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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. We need to become more vision-driven and think of our product as a mechanism for creating change in the world. Why does that world need changing?

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Customer-Facing Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies. Create one customer-facing vision for the portfolio, something that’s strategic to every customer, and then create a tactical business goal for each product that supports the portfolio vision.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies. Create one customer-facing vision for the portfolio, something that’s strategic to every customer, and then create a tactical business goal for each product that supports the portfolio vision. Sales Training.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Your roadmap needs to tell a story of how you’re going to reach your product vision.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

You can create sales training and prepare go-to-market plans for upcoming feature launches months in advance. Start with company vision and direction. To reiterate the obvious, the leadership team needs to set the company vision and direction. Everything flows from this vision. You can align on direction.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. Distilling the 40,000-foot vision. It was so fun.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I realized I get way more value out of helping other sales people figure out how to tap into their full potential. Distilling the 40,000-foot vision. It was so fun.