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Also at larger companies, getting these support teams (Finance/Operations) to release the subscription SKUs is a big challenge for a Product Manager, if the organization has been only offering perpetual SKUs till now. A few months ago, one of our proposals got rejected because of our pricing. MORE
One sector in which we are already seeing this shift is personal finance. There is still so much opportunity for brilliant software in personal finance. MORE
On a longer term basis (monthly, quarterly, and annually) you’ll be using a more comprehensive view of CAC with your marketing, sales, and finance teams. It’s essentially a cap we pre-negotiate with our finance team. Growth is good, but growth at any cost is very, very bad. MORE
You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. MORE
You’ll work with finance and executive leadership to define a standard pricing model including standard discounts. Most pricing challenges are not really about pricing but about discounting. MORE
Oh, and don’t forget finance. Finance should not own pricing. From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic. MORE
People from finance, marketing, operations, sales, engineers. Interviewed by Oksana Reznichenko. Dinneen Grably graduated from Bridgewater State University with B.S. MORE
Finance should NOT set prices. Finance cares a lot about pricing because they focus on profitability. But finance should NOT set prices. Here’s the problem: Finance people do not know the value of their products. Finance should absolutely be one of those participants. MORE
Interim CFOs are finance experts who come in, usually on a full-time basis, typically for one to three months, to help steer a company through a financial crisis, an operations change, preparation for a sale, or the gap between one CFO’s departure and the hiring of a new one. MORE
I studied computer science in the engineering school and ultimately settled on finance at Wharton. While I may have been better served studying marketing or management, I did learn some important finance principles that I still use day-to-day in my product management role. MORE
Oh, and don’t forget finance. Finance should not own pricing. From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic. Question: In your opinion, who should and who usually drives pricing within (tech) growth companies? MORE
To fully embrace the product (whatever it is), to understand the finance, the operational/deployment efficacies, and the sales channel. MORE
Finance – the finance team is often responsible to track development costs before launch, and the profitability of the sales ramp. Our last post was an overview of what is a structured series of customer visits, and a high level overview. This next post in the series will dive deeper, and discuss the importance of structured customer visits being cross functional. MORE
What role does the finance department play? When you think of your role in the finance department, do you feel empowered to drive change across the organization? Yet, so many finance departments are bogged down by the traditional perception of their role in compliance and reporting. MORE
As companies add 'gatekeeper' functions like Legal, Finance, IT and Compliance, they tend to slow way down. But they don't have to. Here's how to lay the right foundation. Continue reading at First Round Review » MORE
We work with sales and marketing, development and support, professional services and finance. One of the great things about product management is touching every part of the company. MORE
Finance), you can also contribute to high-tech Product Management, although the focus will be much different. Also works with the stakeholders like finance or operations to define and execute the pricing strategy. We get this question a lot. MORE
Double entry system… Finance is not much funner… In fact, it can downright make your head spin… Liquidity. Let’s face it: Accounting is boring as isht. Assets. Liabilities. Cost basis. Accrual. Cost principle. Risk tolerance. Asset allocation. Dollar cost averaging. Capital asset pricing… Eh? As a product manager, why in the world would you […]. The post You either ROI or die appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager. MORE
That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Recognise the Importance of Product Management. MORE
San Francisco — July 12, 2018 — productboard, the leading product excellence system today announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from previous Seed investors – Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Reflex Capital, and Rockaway Capital. MORE
Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers] by Rana Foroohar based on her book “Makers & Takers: The Rise of Finance and Fall of American Business” talks about the state of business education in the US. This article [Want to Kill Your Economy? For my friends in India, I am curious to know if … Continue reading Why Has Business Education Failed Business → Business Schools Career/Leadership Product Management MORE
Any financial analyst must have strong corporate finance aptitude, accounting and reporting experience, and demonstrated statistical expertise. Industry-specific experience is highly important and should be prioritized over finance-only experience. MORE
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Others could include Operations, Support, Legal, and Finance. “What Do You Do Again?” ” As a Product Manager you’ve probably heard this one more times than you can count. One of the common challenges with Product Management is that co-workers and other departments in your organization don’t know what a Product Manager does. They have either never worked with Product Management before, or have a misperception of what Product Managers do from another company. MORE
Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or MORE
He launched the first Scrum team in 1993 and has shephereded its growth into almost every industry: finance, healthcare, higher education and telecom. Contributed by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland. Deliver Value Sooner. Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development. MORE
Product management is the glue between engineering, marketing, business development, sales, customer support, customer success, finance, and other functions in the organization. Why product management role is so misunderstood. The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many product managers from different companies, seen a lot of product management recruitment ads, and followed many product management discussions and lectures. MORE
Why and how I transferred my career from finance to product management was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. After college, I worked in financial services industry. Colleagues around me love what they are doing, and many people are trying to get into it. MORE
Or is it finance and customer and something else? I've seen a bunch of variations on the Venn diagram for product management. Is it the intersection of tech and UX and requirements? MORE
Ideally, you have exposure to business operations in HR, IT, finance, operations, etc., There are many skills that are important for success in a product management career, but there’s one that stands head and shoulders above all the rest. Apply a little deductive reasoning to get there. MORE
Mint.com knew they would be building a personal finance tool that would serve the young professional crowd whose needs were not being met by traditional finance software and services. MORE
Understand where you and your company are in terms of finance-related product management ratios. The future is hard to tease out, but here’s what will happen in product management’s future. (CC CC 2.0 by PunkToad). MORE
Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. MORE
Paulette writes about finances, psychology, technology, travel, and better living for the likes of The New York Times, Elle, and Slate. Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Paulette Perhach. I learned how to respect authority from my father. At the top of a huge water slide at a theme park, he put me, my […]. The post The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower appeared first on Nir and Far. MORE
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I also have to work on the finance, which is tough, but you have to make it happen. For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP Digital Solutions Product Management at Pitney Bowes. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. Don’t be afraid to take a risk to go in to Product Management. MORE
We’ve heard time and again that clients feel their outsourced accountants and bookkeepers aren’t proactive and that they’re at the bottom of their finance team’s to-do list. Talk to one of our finance experts to see how we can help your business. MORE
If you know right now that you do not or will have some of these elements, talk to your finance team, understand why, and come up with a plan in the coming few weeks to get these items together. Philip holds an MBA and undergraduate degrees in Accounting and Finance. MORE
On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “In a finance and numbers driven organization, how do you build a case on projects that have more qualitative benefits than specific quantitative benefits?”. MORE
new-year smb entrepreneurship finance business-strategyOnce February hits, is the new year really the new year any more? Tackle your business audits in January! We all know about personal New Year’s resolutions. Go to the gym three times a week. Quit or cut back on smoking or drinking. MORE
Currently, David helps organizations innovate faster with less risk through Innovation Options, a valuation framework he created that gives entrepreneurs a product-friendly yet finance-approved answer to the eternal question: “What’s the ROI?” Finance’s Perspective. MORE
We’re talking about people or groups whose buy-in and collaboration are essential to make certain things happen: executives, sales, finance, legal, marketing, etc. As Marty Cagan puts it , managing stakeholders is probably the least favorite part of our job as Product Managers. It is, however, something we need to constantly keep on our radar, specially those of us working for larger organizations. MORE
Who are your Stakeholders As a product manager you have many stakeholders: sales, support, marketing, business development, engineering, finance, compliance, legal, your product team and your VP product and sometimes in small companies even the CEO. Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product manager told me a story. MORE
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FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Finance should NOT set prices. Finance cares a lot about pricing because they focus on profitability. But finance should NOT set prices. Here’s the problem: Finance people do not know the value of their products. Finance should absolutely be one of those participants.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 5, 2018
What role does the finance department play? When you think of your role in the finance department, do you feel empowered to drive change across the organization? Yet, so many finance departments are bogged down by the traditional perception of their role in compliance and reporting.
Mironov Consulting
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. Most first-time CEOs come from some functional role: sales, finance, marketing, engineering, occasionally product management. (Or
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 9, 2017
I studied computer science in the engineering school and ultimately settled on finance at Wharton. While I may have been better served studying marketing or management, I did learn some important finance principles that I still use day-to-day in my product management role.
Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker
He’ll also cover the various other ways that King uses analytics across their entire company, from finance to performance marketing.
The Product Coalition
MAY 18, 2016
Why and how I transferred my career from finance to product management was originally published in ProductCoalition.com on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. After college, I worked in financial services industry. Colleagues around me love what they are doing, and many people are trying to get into it.
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 31, 2013
One sector in which we are already seeing this shift is personal finance. There is still so much opportunity for brilliant software in personal finance.
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The Product Coalition
APRIL 23, 2018
Interim CFOs are finance experts who come in, usually on a full-time basis, typically for one to three months, to help steer a company through a financial crisis, an operations change, preparation for a sale, or the gap between one CFO’s departure and the hiring of a new one.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 13, 2018
finance investing growth product-management fintechHow a financial services startup acquired 4MM+ users in 3 years. You’re responsible adults. If you need to use the bathroom, just leave quietly.” Yes, I had a small bladder. Yes, I abused this privilege, but no, not in any traditional sense.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
If you know right now that you do not or will have some of these elements, talk to your finance team, understand why, and come up with a plan in the coming few weeks to get these items together. Philip holds an MBA and undergraduate degrees in Accounting and Finance.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 27, 2017
We’ve heard time and again that clients feel their outsourced accountants and bookkeepers aren’t proactive and that they’re at the bottom of their finance team’s to-do list. Talk to one of our finance experts to see how we can help your business.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 1, 2018
business budget entrepreneurship finance business-developmentWho needs a weekly cash flow model? You own a fast-scaling company, and you’re growing your customer base steadily, but you’re still nervous. You almost didn’t make payroll last week.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
new-year smb entrepreneurship finance business-strategyOnce February hits, is the new year really the new year any more? Tackle your business audits in January! We all know about personal New Year’s resolutions. Go to the gym three times a week. Quit or cut back on smoking or drinking.
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First Round Review
MARCH 6, 2018
As companies add 'gatekeeper' functions like Legal, Finance, IT and Compliance, they tend to slow way down. But they don't have to. Here's how to lay the right foundation. Continue reading at First Round Review »
Nir Eyal
APRIL 10, 2017
Paulette writes about finances, psychology, technology, travel, and better living for the likes of The New York Times, Elle, and Slate. Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Paulette Perhach. I learned how to respect authority from my father. At the top of a huge water slide at a theme park, he put me, my […]. The post The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower appeared first on Nir and Far.
Street Smart Product Manager
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Double entry system… Finance is not much funner… In fact, it can downright make your head spin… Liquidity. Let’s face it: Accounting is boring as isht. Assets. Liabilities. Cost basis. Accrual. Cost principle. Risk tolerance. Asset allocation. Dollar cost averaging. Capital asset pricing… Eh? As a product manager, why in the world would you […]. The post You either ROI or die appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
Rahul Abhyankar
MARCH 1, 2018
Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers] by Rana Foroohar based on her book “Makers & Takers: The Rise of Finance and Fall of American Business” talks about the state of business education in the US. This article [Want to Kill Your Economy? For my friends in India, I am curious to know if … Continue reading Why Has Business Education Failed Business → Business Schools Career/Leadership Product Management
Proficientz – Product Management University
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Ideally, you have exposure to business operations in HR, IT, finance, operations, etc., There are many skills that are important for success in a product management career, but there’s one that stands head and shoulders above all the rest. Apply a little deductive reasoning to get there.
Dear Strategy
AUGUST 7, 2018
On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “In a finance and numbers driven organization, how do you build a case on projects that have more qualitative benefits than specific quantitative benefits?”.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Oh, and don’t forget finance. Finance should not own pricing. From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Oh, and don’t forget finance. Finance should not own pricing. From a reader: “Mark, I love your daily LinkedIn posts. Thanks for sharing. I find pricing to be a fascinating topic. Question: In your opinion, who should and who usually drives pricing within (tech) growth companies?
ProductBoard
JULY 12, 2018
San Francisco — July 12, 2018 — productboard, the leading product excellence system today announced it has raised $8 million in Series A financing led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from previous Seed investors – Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Reflex Capital, and Rockaway Capital.
Under10 Playbook
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
You’ll work with finance and executive leadership to define a standard pricing model including standard discounts. Most pricing challenges are not really about pricing but about discounting.
280 Group
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Others could include Operations, Support, Legal, and Finance. “What Do You Do Again?” ” As a Product Manager you’ve probably heard this one more times than you can count. One of the common challenges with Product Management is that co-workers and other departments in your organization don’t know what a Product Manager does. They have either never worked with Product Management before, or have a misperception of what Product Managers do from another company.
The Secret PM Handbook
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Understand where you and your company are in terms of finance-related product management ratios. The future is hard to tease out, but here’s what will happen in product management’s future. (CC CC 2.0 by PunkToad).
Mind the Product
MARCH 10, 2017
Currently, David helps organizations innovate faster with less risk through Innovation Options, a valuation framework he created that gives entrepreneurs a product-friendly yet finance-approved answer to the eternal question: “What’s the ROI?” Finance’s Perspective.
Roman Pichler
JUNE 4, 2018
That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Recognise the Importance of Product Management.
Inside Intercom
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
On a longer term basis (monthly, quarterly, and annually) you’ll be using a more comprehensive view of CAC with your marketing, sales, and finance teams. It’s essentially a cap we pre-negotiate with our finance team. Growth is good, but growth at any cost is very, very bad.
Under10 Playbook
APRIL 4, 2018
We work with sales and marketing, development and support, professional services and finance. One of the great things about product management is touching every part of the company.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Or is it finance and customer and something else? I've seen a bunch of variations on the Venn diagram for product management. Is it the intersection of tech and UX and requirements?
The Product Bistro
JUNE 14, 2016
Finance – the finance team is often responsible to track development costs before launch, and the profitability of the sales ramp. Our last post was an overview of what is a structured series of customer visits, and a high level overview. This next post in the series will dive deeper, and discuss the importance of structured customer visits being cross functional.
Sachin Rekhi
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
Mint.com knew they would be building a personal finance tool that would serve the young professional crowd whose needs were not being met by traditional finance software and services.
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work.
The Product Bistro
AUGUST 4, 2016
To fully embrace the product (whatever it is), to understand the finance, the operational/deployment efficacies, and the sales channel.
bpma ProductHub
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
People from finance, marketing, operations, sales, engineers. Interviewed by Oksana Reznichenko. Dinneen Grably graduated from Bridgewater State University with B.S.
B2B Product Management
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Finance), you can also contribute to high-tech Product Management, although the focus will be much different. Also works with the stakeholders like finance or operations to define and execute the pricing strategy. We get this question a lot.
bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
He launched the first Scrum team in 1993 and has shephereded its growth into almost every industry: finance, healthcare, higher education and telecom. Contributed by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland. Deliver Value Sooner. Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development.
280 Group
APRIL 23, 2018
I also have to work on the finance, which is tough, but you have to make it happen. For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP Digital Solutions Product Management at Pitney Bowes. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. Don’t be afraid to take a risk to go in to Product Management.
Ask Benny
MAY 1, 2018
Product management is the glue between engineering, marketing, business development, sales, customer support, customer success, finance, and other functions in the organization. Why product management role is so misunderstood. The Technical Aspect Throughout my career as product manager I have talked with many product managers from different companies, seen a lot of product management recruitment ads, and followed many product management discussions and lectures.
Ask Benny
JUNE 27, 2018
Who are your Stakeholders As a product manager you have many stakeholders: sales, support, marketing, business development, engineering, finance, compliance, legal, your product team and your VP product and sometimes in small companies even the CEO. Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product manager told me a story.
B2B Product Management
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
Also at larger companies, getting these support teams (Finance/Operations) to release the subscription SKUs is a big challenge for a Product Manager, if the organization has been only offering perpetual SKUs till now. A few months ago, one of our proposals got rejected because of our pricing.
Folding Burritos
JUNE 25, 2015
We’re talking about people or groups whose buy-in and collaboration are essential to make certain things happen: executives, sales, finance, legal, marketing, etc. As Marty Cagan puts it , managing stakeholders is probably the least favorite part of our job as Product Managers. It is, however, something we need to constantly keep on our radar, specially those of us working for larger organizations.
BrainMates
JULY 3, 2018
You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”.
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