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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 7 of 10 – Portfolio Positioning Is What Makes Your Product Positioning More Strategic

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Here’s a simple example of portfolio positioning and how it makes your product positioning more strategic. Your accounts payable product improves the customer’s cash flow. It sounds strategic. Even more strategic when customers use both, right? What CFO doesn’t want a stronger balance sheet?

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 10 of 10 – How to Set Customer Success Managers Up To Play Offense

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In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. Customers are happy (and loyal). Let’s dream for just a minute.

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Strategic Portfolio Management 3 of 10 – How To Use a Portfolio Vision to Lead Products

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Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 5 of 10 – Integrating Business Processes vs. Products

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Let’s start this discussion of integrating business processes vs. products with the spotlight on pre-sales, sales, and customer on-boarding since they bear the brunt of the ripple effect. The transition meeting with customer on-boarding is complete and it’s time to make sure customers get the value they expected.

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Becoming More Strategic – Portfolio Management 2 of 10 – Bridging the Customer Discovery Gap

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Market and customer discovery is the single most foundational skill for success in product management and product marketing. There are two things to consider when it comes to being more strategic in your discovery. Traditional product/customer discovery won’t even get you in the ballpark.

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Strategic Portfolio Management 2 of 10 – How To Bridge the Strategic vs Tactical Customer Discovery Gap

Product Management University

Market and customer discovery is the single most foundational skill for success in product management and product marketing. There are two things to consider when it comes to being more strategic in your discovery. Traditional product/customer discovery won’t even get you in the ballpark.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 9 of 10 – The Best Product Launches Launch the Story, Not the Product

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Existing customers have greater confidence you’re keeping pace with or staying ahead of the technology curve in ways that benefit them. Existing customers have greater confidence you’re keeping pace with or staying ahead of the technology curve in ways that benefit them. You’ve just built some cool new A.I. All good, right?