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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

Ever wondered how product leaders juggle massive mergers & acquisitions, tricky integrations, and a pressure-cooker paceall while keeping their teams fired up and focused? From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it.

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14 Corporate Forces Affecting New Products & Ventures

The Product Coalition

Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model. The tool had to be analysed by legal; he had to say what he was going to put on the web, and procurement had to get involved due to data privacy needs. like existing businesses? Usually not.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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When You Need an Interim CFO vs. a Part-time CFO

The Product Coalition

But, you do need some level of financial help from an expert, someone who can cast a trained eye on your cash flow, margins, key performance indicators, and overall profit picture while you concentrate on your team, your products, and your strategies for growth. If you run a midsize to middle market business, you probably have a CFO.

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Why and how I transferred my career from finance to product management

The Product Coalition

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. It’s a tough job, but worth it!

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Voice of Customer: Why VoC should lead your product development process

Usersnap

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting