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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Own special projects including the creation of product documentation, creation of sales training tools, writing product requirement documents. For example, product lifecycle, resource management, or strategic planning process owner. Strong process leadership is an excellent skill for future directors.

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Managing Manufactured Products: Growth and Decline

Mind the Product

Increased sales training, promotion, and product improvements are some of the actions to be considered. If your business plan is for sales of new product A to replace legacy product B, the S&OP forecast will give you early indication if that is indeed happening. Cannibalization effects, intended or unintended.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

Where should you invest your resources? What resources do you need to put in, and at what timeframe, to get which return? There’s some kind of quote that I’ll misquote: when you’ve got scarce resources, it’s much easier to be focused. Like, scarcity of resources is a good thing. Paul: Yeah.

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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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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. When I came in, the first thing I did was recognizing that I was coming to the table with a set of my own sales leadership skills, but that Stripe was a different place. What’s not to like?

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So as part of your launch plan to then do you have a sort of sales enablement and sales training piece of it that your group handles? So recently, we've got a few people who look after that full time who are closer to the sales team people who sort of came up through the ranks of the sales team. Yeah, absolutely.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So as part of your launch plan to then do you have a sort of sales enablement and sales training piece of it that your group handles? So recently, we've got a few people who look after that full time who are closer to the sales team people who sort of came up through the ranks of the sales team. Yeah, absolutely.