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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers.

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Understanding Enterprise Product Companies

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here are some thoughts on company-wide structural differences and how we product managers get our work done. It’s a more precise, if less emotional, version of a May talk for Lean Product/UX SV meetup.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. But I find they don’t map well to enterprise companies.

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Jobs to be Done Interview Tips for Product Managers

The Product Guy

I served teachers, students, and administrators, each group with specific product needs and goals. In my new PM role at a large B2C, I felt lost. John Kresse is a mobile product manager at Barnes & Noble. More About The Product Mentor. More About The Product Mentor. Better Products. About John Kresse.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

Up until this point, to understand our customers, we had primarily relied on the Jobs-to-be-Done framework , product sense, research insight, sales input, and a belief that our customers were companies just like us. Through the segmentation process, we found that a B2B versus B2C distinction was sufficient to capture differing needs.

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Four Fundamental Mistakes You Are Making With Product OKRs

The Product Coalition

In B2C companies, this often translates into initiatives with a very rough guesstimation of how much ARR will each initiative bring. For example, maybe you want to start selling to larger enterprises. Maybe you want to prove that you can support enterprises, so you want one such happy customer by the end of the year.

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Expand your addressable market to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

In B2C, that is companies who start with a high end product and then create simpler or less expensive versions of it. In B2B, that is companies who start by selling to smaller businesses and then expand to mid-market and enterprise. By starting at the higher end and expanding downmarket. So what did we do?

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