The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Since they were not planning to win, they were always only half-hearted with their commitment, resulting in a mediocre product and low market share.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 19, 2022

For some users, it can be providing the best customer support, on-demand priority customer support, advanced product features, or personalized product features and experiences. With Add ons, customers can add multiple products in the checkout flow, so it would be easy to manage and personalize their bundles in one place.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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ProductBoard

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Launching a new product is difficult, sure. But upending the narrative behind an entire industry is, for many SaaS companies, an entirely different game. Such monumental shifts require transformations across every aspect of product development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

People who do this well are not only great at strategy and would make sharp executives, but also tend to ace Product Strategy interviews like the one in Google’s Product Management Interviews (for Facebook’s Product Sense interviews, read How to 10x Your Product Intuition ).

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Bain Public’s associate product managers, Abigail Ramirez Villarroel and Tudor Gafiuc , attended the INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland on September 20-21st, 2022. About INDUSTRY. About INDUSTRY's Fireside Chat. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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Innovatemap

JUNE 27, 2023

Nextech’s summer XPLORE program gives teachers the chance to learn from tech industry professionals. If we can show computer science teachers what they’re teaching truly matters and how it relates to the real world, then we can help them encourage students to explore careers in the tech industry.”

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay]. Product management requires product strategy. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. Below were what I brought to the products and how I was able to drive for quick results.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2023

Conclusion Measuring and analyzing product metrics is a critical task for product managers, and mastering these metrics is essential for driving product success.

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What are the emerging technologies that will help improve your Product?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Vikas Batra Product Management Leader, Alcatel-Lucent.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 11, 2022

He is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His research examines value creation and competition when industry boundaries are changing. It’s getting harder to stretch those frameworks that were built for a world well-defined by industry into the world we face today.

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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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Amplitude

MARCH 9, 2021

Building and executing a product strategy is difficult, to say the least. Forty-five percent of all products fail to launch on time, while 20% of that number fail to meet internal targets. The key to overcoming those statistics is the expectations that your team places upon your product strategy itself.

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Radical Product

MAY 5, 2020

But for those of us in the tech industry, this hits home. We see mounting evidence of a generation of disillusioned employees in the technology industry coming to terms with this dichotomy. Employees at Google and Amazon have staged walkouts to protest how their employers’ products and practices are failing society.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What are the emerging technologies that will help improve your Product?

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

Eric Walenza, CEO at IoTOne, conducts interviews to explore success factors and challenges in Industrial IoT markets with CEOs, investors, and experts. In this podcast episode, Eric invited me to discuss my views and approach to Industrial IoT product strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track. Of course not.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 6, 2023

This warning label is a heads-up for us to check out the reviews and product deets before signing up for a product! This means no more pesky products in our carts. The Information has reported that the e-commerce industry is grappling with the expensive issue of returns, which have surged during the pandemic.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

Erik Walenza, CEO at IoTOne, conducts interviews to explore success factors and challenges in Industrial IoT markets with CEOs, investors, and experts. In this podcast episode, Erik invited me to discuss my views and approach to Industrial IoT product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

Porter's 5 Forces Model A good place to start talking about any strategy is Porter’s ‘5 Forces’ model [1] [see Figure 1 below], and this is a framework that you should mention in an interview. Porter's 5 Forces Model is particularly suited to analyzing a whole industry at a time, or one company, or a product line.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 24, 2020

Jason Fried: How Covid Changes Work and Industries, and Designing for Platforms. Part 3 of 3 – here we share Jason’s thoughts on the evolution of work and industry post Covid, why designing for platforms is important and the differences between office/remote work and physical/online events. It is not. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Since 2007, OnDeck has delivered over $2 billion to businesses all across the United States in more than 700 industries and has been lending in Canada since 2014. Bain Public brought new processes, tools and increased support with their SOAP™ 12-module approach.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 28, 2020

Context matters: Using market data to guide product strategy. That mobile growth trend was also seen across other industries. The top products, across all industries, grow 18x the rate of the average product. Inside the walls of many companies lives an echo chamber, and Disney was no different.

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Dear Strategy

AUGUST 25, 2019

A typical scenario for this might involve a large industrial customer who had the ability to generate their own power and who wanted to sell some of that power back on to our grid. Most large companies have global product management functions and regional product management functions.

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ProductBoard

JUNE 22, 2020

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need. Even before COVID-19, the writing was on the wall for product managers.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

That means if you have 10 products or modules on your platform that target the same market segments, each product team sees those same segments through a slightly different lens, and it’s usually a narrower view that’s limited to user jobs versus a strategic top-down view of the customer organization (that ends with user jobs).

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). Your salesforce is selling to every industry and they all have unique needs, the 20%.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. Is this critical to the company and product strategy?

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BrainStation Product Management

JANUARY 28, 2019

For more than a century, the office furniture industry has worked the same way: Companies have had to navigate furniture dealers, unclear pricing, large markups, and a complicated delivery and installation process. We’re creating a digital experience that has never before existed in this industry. Greg Hayes, Bureau.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The other key thing to remember here is that market data and research is far more available and reliable for specific market segments and product categories (the portfolio) versus individual products (modules of your platform) because, at that level of granularity, research can be difficult to find. In some cases, yes but not always.

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