Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

What you don’t need to worry about is defining the product vision, creating the strategic roadmap, determining market need and financial viability, etc. and how they interact with one another in the interest of the finance department’s strategic priorities. Here’s the good news. Here’s the twist. The short answer is you don’t!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 8, 2023

Everything for us starts with strategy—both innovation strategy and corporate and total enterprise strategy. In the application, we shared our enterprise strategy and specifically the significant role innovation plays in that. We highlighted how we translate that strategy into the projects we pursue.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

This week, I invited Michael to come on the show and tell us about their growth strategy. I was interested in starting a company from scratch, and I had actually managed the corporate card at SoFi, as the VP of finance. What made you trust the founder’s vision and make that jump? Is that part of the strategy as well?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is the effect of Dopamine Banking, where finance meets emotions and entertainment, and every tap of your smartphone is engineered to delight and reward. Buckle up, because the future of finance just got exhilarating. It ultimately changes how we think about financial services. Explore case studyhere.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Embrace the future of finance today! These platforms are reshaping the way we think about cryptocurrency trading, offering a promising vision of a decentralized and more accessible financial future. This can be especially appealing in industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, where data security is paramount.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

The success of a product is reliant on strong, integrated teams that work together to bring the product’s vision to life. However, his career took a different turn when he started at Intuit’s corporate and strategy side. What I was looking at was a product vision and a roadmap and I was like I want that job.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

or horizontally (IT, Sales, finance, HR, etc.). With the market knowledge as the backdrop, product management creates a vision for how your organization is going to make its target customers successful in ways they haven’t even thought of yet while also driving revenue growth, market share and wallet share. Give it a whirl.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 23, 2023

He’s a Practitioner & Thought Leader in Portfolio & Innovation Management and cofounder of SmartOrg, a Silicon Valley based company that connects innovation and finance. They had developed a vision of an ATM photo machine. He earned a Ph.D. at Stanford University where he has also taught strategic portfolio management.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Plus, it’s your ticket to a portfolio strategy for the next 12-24 months that’s guaranteed to deliver high value to the market. Create a simple portfolio strategy that consists of customer initiatives you’ll tackle in priority order. Create a Portfolio Mission Statement. Structure Your Product Organization for Value.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Different Kinds of Product Culture…And Why Culture Must Align the Business Strategy Product culture? You see this when you have a strong vision-led founder, or an organization where the culture encourages risk-averse decision making…in other words, your typical hierarchical structure. Is that just company culture? really love?—?your

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This completely reset perceptions within the Mac community, but it also caused a reversal of strategy from Microsoft who realized that they needed to build a business unit around the Mac. She proposed a new strategy to the BBC “BBC out of home” which became its mobile strategy. Google Adwords.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. Someone who thrives in ambiguity and can translate complex problems into clear, actionable strategies. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This also implies that product managers have to have broad knowledge of many fields, just like the CEO of a company, including data, technology, marketing and finance. CEOs are therefore more accountable for overall company profitability and product managers are more accountable for metrics further down in Lead Edge’s hierarchy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2022

People quickly went digital and understood that finances don’t always require personal presence. Today, the main goals of fintech are to facilitate the interaction with finances and to improve the relationship between financial institutions and customers. Their purpose is simple: to let users store their finances and make payments.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

the Product Manager is a sheepdog…” As a sheepdog, a Product Manager is “right at the nexus of all other teams” where he or she “ leads in defining the product vision , establishing the operational plan to get there, and then executing on it ”. a market problem) and should be leveraged to shape your product vision and direction.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Let’s explore strategies for how we can tackle these challenges. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. ❌ Common Wrong Strategy: Appointing a single decision-maker to resolve disagreements. Effective Strategy: Implement perspective sharing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

?. While it might be obvious that there’s usually a team of people collaborating on the vision and creation of good design, this truth applies just as much to the end user – there’ll be more than one person on the receiving end. Jared points to “experience visions” as a fantastic tool to help guide the decision-making process.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 13, 2020

Changes in fundraising Entrepreneurs expect to see private financing decreased, at least slightly, as it happened during economic downturns in 2001 and 2009. It’s also essential to strengthen your business potential hiring the right product development company that can grab your vision and is ready to innovate too.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2019

He has a good cross-functional background for doing so, serving in senior roles in product development, marketing, finance, and sales. I realized that this was not a good approach so we created a cross-functional program for employees to innovate and execute their visions. Senior leadership only controls the strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. That’s the dream, that’s the vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

No matter how great a new tool may seem, it can’t replace strategy or processes, so make sure those are clearly defined first. As Des Traynor, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, says, your first few hires are so influential in the success of your company. If there’s an issue, is it a tool problem (i.e. Questions to ask.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Develop a portfolio strategy that mirrors the target customers’ business priorities with supporting product releases that collectively deliver the outcomes via new features and products. Customer-Facing Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Thus, attracting great junior talent and developing them is an effective strategy both from an output and budgetary perspective. Drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for your product area.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2021

With this information in hand, you can develop a more detailed marketing strategy and even find ways to improve your product based on your buyer persona research. Do we have a detailed branding strategy? Sophie enjoys covering a variety of topics, including tech, finance, business, marketing, wellness, and culture.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2025

Tech-fluent PMs bridge vision and feasibility by engaging deeply with engineers and navigating technical complexity. For example, if youre working on strategic foresight , maybe you start by reviewing your product strategy. Dont just show up and simply declare the strategy. Form a point of view. Is it future-fit?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

business models, your product/business, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) 4. Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience. understanding business models, finance, sales, marketing, scaling) Every part of the company works together to create and deliver value to its customers. Strategy ?—?“ Finance ?—?“

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 25, 2020

Whether you’ve been handed a new product vision to execute or you have an idea of your own, it’s also your job to socialize your product vision and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders. Let’s take a look at the process of socializing your product vision internally and why its imperative to your product’s success.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2018

You are not helping people if someone has to log in every day to check their business accounting system or their personal finances. But if Quickbooks Online measures active use (which it did) it will be incentivized to build features that get you to log in vs do actions to improve your business finances.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The vision is simple: log in to the app, authenticate yourself, and pose questions naturally. This enhances personalized interactions, fostering effective marketing strategies and improved customer engagement for businesses. The strategy to connect to various systems can be programmed into plugins. Sounds familiar, right?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The bread and butter product management tasks are prioritizing , evolving product strategy , and managing the product roadmap. Represent product to all the other functional stakeholders in marketing, sales, finance, and support. Vision and strategy. Product management owns vision and strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute.

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