Six Suggestions for Shaping Your Strategy Program
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A rigorous approach to strategy keeps an organization healthy. By Art Petty. |
You Can't Innovate Like Apple
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When what you teach and develop every day has the title “Innovation” attached to it, you reach a point where you tire of hearing about Apple. Without questi... |
Beyond SEO: Driving Customer Attraction, Retention, and Top-Line Growth
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Does your website speak to your customers and fulfill your business objectives?
By Jeofrey Bean and Sean Van Tyne
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The Economics of Software as a Service (SaaS) vs. Software as a Product
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There are numerous ways of selling software these days. Software as a Service (SaaS) has been in the consumer market for a while, and is now making significant ... |
Ten Marketing Challenges that Can Make or Break Your Business
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Identify and assess your company's current marketing efforts. Rate your company with our survey and target problem areas by understanding challenges, issues and... |
Monitoring Metrics Puts You in the Drivers Seat
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Learn to focus on key performance indicators to find what is on track and what needs to be changed before it is too late. By Barbara Nelson. |
Ask the Expert: Are There Best Practices for Business Cases?
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Are there best practices for business cases? Is there a standard way to develop a business case for my products? |
Product Strategy Doesn't Just Happen
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Discover the need for developing a process to drive the development of your product strategy in order to achieve sustained growth. Explore both the key aspects ... |
The Egoless Company
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Award-winning companies vary on many dimensions but they all share a focus on products and services that solve customer problems instead of what's important for... |
Pricing for Software Product Manager
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Pricing has far reaching effects beyond the cost of the product. Pricing is just as much a positioning statement as a definition of the cost to buy. By Daniel S... |
Get Results? or Get Approved?
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Marketing is about listening to our customers; we cannot assume that we represent them, that our personal experience is the same as theirs. By Steve Johnson |
Distinctive Competence or nothing
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Developers, executives, managers, sales people and others are all in high demand in our industry. Our time is precious. (And money is not.) By Steve Johnson |
Product and Pricing Strategies
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Pricing has far reaching effects beyond the cost of the product. By Daniel Shefer |
Managing Complex Competitive Environments
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Foremost in the minds of product managers is determining the best way in which to position their products against competitors. The decisions made have huge impl... |
Competitive Analysis: Ready When They Are
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Competitive analysis is a vital function at a company, especially in the fast changing software industry. Yet it is an activity that is often neglected or hapha... |
Competitive Analysis: Digging for Info
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Pointing you in the right direction when you are called upon to analyze the competition. By Jacques Murphy |
OEM'ing Software for Product Managers
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The "ins and outs" of identifying OEM'ing opportunities, successfully negotiating OEM agreements and bringing the deals to fruition. By Daniel Shefer |
Is Your Product A Missionary Or A Savior?
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Is your product a Missionary or a Savior, and what does that mean for your business model? Is one easier than the other? How does this change the role of the Pr... |
Can Customers Doom Your Software?
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How the act of gathering and implementing the wrong requirements can cause your product to lose its competitive edge, and what a Product Manager can do to preve... |
Customers: Love Them As You Would Yourself
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How the Product Management function can help build an enduring connection with your customer base.
By Jacques Murphy |
Working With Partners
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Ideas on how to develop a good marriage with the right partner company for your product, and how Product Managers can play a key role in forming a long lasting ... |
Marrying Up: Partnering with Big Companies
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Learn the basics on what a small company needs to know in order to make its alliance or partnership with a big company work out for the best. By Jacques Murphy |
The Trophy Spouse: Partnering with a Startup
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Tips for large companies facing the challenge of partnering with a startup. By Jacques Murphy |
The Real Ideal: Strategy to Tactics and Back
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The invaluable contribution Product Managers can make to helping the company apply its strategies tactically, and draw from tactics to make solid strategies. By... |
The Fundamentals of Revenue Forecasting
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It is nearly impossible to predict annual revenues precisely, particularly for new products or businesses, but it is critically important for companies to creat... |
When TV Surrenders to Web
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As long as the flow of information shifts from the old model of "from one to many" to "from many to one, " the current TV and print model will crumble. By Nasee... |
Big Talk And Small Steps: Implementing Strategy
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Inventing new strategies, and then implementing them successfully, is a requirement, not an option, to keep a company viable. If you're not moving ahead, you wi... |
Tips For Delivering Consistent Services
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Software plus services plus customer effort equals success. It's critical to take steps to make each service you deliver predictable, complete, and consistent a... |
When Will Google Become Generic?
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Today, there are hundreds of once highly protected famous name brands, which were backed by multi-million dollar promotional budgets, now commonly used in daily... |
Product Pricing and The Socratic Method
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Product pricing, how to structure and set the price of the software product. By Jacques Murphy |
Performance Anxiety: Improving Product Performance
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A user's impression of how fast your product moves from screen to screen, how quickly it calls up lists of records, how seamlessly it performs tasks when you cl... |
Ask the Expert
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Is your company working on several different platforms? Here are some insights if you are tossed between merging platforms or picking the best in breed to elimi... |
When Creative Is the Wrong Tool! The Ideative Process: A Better Tool for Our Constrained World
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When I ask a person if he or she is “creative,” the common response from product and marketing managers, engineers, financial managers, and just about every... |
Doing Market Analysis - Easy Right?
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For anyone involved in product strategy, one of the key milestones is market research. At its best, it uncovers that “diamond” in business and market resear... |
Goals, Readiness and Constraints: The Three Dimensions of Product Launch
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Many companies mistakenly believe their product will sell itself and overcome any adversity. This couldn't be farther from the truth. A successful product launc... |
2 Parts Enlightenment, 1 Part Truth, and a Smidge of Creation
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Building a really strong defense strategy means building a common, clear vision of what is, then creating alternative scenarios for what could be, then developi... |
Play the Product Marketing Game Like a Chess Grandmaster
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By Mike Urbonas |
I Know Nothing about Product Naming (but that Doesn’t Stop Me from Doing It!)
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As a marketer for a new product, naming is something you may have to do even though you know nothing about it. There isn't a magic formula for creating a good p... |