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How to Make Product Management for Enterprise Systems Work

Mind the Product

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. But this raises three broad questions: Shouldn’t we spend more time choosing our specific KPIs (or OKRs) than deciding whether to adopt metrics in general ? Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise.

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Promoting a Metrics-Driven Product and Company Culture

The Product Guy

Centralize KPI Reporting. The OKR approach doesn’t work without product KPI’s, and product KPI’s don’t work without measurements. Recently some executives questioned why one product KPI, that I track in my report, was moving very slowly. When I started at my company we had some product telemetry in place. Better Products.

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Data-driven sales: 18 sales KPIs and metrics to grow your revenue faster

Intercom, Inc.

As you can see in the chart above, we segment inbound leads by business type – small business, mid-market and enterprise – to ensure we’re delivering the right number of leads to each of our teams. This KPI is also referred to as Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). This KPI is also referred to Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need

The Product Coalition

In practice companies struggle with settling for just one top KPI, and with good reason. North Star Metric, One Metric, top business KPI?—?are these are the familiar Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Revenue, Net Income, Paying Customers, Active users, etc. In healthy companies the NSM and the top KPI are highly correlated?—?they

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OKRs vs KPIs – Understanding Measurements for your SaaS Product

Userpilot

What are KPIs? KPI stands for key performance indicators , and they are a way for you to understand the performance against the key results that you have set. Let's tap into our examples again and look at how we might understand performance with a KPI example added: Real-world example: Objective: Reduce body fat %.

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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

The Product Coalition

In the end, we had great momentum on the deal size, but if we considered revenues as our KPI, we were at a standstill. For enterprises that only adopt 3 to 5 new tools every year, it is going to be very hard for you to get in this list of top tools to integrate. It wasn’t helping them much. Vitamins vs Advils What is a vitamin ?

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