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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

Growing up in a tech-friendly household with an entrepreneurial father who owned retail businesses gave her early exposure to both technology and business operations. Over ten years, she rose through the ranks until everyone in the company reported to her. It was during this time that Kim discovered her passion for product management.

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Moving from Solutions to Problems

Folding Burritos

What we want is to create a culture where stakeholders come to us with problems, rather than ready-made ideas and solutions (i.e. Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. features.).

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Imbuing Product Strategy

The Product Guy

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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How to Build a SaaS Platform

The Product Coalition

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. A Cision PR Newswire report projects the SaaS market to grow from $158.2 A Cision PR Newswire report projects the SaaS market to grow from $158.2

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How to Build and Improve Your Product Analytics Strategy

Userpilot

Decide how you can collect product analytics data The next step is to assess your existing data infrastructure to determine whether it can support the data you need. Outdated technology. So for most companies, purchasing an analytics tool is a better option than building one from scratch. Lack of team resources.

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

Product Innovation Educators

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

In the above section, we discussed the competencies of a Product Manager. The competencies vary as you grow in the product organization from a Junior PM role to a VP, Products. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. Product Strategy.