting to heat up as field service engineers near retirement age , significant commitment to training, and positive hiring trends due to both growth and replacements.

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3 Tips for Resolving Internal Design Disputes

UserTesting

Does this situation sound familiar? Your team is working on a new project, and several stakeholders can’t come to an agreement on a design decision. Maybe the visual designer makes a choice to adhere to the best practices she learned … The post 3 Tips for Resolving Internal Design Disputes appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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3 Tips for Resolving Internal Design Disputes

UserTesting

Does this situation sound familiar? Your team is working on a new project, and several stakeholders can’t come to an agreement on a design decision. Maybe the visual designer makes a choice to adhere to the best practices she learned … The post 3 Tips for Resolving Internal Design Disputes appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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5 Tips to Get Stakeholders to Like—Even Love—Your Product Roadmap

UserTesting

Today’s guest post comes from Jim Semick, founder of ProductPlan. Enjoy! Would you ever walk into a stakeholder meeting to present your roadmap without first gathering customer data to support your strategy and vision? As product and UX professionals, you’re … The post 5 Tips to Get Stakeholders to Like—Even Love—Your Product Roadmap appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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