Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Well, you know, we very often in business talk about strategy and and future state vision. Just you can study. And ultimately, the project manager needs to ensure they know how the project fits within the strategic intent that they’re position. The second thing is Everybody talks about this big picture.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen. Or worse of all, sometimes there was just no Product Vision at all.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Something like, “to increase the number of people who complete their studies with the university” And you could go a step further and add, “…and enter their chosen field of employment”, given that this is typically a student’s end goal and hence a factor in their likelihood to recommend the university.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

The strategic skills comprise the capabilities to create, validate, and evolve an effective product strategy ; develop, review, and update an actionable product roadmap ; use the right KPIs ; choose the right business model and create a financial forecast. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company. Elly is a product manager at an energy tech company in San Francisco. She has been there for two years and was previously studying at UC Berkeley. More About The Product Mentor. About Elly Lin.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 21, 2023

The second part of the process is the product vision, which outlines how you will make progress toward the mission over the next two to three years. That feeds into the product strategy, which is typically set on an annual basis or for six month. The product strategy goes hand-in-hand with your KPIs and goals.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. So what’s next for Lisa and Airship?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

This idea is backed by a well-cited data report , which found that software buyers almost always choose feature-rich products, and when given the choice to add additional features, they always do so. On the flip side, the study found that customer satisfaction drops drastically when those same buyers have to learn too many features.

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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 8, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned product leader or still sharpening your skills, mastering stakeholder dynamics requires an understanding of influence, expectation management, and alignment across teams and departments. Expectation Management : Different stakeholders will have different expectations of the product and the roadmap.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Case Study: Apple as an Analyzer (Fast Follower) While Apple is often seen as a highly innovative company, its success comes more from its role as an analyzer or fast follower.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Jordan Bergtraum is a management consultant with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry, mostly as a head of product for various organizations in the legal, education, facilities management, and pharmaceutical spaces. He has been responsible for product strategy, UX, and teams consisting of product and project managers.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2024

Start with a pilot project that can showcase the benefits of a product-led approach without requiring significant changes to existing processes. Share success stories and case studies from other organizations that have successfully adopted product management practices. Start small and iterate.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Software providers have studied the evolution of this delivery model, and they have implemented many best practices. A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Your architect will need to study the industry benchmark, i.e They have prioritized the ease of use.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Figure 2: Target Customer Scenario Canvas Case Study: Business Intelligence Software Figure 3 shows a ‘Target Customer Scenario Canvas’ example for a company that offers business intelligence solutions for online shops. The canvas puts the customer and his problem into the center and forces the Product Managers to take the customer’s lens.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Prioritization : Prioritizing problems based on a customer-centric vision and insight-driven strategy. Now, let’s explore 5 product concepts of the Product Operating Model: Product culture : The collective mindset focused on customer feedback , innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement for product excellence.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2017

To highlight what those mean, he dives into two case studies of enterprise products. The first tale is of a product that failed, despite being well-funded, tested by several reference customers, and having very little market competition. Integrations, not prerequisites. Make integrations possible, then make them easy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2018

This research has allowed us to make more informed and confident decisions about our product vision and roadmap. When you think about increasing engagement you can probably think of many changes you’d make to your product, or features that you’d add. These are the customers we want to serve and replicate.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

For the ninth edition of our State of Product Management Report this year, we asked product professionals to share their experiences with adapting to uncertainty, how they imagine the future of their solutions with their product vision, and how they are delivering on their vision despite budget constraints and smaller teams.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

Here are 3 newsletters we recommend you read: 25k Q&A: Advice on Strategy, Influence, and Prioritization : This issue discusses ways to implement product strategy in a sales-led company. It touches on topics like building alignment on product vision and balancing commercial, customer, and tech goals.

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UX Planet

MARCH 31, 2024

A strong UX strategy ensures that user-centered principles and insights are integrated with the business strategy. Product strategy strategy guides how to achieve target condition over time. Image by Melissa Perri Components of UX strategy UX strategy has three main components: Vision statement of intent.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

According to Ant Murphy, the reason is simple, you don’t have a prioritization problem, you have a strategy problem. We explain how to create a successful product strategy, the role of product strategy in prioritization, and how to align your prioritization efforts with your strategy.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

What are the improvements the product needs in the next five years? The goal here is to learn about the product vision. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2022

We study our customer’s wants, needs, and behaviors so we can deeply understand their problems and provide the right solutions. Research and data science play a major role in surfacing holistic insights about our customers and ensuring we’re building products that drive real value. Business strategy. Product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How would you improve your favorite product?” A PM can only make improvements to a product if he is intimately familiar with that company’s vision and product strategy. You really want a product manager who asks the right questions and validates assumptions? What are some ideas you have for our product?”:

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