Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Once the products/services with the segments being targeted (SMB, mid-size/large enterprises, industry types) are mapped out, you can start to rationalise the product/market fit as it relates to your own product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our journey has led us to partner with startups and enterprises in more than 250 projects worldwide. It also granted us extensive expertise across various industries and niches, such as fintech, travel, education, healthcare, and more. These leave an exceptional first impression and differentiate our clients from competitors.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Digital transformation is “the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises”, according to an MIT and Capgemini white paper. Gartner says : “Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model”.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2019

If you’ve been in your industry for years, you probably have strong domain expertise but you may not be up-to-date on the latest information. Review the corporate pitch. Perhaps the fastest way to get up to speed on your company and its role in the industry is to review the product and corporate slide decks.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. Going upmarket usually involves a rebranding effort to appear more enterprise-ready. Liam: In this industry, there’s a lot of jargon and confusing terminology.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

Hamilton narrowly defines a successful strategy as creating a route to persistent differential returns for your business. This strength of network effects often leads to a winner-take-all dynamic in industries where network effects are present. I wanted to share his central framework for those looking to develop their strategy chops.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2022

This means the messaging and marketing focus on educating the market about what differentiates their new product from the available alternatives. Product differentiation. Therefore, product differentiation takes the lead in what gets communicated and emphasized during the launch. Identifying new customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

We retailed stores and we sold to companies, including tech companies, and after taking a bit of a break and doing some traveling, I came back to Dublin and took a look around and tech was really beginning to boom. And because I’d sold bicycles to most of the tech companies in Dublin, I had some good contacts.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas has over 15 years of experience in Telecom/IT industry with over 10 years in the field of Product Management.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas has over 15 years of experience in Telecom/IT industry with over 10 years in the field of Product Management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Developers may be more comfortable knowing exactly what the finished product should “look” like, especially if the company views its design and user interface as a differentiator. . With a clickable prototype, an internal review board can see just how the finished product will look AND function.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She majored in Industrial Relations in her undergraduate degree. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas has over 15 years of experience in Telecom/IT industry with over 10 years in the field of Product Management.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. Companies with top-quartile McKinsey Design Index scores outperformed industry-benchmark growth by as much as two to one.

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UX Planet

AUGUST 16, 2024

Whether the project is sparked by an urgent need to transition to the latest tech stack or a calculated rebranding effort, creating a comprehensive website redesign project plan is vital for success. Does your current website suffer from outdated technologies that hamper user experience? Are conversions on the site falling short?

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I would also propose that companies should never differentiate between Product Managers and Product Marketers while hiring and they should encourage transition into one role from another. Both roles thrive on customer/industry feedback (explicit and implicit). It happened with me too. This blog does the opposite.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Before we go any further discussing the activities of a strategic product manager, let’s review the key parts of developing and implementing a product strategy. Common outbound effort activities include: Competitive differentiation. Product Vision. Common inbound effort activities include: Setting the vision. Product planning.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. To help get you started, we’ve curated advice from industry leaders at and outside of Intercom. Establish clear, differentiated roles on your sales team. But that threshold exists.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Email isn’t dead, but superior tools are emerging , like groups that allow one company to share documents with another with time to review – or inter-company chat where a lot of people can look at an issue simultaneously and discuss it in real time. What’s your differentiator? Ultimately, the product works for every company.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 4, 2017

While telephone companies had the better part of a century to secure their position as the leading telecom provider, today’s competitive climate means companies often have just a few years to dominate their industry categories. Competitive differentiation: Are you in an especially competitive industry?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Running an NFT business can also be easier for those not accustomed to deeper technological nuances of Web3, and they can learn them through experience. Additionally, NFTs have a lot of potential use cases that could make a change in how we live our lives, and enterprises can have the opportunity to be game-changers. 'Jack

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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eG Innovations

JULY 30, 2021

As we indicated in our previous blog, AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) refers to the application of machine learning analytics technology that enhance IT operations analytics. eG Enterprise monitors your entire IT landscape – from hardware to application, from network to storage, from virtualization to cloud and containers.

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eG Innovations

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The field of information technology has advanced at a breakneck pace in the last 20 years. Hence, it has become imperative for any business to know and adopt technologies that can make them productive and more competent at the same time. Furthermore, it is predicted that by 2025, the industry will have surpassed USD 350 billion.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Estimates indicate it takes about 3000 raw ideas to make one commercially successful product and in some industries much more. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this. Failure Point #3 – No clear differentiation in the market.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

9:15 Jason Cohen: Building your Permanent Defensible Strategy Slides from Jason Cohen’s Talk A glass of water at room temperature has 7 septillion molecules Each molecule is moving at twice the speed of sound If aligned, the water would shoot off at that speed (like a watersaw) In tech support, most tickets are produced by small clients, but (..)

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. What is the purpose of your enterprise, the “why” in Simon Sinek’s golden circle? Will you follow Porter’s path for differentiation or cost leadership? This is what we did. Where will you play? How will you win?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See  Clients own the IP and provide much of the technical direction.   A glance at a tech company’s website immediately tells me which kind they are.  

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Product managers in more extensive enterprise settings can even operate under titles that don’t distinctly list out “product manager” in it. Having more time to dedicate to making strategic decisions than reactionary ones due to being stuck in a crazy busy state will pay dividends in your product career’s acceleration.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 5, 2021

I have spent 18+ years in the software industry playing various roles: from a developer to an architect to a product manager. My expertise is primarily on Microsoft Windows technologies. I helped architect the company’s Universal Monitor technology at first. How did that technology come about? That was very exciting!

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