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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

Atif brings valuable insights from a recent PDMA executive workshop where leaders discussed their real-world challenges with strategic decision making and innovation strategy. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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How to Create Business Requirements That Improve Marketing & Sales

Product Management University

Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Identify a business goal that’s common to target customers across one or more market segments.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

She positioned herself at the intersection of different functions, collecting input from business stakeholders to define problems, then transmitting requirements to development teams to create solutions. Instead, it means identifying key stakeholders and involving them at appropriate points in the process.

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TEI 320: Visual strategies to better position your product ideas – with Amy Balliett

Product Innovation Educators

Later I pivoted my career and started my own business, Killer Infographics, creating infographics for online marketing. We merged marketing and visual storytelling and drove success by applying what we had learned with infographics—the best practices of visual storytelling—to all these other types of creative content. .”

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If It Doesn’t Have Customer Value First, FAHGETTABOUDIT!

Product Management University

No matter what role you playproduct management, marketing, sales, customer onboarding, or account managementif your starting point isnt quantifiable customer value, fuhgeddaboudit! Its easy to get caught up in your own goalscorporate goals, sales targets, marketing KPIs, retention quotas. Nothing else matters. End of story.

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The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning – It’s Easy

Product Management University

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park.

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Succeeding with Product Portfolio Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Its goals describe the user and customer benefits the entire portfolio should create and the positive business impact it should achieve. A question I often get asked in my workshops is, How detailed should a portfolio roadmap be? First, the GO Portfolio Roadmap is built on outcomesits an outcome-based, goal-oriented plan.

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