Business of Software Conference

MAY 9, 2022

April Dunford: Confusing Positioning and Strategy. I started getting clients come to me, saying, what we want to do is a strategy session and I was like, I don’t do strategy. I do positioning, and they’re like, hey, yeah, it’s the same thing.” How are vision, strategy, and positioning related?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Then think of the vision for each product as the ultimate “operational goal/outcome” customers get from that product.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Aruna Thapa , Senior Director of Product Strategy at IQVIA Technologies. Despite initial doubts about our product’s market fit, research uncovered core capabilities, enabling me to position it effectively. I love that.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2022

According to a recent 280 Group poll, only 32% of organizations currently have a defined Product Marketing Manager role. This position has gained traction in enterprise organizations over the past few years, and for good reason: Product Marketing is essential for getting the word out about a product and driving sales.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As a dedicated Disney and Hulu enthusiast, and a passionate product fanatic deeply immersed in the most effective modern product strategies of a product manager, I found myself engrossed in Disney’s recent acquisition, gaining full control of Hulu. Boosting Revenue Generation: Hulu is a profitable streaming service. By

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? This comprehensive guide empowers you to harness the power of digital transformation strategies, propelling your business toward a thriving future. What are digital transformation strategies?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Businesses can feel it too: declining KPIs, competitors catching up, market impact waning. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

The spectrum of roles in product management is broad, ranging from highly specialised to more generalist positions. There’s a clear distinction between technical and business-oriented roles, as well as between those focused on B2C and B2B markets. Sales-Led strategy: Sales-Centric Approach. For example. Revenue Centric Metrics.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 28, 2019

That brings us to the subject of influence among product management and product marketing teams. Those who possess more market knowledge wield far more influence than those who don’t. And that market knowledge is the key to leading from a position of strength. Market Knowledge Defined. The diagnosis is simple.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. We knew our market inside and out. Should we only offer the product to members or the market at large? No choices = no product strategy.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Let’s get right to it!

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280 Group

MARCH 11, 2022

This article details general Product Marketing Manager salary data based on salary information reported by Salary.com in January 2022. . Status of the Job 2022: Product Marketing Manager. What is a Product Marketing Manager? . If we learned anything from the past two years, we learned to expect the unexpected.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

This metamorphosis was not just a change in title; it was a profound realization of the impact that research and strategy can have on the very foundation of the products we create. It required navigating a diverse landscape of stakeholders, including software developers, marketing teams, and end-users with varied technical backgrounds.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2022

The answer lies in restaurant branding and marketing strategies. Before going into a specific restaurant branding strategy, we need to understand the concept of restaurant branding and how it works. Thanks to the restaurant branding strategy, your business would be differentiated from competitors from customer views.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] It’s the first step to bring about positive change.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Are you looking for the best strategies on how to market software products? Marketing software products can be challenging with the abundance of tools out there saying they do everything for everyone. How is marketing for software products different? You might be wondering, how to compete. Let's get started.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

With the right go-to-market team, your new launches won’t suffer unnecessary delays and you can increase adoption but focusing on the right things. TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. What’s a go-to-market strategy?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

On the positive side, an ethical product increases the chances of achieving lasting product success, and it reduces the risk that the reputation of the company suffers, as some tech companies have had to experience in recent years. To see how this can be done, let’s explore how the success factors can be applied to the product vision board.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

However, if there’s one skill that is common to all product managers, it’s continuous market monitoring and research. That’s where a market requirements document comes into play. The market requirement document is a strategic artefact that product managers usually write. What is included in a market requirements document (MRD)?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. Your job is to get them past difficult choices, lay out the winning strategy and help them achieve the vision. Having progressed my career in product strategy and management, I’ll never forget my early assignments as part of a larger product team.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today we wrap up the three part series on creating your strategy stack. Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! Participants: Product Manager (required), Product Owner (required), Development Manager (required), Business stakeholders (optional) Guiding Questions: What are the highest value projects that will help realize your strategy at the end of the roadmap.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Hybrid work environments are now commonplace, requiring distributed teams to find ways to collaborate effectively using tools like Zoom, Teams, Jira, Slack and others across various time zones, while bringing innovative products to market. Director of Product Management Salary Total Compensation $245,556 .

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution.

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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? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 25, 2024

Moore’s work is focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations, and how one overcomes the challenge of transitioning from serving early adopters to the mainstream. Crossing the chasm requires selling to “pragmatist customers” who, unlike early adopters, will not buy on the basis of a vision.

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are looking for a VP Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. Apply for this position. Grow and lead the product marketing team. Apply for this position. About Feedly.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. Let’s dream for just a minute. Economic buyers are thrilled with the partnership they’ve formed with your organization.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. The product roadmap then reflects that strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2022

Micro goals vs macro goals in product marketing: Have you ever wondered what the difference is and how can you use both to achieve customer success and product growth ? As a product marketing manager, you need to set goals that would guide and motivate you and your team members. What is a macro goal in product marketing?

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