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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

In this final post in my series on managing manufactured products I examine the specific touch points that exist between the operations, engineering, and finance functions when managing the lifecycle of manufactured products. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). You can read the earlier posts in this series here , here and here.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

That way, they’re always leading from a position of strength. Aspirational Market Positioning. If you have a customer-facing vision for the portfolio and supporting business goals for each product, the foundation of your market positioning is complete. Sales Training on Customers vs. Products.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Plus time with Marketing (launch, messaging, product marketing content), Finance (packaging, pricing, forecasts), Support, Customer Success/Implementation, and broad Sales training and enablement.  Plus  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

I even know some highly effective organisations with hundreds of thousands of users who just have product designers instead of product managers in most of their squads and are seeing positive results. which is positive. The more we focus inside in unconstructive ways, the lower the return on capital.

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It’s time to get your Ph.D. in Sales Comp

Product Beautiful

I think we all now have a clear understanding of your product, its pricing and competitive positioning, and how it can help the company. At this point, we needed to get educated (quickly) on how Sales at this company was motivated. Our next stop was Finance. I understand that the CEO has identified this as a strategic product.

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