The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2020

But most of our high value work is concentrated in a few areas: thinking about product vision and strategy, piecing together various forms of input to figure out priorities, looking at product from different angles, preparing for major meetings to make sure they are productive. Check it out… About The Product Mentor. Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And the challenge is a lot harder in an enterprise context, where the buyer and the user aren’t necessarily one and the same person. Many businesses struggle to strike a balance between freemium’s light-touch customer engagement with the more involved enterprise sales process. Meeting the needs of an enterprise buyer.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

As the wellness market grows more competitive, WellNests product managers are under increasing pressure to deliver features requested by sales, executives, and enterprise clientsoften with little time to step back and assess strategic impact. But its product management journey has been far from smooth.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

No one knows your vision and product as deeply as you do. Salespeople can’t replicate the passion, vision, and insights you can offer. Enterprise sales is a long game: In highly regulated industries or with large enterprise deals, expect timelines to stretch. Use that knowledge to connect with potential customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? While the previous section mentioned the importance of digital transformation, let’s dive deeper into the specific benefits enterprises can expect and showcase the urgency of embracing this change.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

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. This is where the problems usually start.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. Krishna believes in “Mobile and Social eating the world” and helps enterprise customers to make use of technology to increase their productivity.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Started a weekly internal newsletter about vision of the product. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. Conclusions.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

On one of the mentor live streams, the importance of a strong strategy and vision was discussed. A product vision and strategy is the way you communicate with the market, showing what’s important to you as a company and what you can expect to see from them. When I started in my role I felt that there wasn’t much of either.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to Okta, Hassen was at Microsoft where he worked on various enterprise products. In this talk, Hassen tells the story of two enterprise products, of how critical integrations were to their respective failure and success (but not just in terms of features!), 4 key Principles for Enterprise Product Success. Logging/Auditing.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. These enterprise product manager roles can be (counterintuitively, even more so than the startup roles) about taking a massive step back and taking control of the product vision. The post From Startup to Enterprise Product Manager: Is Bigger Always Better?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 1, 2025

In this conversation, Michael shares his vision for the future, lessons learned, and advice for preparing for the fast-approaching AI future. Consumer-like moats in AI: Success in AI depends on continuous product innovation and user satisfaction, rather than traditional enterprise moats like lock-in.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Management often believes that poor strategy can be made up by iterating/or pivoting execution, where operational expenditures are relatively low as compared to capital-intensive enterprises. Fortunately, I was paired with a mentor, Vikas Batra, who has several years of product management experience in enterprise telecommunications hardware.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

As my expertise grew, so did my exposure to the breadth of responsibilities expected of product management, such as marketing, strategy, and product vision, which culminated in my next role as an enterprise Product Owner at American Express. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2023

How to Choose the Optimal North Star for a Roof Shingles Assessment Vision API Company How the Right North Star Metric Can Illuminate Your Business Path Introduction In recent years, many new API SaaS companies are emerging that provide AI-powered capabilities for processing text, audio, images and video.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. A production release was a distant vision. More About The Product Mentor The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals….

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To capture the portfolio and product strategy, I prefer to work with the Portfolio Vision Board and Product Vision Board. To capture the business strategy, I find Roger Martin’s approach useful, which I summarise in the article Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. What is your product vision? You can stand out from other product managers by applying these skills to yourself. MVP of you. Do you have a Product Roadmap?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Themes typically describes abstract ideas or concepts critical to your product vision. Epics are large features that together makes up a theme. Better Decisions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

95% of enterprise data problems involve access, cleaning and joining data, not analysis; companies that solve this integration challenge create tremendous value. Companies like Palantir that spent decades building enterprise data foundations now have the perfect position for the AI era, where proprietary data access is the critical advantage.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

This process of allowing these different channels to paint the clearest perspective of that user is invaluable in making sure that product is being built with the user’s goal in the products vision. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He recently sold his third start-up, Vizibility, an enterprise-class digital business card solution. View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. Goals: Goals should be S.M.A.R.T.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Building successful B2B growth teams requires navigating several phases: The “gold rush” phase of proving initial value Systematizing and scaling successful approaches Integration with other organizational functions Finding the right balance between PLG and traditional sales Creating feedback loops between PLG and sales motions Where to (..)

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. More About The Product Mentor.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The HiveMQ MQTT Platform is designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress and is the proven enterprise standard. While they’ve tried leveraging CS and sales teams to put them in touch with the right individual within an enterprise customer account, that person is often not their main contact.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy. Unsurprisingly, it pretty much bombed, which resulted in the company losing significant market share and people leaving the enterprise. Step 2: Describe the outcome or benefit the product should create in the next few months.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? Who are the right stakeholders and partners to work with as you are setting your vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2019

Ask your customer to present his vision and work together on having a roadmap in place. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Management Mentors and Mentees around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…. Play with the product! About Alin Baicoci.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Transparency about your motivations helps others understand your vision and aligns them with your goals, making them more likely to support your initiatives. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Be clear on your “why”: When pitching ideas or initiatives, ensure you articulate the reasoning behind them.

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