Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. Sounds confusing? Photo by Cup of Couple from Pexels W.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Use it to make better product decisions. Information from the front lines is critical when helping product decision-makers prioritize what to build next.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consumer product management is more like a series of proverbial sprints with new products where B2B product management is more analogous to a marathon of adding chunks of value to existing products with a new products peppered in to keep pace. Both components collectively form the vision for the product.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? If we go back to post 3 of 10 , you’ll see the ripple effect of a customer-facing portfolio vision in full swing when it’s time to craft your portfolio (and product) positioning!

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Innovatemap

JUNE 27, 2023

There are so many educators who played a meaningful role in my journey to becoming a product marketer,” said Maria Otteson , Senior Product Marketer. Our daily mission at Innovatemap is to help leaders achieve their product visions. Because I was that student at one point.”

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In this post, we’ll share the latest Product Manager salary information from Salary.com and how Product Managers can set themselves up for success in 2022 and beyond. . What Is a Product Manager? . Simply put, Product Managers are responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion.

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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 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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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Radical Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash How to iterate less and achieve more In my recent talks and blog posts , I’ve shared the importance of having a clear vision to avoid common product diseases. But once you have a clear vision, what’s next? How do you translate that vision into action? We had a clear vision.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Product management has set everyone else up for success. Product marketing now has a differentiating message to fill the pipeline. Customer on-boarding teams implement with clear customer outcomes as their target, and the product has no major deficiencies that delay the go-live date or the revenue meter.

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Actuation Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Over the past few weeks we’ve considered a number of key product management tools. Today we will look at two of the most important: the Product Vision and Product Strategy documents. Defining a Product Vision Document. The Product Vision document looks into the future.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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280 Group

JANUARY 15, 2020

Product Manager Salary (0-9 YOE) $83,849 – $109,236. The Product Manager is the voice of the customer. This role leads the development and growth strategies—including driving vision and innovation, producing roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives and helping articulate features and benefits to the market.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With strong top-down discovery as the foundation, product managers collaborate and build products that make users better at their jobs in ways that have measurable strategic value to the customer (and to your own organization).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s start by remembering that Agile and Waterfall/Traditional are development methodologies – ways to build a product. Product Managers exist to understand the market, identify customer needs, and determine a product strategy to meet those needs and achieve the company’s business goals (for instance, revenue and profit).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. Vision: It should be inspirational and the guiding post.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this course we’ll introduce 4D roadmaps, a tool for developing highly strategic roadmaps that balance your long-term vision with customer feedback and short-term business priorities. By doing so, they explicitly build their product intuition through each and every quarter's OKR loop.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Being the first product manager at a startup typically means being the 10th or 15th employee, and recognizing that – although product management has both tactical and strategic components – you’ll initially be more focused on tactics. Strategically, this is about focusing vision and limited resources.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked. This is especially true with product strategy, which is still an artifact that most CEOs haven’t seen a great one in action before.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the product planning model above, the vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product; the product strategy states how the vision will be realised; and the product roadmap states how the strategy will be implemented.

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280 Group

APRIL 28, 2019

To ensure proper product backlog management, it’s best to clearly define and validate a product strategy. It will help develop an appropriate product vision. Product strategy usually involves positioning, market opportunities research, target customers, competitors’ analysis, etc.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PlayStation Classic was designed with far too little consideration into product positioning — the most important point of product marketing — and the blunder in sales was a direct result of this glaring oversight. What is Product Positioning?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The B2B Product Manager October 2020. The product led growth model is gaining tremendous momentum. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. As most companies deal with leaner sales pipelines, your product demos are even more critical to making the shortlist. 499/person.

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