The document discusses innovation and product failure. It suggests that new products often fail because they do not adequately fulfill the jobs customers need done in their lives. Customers are increasingly erratic and difficult to segment using traditional methods. Firms should focus on understanding the non-obvious jobs customers need fulfilled, and how new products can better address those needs through their impact on resources, processes and values within the firm.
Over the years we’ve noticed that even amazingly creative and unique companies can struggle with getting ideas off the ground.
Whether it’s a simple fix to an organisational chart, or a bit of nudging in the right direction to help a company to launch a product idea with an impactful return on investment (ROI). Making improvements can turn a new product dream into a reality, and we know the value in having an extra set of eyes (and hands) to help with a company’s innovation efforts.
That’s why we put together this informational guide - to share some of our experiences and help even more teams and companies to leverage their inner talents and unlock their
innovation potential.
In this guide, we’ll share some of our best tips and tricks, including how to:
> Recognise trends and how customer preferences change;
> Focus on your company strengths in order to get the most out of innovation;
> Identify and remove common obstacles to innovation;
> Build levels of innovation that come naturally and are sustained - through the innovation value pyramid; and,
> Use practical exercises to future-proof your innovation efforts.
Who this book is for
Every business needs innovation. It’s commonly associated with it’s long-term success.1 It helps a business to solve problems, save precious time and money, and set it apart from the competition so it can grow faster.
Every employee within a company can contribute to innovation, too. Whether you’re the boss of an energetic startup company, an aspiring leader or an employee at an organisation, you’ll be able to use this guide to help build innovation in your professional scenario.
We’ll use examples of all sorts of different types of businesses: from software companies, construction firms, tech businesses to self-employed consultants. Even if your unique business model is not specifically discussed, you’ll be able to apply the methods without issue.
Innovolo is an active supporter of the idea that innovation is important (dare we say - essential) for any business to thrive.
If you’re interested in knowing why (and how to do it yourself), then read on!
Bradley Pallister
This document discusses strategic media planning and some central issues to consider. It questions whether a brand is new or known, the appropriate ad length, when to advertise, and whether to focus on pressure or continuity. It also questions if TV alone is sufficient or if traditional media only should be used. The document advocates using feedback from market performance to guide media planning and determining what works best for a brand based on the connection between share of voice and share of market. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of discovering and integrating "drivers of sales" into media planning.
Four Powerful Marketing Concepts from Digital SummitZachary Nelson
During Digital Summit Kansas City, four big marketing concepts were discussed throughout breakout sessions and by presenters. This presentation is a high-level overview of those concepts.
The document discusses competitive intelligence and disruptive innovation. It defines competitive intelligence as collecting and analyzing information to help companies make strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. It discusses techniques for analyzing competitors, customers, and technologies. It also introduces the concepts of sustaining and disruptive innovation, where sustaining innovations improve existing products but disruptive innovations introduce simpler, more affordable options.
Every marketer knows that metrics and KPIs are important. The problem is that many, if not most marketers don’t really know why they are important or what the difference is between the two. This article will cut through the clutter and provide clear and simple definitions and explanations that help you understand what metrics and KPIs are, as well as the differences between them.
This document outlines a road map for customer discovery, validation, creation, and company building. It provides guidance on formulating hypotheses about customers, problems, competitors and markets. It then guides the user to test hypotheses by gathering customer insights and feedback. Based on learnings, the user iterates or exits. Next, it focuses on validating the business model by preparing sales materials, hiring salespeople, and selling to early adopters. It then covers customer creation through demand generation and positioning. Finally, it addresses scaling the company through mainstream customers, managing growth, and developing functional departments and culture.
Mastering the basics of Account PlanningFeyi Olubodun
The document discusses foundational principles of account planning and strategic thinking. It emphasizes that account planning involves deploying strategic thinking skills to advertising objectives. The role of the planner is to ensure planning solves client problems rather than doing the planning. An effective strategy requires a sustainable differentiator, knowledge of competition and consumers, and understanding consumer behavior is always changing. The planning cycle involves understanding the current status, objectives, developing strategies to meet objectives, and evaluating progress. Effective strategic thinking considers the consumer experience and behavior rather than just responding to competition. Planners should apply their skills to their own lives by developing a strategic plan and following it to enjoy the journey.
The document discusses innovation and product failure. It suggests that new products often fail because they do not adequately fulfill the jobs customers need done in their lives. Customers are increasingly erratic and difficult to segment using traditional methods. Firms should focus on understanding the non-obvious jobs customers need fulfilled, and how new products can better address those needs through their impact on resources, processes and values within the firm.
Over the years we’ve noticed that even amazingly creative and unique companies can struggle with getting ideas off the ground.
Whether it’s a simple fix to an organisational chart, or a bit of nudging in the right direction to help a company to launch a product idea with an impactful return on investment (ROI). Making improvements can turn a new product dream into a reality, and we know the value in having an extra set of eyes (and hands) to help with a company’s innovation efforts.
That’s why we put together this informational guide - to share some of our experiences and help even more teams and companies to leverage their inner talents and unlock their
innovation potential.
In this guide, we’ll share some of our best tips and tricks, including how to:
> Recognise trends and how customer preferences change;
> Focus on your company strengths in order to get the most out of innovation;
> Identify and remove common obstacles to innovation;
> Build levels of innovation that come naturally and are sustained - through the innovation value pyramid; and,
> Use practical exercises to future-proof your innovation efforts.
Who this book is for
Every business needs innovation. It’s commonly associated with it’s long-term success.1 It helps a business to solve problems, save precious time and money, and set it apart from the competition so it can grow faster.
Every employee within a company can contribute to innovation, too. Whether you’re the boss of an energetic startup company, an aspiring leader or an employee at an organisation, you’ll be able to use this guide to help build innovation in your professional scenario.
We’ll use examples of all sorts of different types of businesses: from software companies, construction firms, tech businesses to self-employed consultants. Even if your unique business model is not specifically discussed, you’ll be able to apply the methods without issue.
Innovolo is an active supporter of the idea that innovation is important (dare we say - essential) for any business to thrive.
If you’re interested in knowing why (and how to do it yourself), then read on!
Bradley Pallister
This document discusses strategic media planning and some central issues to consider. It questions whether a brand is new or known, the appropriate ad length, when to advertise, and whether to focus on pressure or continuity. It also questions if TV alone is sufficient or if traditional media only should be used. The document advocates using feedback from market performance to guide media planning and determining what works best for a brand based on the connection between share of voice and share of market. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of discovering and integrating "drivers of sales" into media planning.
Four Powerful Marketing Concepts from Digital SummitZachary Nelson
During Digital Summit Kansas City, four big marketing concepts were discussed throughout breakout sessions and by presenters. This presentation is a high-level overview of those concepts.
The document discusses competitive intelligence and disruptive innovation. It defines competitive intelligence as collecting and analyzing information to help companies make strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. It discusses techniques for analyzing competitors, customers, and technologies. It also introduces the concepts of sustaining and disruptive innovation, where sustaining innovations improve existing products but disruptive innovations introduce simpler, more affordable options.
Every marketer knows that metrics and KPIs are important. The problem is that many, if not most marketers don’t really know why they are important or what the difference is between the two. This article will cut through the clutter and provide clear and simple definitions and explanations that help you understand what metrics and KPIs are, as well as the differences between them.
This document outlines a road map for customer discovery, validation, creation, and company building. It provides guidance on formulating hypotheses about customers, problems, competitors and markets. It then guides the user to test hypotheses by gathering customer insights and feedback. Based on learnings, the user iterates or exits. Next, it focuses on validating the business model by preparing sales materials, hiring salespeople, and selling to early adopters. It then covers customer creation through demand generation and positioning. Finally, it addresses scaling the company through mainstream customers, managing growth, and developing functional departments and culture.
Mastering the basics of Account PlanningFeyi Olubodun
The document discusses foundational principles of account planning and strategic thinking. It emphasizes that account planning involves deploying strategic thinking skills to advertising objectives. The role of the planner is to ensure planning solves client problems rather than doing the planning. An effective strategy requires a sustainable differentiator, knowledge of competition and consumers, and understanding consumer behavior is always changing. The planning cycle involves understanding the current status, objectives, developing strategies to meet objectives, and evaluating progress. Effective strategic thinking considers the consumer experience and behavior rather than just responding to competition. Planners should apply their skills to their own lives by developing a strategic plan and following it to enjoy the journey.
The Epic Collision of Marketing and TechnologyGodfrey
The document discusses the collision between marketing and technology. It notes that technology is changing exponentially while organizations change logarithmically, creating challenges for marketers. It also discusses how the customer experience has become digital and powered by software. This has significant implications for how marketing functions and succeeds, requiring marketers to adopt more technical skills and adapt using agile marketing principles to stay responsive to constant technological changes. The rise of marketing technology is creating new opportunities for marketers but also requires developing new hybrid roles of "marketing technologists" to bridge both domains.
The 2015 RSW/US New Year Outlook survey was completed by 123 senior level Marketers and 158 Marketing Agency executives during December, 2014.
The purpose of the survey was to glean insights relative to marketer and agency perspective as they each headed into 2015.
Topics explored included “troubling trends”, spending expectations, the impact of Republican control of the House and Senate, the value of using search consultants to help manage searches and the movement to consolidate agency rosters, among many others.
As in the past, Adweek contributed questions which were included in both the marketer and the agency survey.
In some cases, we compared the responses of questions in this survey to the same question asked as far back as 2010 to help provide yearly perspective.
Our hope is the key findings and implications from this study are of value as you kick your marketing and sales planning into gear for 2015.
Intelligence-Driven Innovation & Product Development: an Exercise-Driven, Int...Arik Johnson
This document summarizes an interactive workshop on intelligence-driven innovation and product development. The workshop covers techniques for understanding competitors, customers, and technologies through primary and secondary research analysis. It discusses frameworks for analyzing information to develop insights and recommendations. The workshop involves exercises analyzing competitor scenarios using concepts like disruptive innovation, value chains, and predicting industry change.
The document discusses account planning in marketing communications. Account planning involves managing the four Ms: the right market, motivation, message, and media. It focuses on deeply understanding consumers to ensure marketing communications have the right message for the target audience. The account planner acts as a representative for consumers within agencies. Their role is to research consumers and provide insights to help create effective and creative advertising.
This document discusses market mix models and some of the challenges involved in their use. It begins by explaining how marketers turned to more scientific approaches like market mix models to address demands for accountability and ROI assessment. However, several challenges were overlooked, including misunderstanding what models can and cannot do, data integration issues, and the limitations of only using observational data. The document then provides an overview of how market mix models work today and some of the technical issues that must be addressed, such as collinearity of factors, data quality problems, and endogeneity. It concludes by noting the need to accommodate different effects like carryover, diminishing returns, and cross-sectional differences across segments.
1) The document discusses a proposed "HyperMembership" program by Talentelle to expand their customer base among women in Montreal.
2) The program would encourage women to forward an invitation to join Talentelle to 5 other women they know, in order to rapidly increase membership in a "nuclear escalation".
3) It is argued that a larger membership would allow Talentelle to develop products and services faster through collaboration, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of growing value and membership.
WEBINAR - PR Measurement Pays: Connecting Media Coverage to Business ObjectivesAgility PR Solutions
Here are the slides from our webinar - PR Measurement Pays: Connecting Media Coverage to Business Objectives:
PR drives revenue. It impacts P&L. It has a direct effect on whether or not your organization reaches its goals.
Understanding how - and what's working (or isn't) - is critical.
The good news? It's easy.
In this 45-minute webinar, Measurement Queen Katie Paine is going to walk us through three examples of organizations - both for-profit and non-profit - that aligned their media metrics to their business objectives...and saw success because of it.
In this webinar we learnt how PR measurement has evolved, how to choose the right metrics, and how to finally and clearly prove that PR contributes to the bottom line.
realSociable - Creating a need and changing sales flowDalia Asterbadi
If you missed my talk on the new business case for social - here is the slides. How to build a pro-active ROI focused effort that brings marketing spend and sales efforts in a direction that makes the team stand out. realSociable offers companies a no-fuss, no-nonsense approach to engaging with its funnel to increase sales capacity. We give you ESP with your customers!
So, You Want to be a Product Marketer? Here's How (ProductCamp Boston 2016)ProductCamp Boston
Product marketing is the process of promoting and selling a product to an audience. When compared to product management, product marketing deals with more outbound marketing or customer-facing tasks. If you are considering a career in product marketing, this session will give you a good idea of what you're getting yourself into and how you can be a success in your role.
About Carole Gunst and Rodan Zadeh
Carole Gunst is Marketing Director at Attunity, a data management software company. She is a Boston-based marketer who has handled product marketing for technology companies ranging in size from boot-strapped ventures to major corporations.
Rodan Zadeh is Strategy and Marketing Leader
Marketing Automation and Your CRM: Lead Qualification and Nurturing 101for su...Derek Grant
Pardot identifies how Lead Qualification, Lead Management and Lead Nurturing can help NetSuite users objectively identify the best leads, while nurturing the early stage leads until they show buying signals.
The document provides an overview of different types of buyers in B2B sales and how sales methodology needs to differ based on the buyer and type of solution being sold. It discusses three main types of buyers - early adopters, early majority, and late majority - who have different expectations and purchase processes. For innovative solutions targeting early adopters, the vendor engages with customers from the "mentor" phase through the full purchase process. For mature solutions sought by early majority buyers, vendors engage at the "case" phase during a competitive procurement. Commodity solutions sought by late majority only involve vendor engagement at the final "transaction" phase.
Voice of the Prospect: The Future of SalesPeopleMetrics
Welcome to the future of sales. Trigger simple surveys to your prospects in order to get the best information possible. Save deals with simple course corrects.
The CI Software Spectrum: Connecting, Automating & Distributing Intelligence ...Arik Johnson
The document discusses competitive intelligence (CI) software and its ability to automate, collaborate, synthesize, and connect CI producers and consumers. It reviews 10 CI software applications and vendors that were nominated by actual users. Key trends observed include CI software taking the form of development kits that can be customized more than packaged applications, and the rise of hosted options to route around IT department bottlenecks. The review finds an emerging "application poly-culture" with capabilities that can be combined through "mashups".
This document summarizes key findings from a study of the IPA Databank on marketing effectiveness in the digital era. Some of the main points include:
- Mass marketing and broad-reach campaigns are still effective at driving market share growth, which is a key driver of profit. The digital revolution has increased the potential effectiveness of most marketing forms, including traditional media.
- A balance of long-term brand building (around 60% of spend) and short-term activation (around 40% of spend) is still the best strategy. Video advertising, both online and offline, is the most effective brand-building format, while paid search and email emerge as the most effective activation channels.
- However,
The document is a sales playbook from Balderton Capital that provides guidance for founders and executive teams on building an efficient B2B sales team. It covers topics such as optimal sales structure, compensation plans, pipeline generation, and key metrics. The playbook is intended as a comprehensive guide for everything a founder needs to know about building and managing an enterprise sales function.
Everyone in business – and in marketing especially – knows that you need to have a value proposition (aka, value prop). But yet, no one really seems to know why, it’s just one of those things that if you’re in business, you’re supposed to have.
What’s worse, many marketers don’t know what a value prop should include or how to develop one. In Part 2 of this blog, we’ll explain how to quickly and easily craft an effective value proposition.
Managing those qualified but not-ready-to-buy leads in advance of an active sales process is quickly becoming one of the most important roles for B2B marketing organizations. The justification and math is clear—the more actively you can nurture leads and build long-term relationships based on trust and credibility, well before the prospect is ready to buy, the more likely you are to win the business and increase your conversion rates over time.
And what’s more, effective lead nurturing strategies and implementations can significantly decrease required marketing budget for new leads over time while increasing marketing- sourced opportunities in your sales pipeline.
The following pages provide several strategic and tactical best practices for introducing, launching and executing a lead nurturing or marketing automation effort for your organization.
This document discusses the importance of business-to-business (B2B) companies adopting a more customer-centric 1:1 marketing strategy like business-to-consumer (B2C) companies. It recommends that B2B companies focus on building relationships with individual customers, understand their objectives and workflows, and develop products that provide the most value. The document also outlines steps to implement a front-end customer strategy, including mapping the real market, understanding customer workflows and objectives, and developing valuable products. It notes when such a strategy makes the most sense and how to ensure ongoing implementation.
This document outlines a 6 step social media plan for success: 1) Map your plan by defining goals like increasing sales or brand awareness. 2) Create brand profiles on social media with a 45 second elevator pitch. 3) Build your network by connecting with contacts from your email. 4) Start sharing content like helpful articles. 5) Track and measure engagement metrics. 6) Manage your time by dedicating 15 minutes per day. The document also lists common pitfalls to avoid and recommends tools for social media management.
Serious Games Help Teams Solve Tough Problems, Engage Customers DifferentlyTom Grant
This document discusses how serious games can help teams solve problems and engage customers. It provides an overview of what constitutes a serious game and examples of how teams have used them. Specific benefits mentioned include helping with ideation, requirements collection and validation, rapid decision-making, and improving team dynamics. Serious games leverage intrinsic human motivation and create a richer conversation compared to traditional project discussions. The document encourages organizations to incorporate serious games on an ongoing basis into requirements, planning, and retrospection processes.
PM becomes more strategic...Are you ready?Tom Grant
The document discusses how product management is becoming more strategic in organizations. It notes that PMs are now reporting more directly to CEOs and are expected to have stronger business skills. They are tasked with delivering higher value to more types of customers. The document outlines challenges like agile development, social media, and cloud computing that require PMs to take new approaches like understanding market needs, clearly communicating value, and focusing on innovation processes. It advises PMs to assess their departments, create specializations, insist on decision-making power, balance authority with accountability, and propose bigger changes to fully embrace their strategic role.
The Epic Collision of Marketing and TechnologyGodfrey
The document discusses the collision between marketing and technology. It notes that technology is changing exponentially while organizations change logarithmically, creating challenges for marketers. It also discusses how the customer experience has become digital and powered by software. This has significant implications for how marketing functions and succeeds, requiring marketers to adopt more technical skills and adapt using agile marketing principles to stay responsive to constant technological changes. The rise of marketing technology is creating new opportunities for marketers but also requires developing new hybrid roles of "marketing technologists" to bridge both domains.
The 2015 RSW/US New Year Outlook survey was completed by 123 senior level Marketers and 158 Marketing Agency executives during December, 2014.
The purpose of the survey was to glean insights relative to marketer and agency perspective as they each headed into 2015.
Topics explored included “troubling trends”, spending expectations, the impact of Republican control of the House and Senate, the value of using search consultants to help manage searches and the movement to consolidate agency rosters, among many others.
As in the past, Adweek contributed questions which were included in both the marketer and the agency survey.
In some cases, we compared the responses of questions in this survey to the same question asked as far back as 2010 to help provide yearly perspective.
Our hope is the key findings and implications from this study are of value as you kick your marketing and sales planning into gear for 2015.
Intelligence-Driven Innovation & Product Development: an Exercise-Driven, Int...Arik Johnson
This document summarizes an interactive workshop on intelligence-driven innovation and product development. The workshop covers techniques for understanding competitors, customers, and technologies through primary and secondary research analysis. It discusses frameworks for analyzing information to develop insights and recommendations. The workshop involves exercises analyzing competitor scenarios using concepts like disruptive innovation, value chains, and predicting industry change.
The document discusses account planning in marketing communications. Account planning involves managing the four Ms: the right market, motivation, message, and media. It focuses on deeply understanding consumers to ensure marketing communications have the right message for the target audience. The account planner acts as a representative for consumers within agencies. Their role is to research consumers and provide insights to help create effective and creative advertising.
This document discusses market mix models and some of the challenges involved in their use. It begins by explaining how marketers turned to more scientific approaches like market mix models to address demands for accountability and ROI assessment. However, several challenges were overlooked, including misunderstanding what models can and cannot do, data integration issues, and the limitations of only using observational data. The document then provides an overview of how market mix models work today and some of the technical issues that must be addressed, such as collinearity of factors, data quality problems, and endogeneity. It concludes by noting the need to accommodate different effects like carryover, diminishing returns, and cross-sectional differences across segments.
1) The document discusses a proposed "HyperMembership" program by Talentelle to expand their customer base among women in Montreal.
2) The program would encourage women to forward an invitation to join Talentelle to 5 other women they know, in order to rapidly increase membership in a "nuclear escalation".
3) It is argued that a larger membership would allow Talentelle to develop products and services faster through collaboration, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of growing value and membership.
WEBINAR - PR Measurement Pays: Connecting Media Coverage to Business ObjectivesAgility PR Solutions
Here are the slides from our webinar - PR Measurement Pays: Connecting Media Coverage to Business Objectives:
PR drives revenue. It impacts P&L. It has a direct effect on whether or not your organization reaches its goals.
Understanding how - and what's working (or isn't) - is critical.
The good news? It's easy.
In this 45-minute webinar, Measurement Queen Katie Paine is going to walk us through three examples of organizations - both for-profit and non-profit - that aligned their media metrics to their business objectives...and saw success because of it.
In this webinar we learnt how PR measurement has evolved, how to choose the right metrics, and how to finally and clearly prove that PR contributes to the bottom line.
realSociable - Creating a need and changing sales flowDalia Asterbadi
If you missed my talk on the new business case for social - here is the slides. How to build a pro-active ROI focused effort that brings marketing spend and sales efforts in a direction that makes the team stand out. realSociable offers companies a no-fuss, no-nonsense approach to engaging with its funnel to increase sales capacity. We give you ESP with your customers!
So, You Want to be a Product Marketer? Here's How (ProductCamp Boston 2016)ProductCamp Boston
Product marketing is the process of promoting and selling a product to an audience. When compared to product management, product marketing deals with more outbound marketing or customer-facing tasks. If you are considering a career in product marketing, this session will give you a good idea of what you're getting yourself into and how you can be a success in your role.
About Carole Gunst and Rodan Zadeh
Carole Gunst is Marketing Director at Attunity, a data management software company. She is a Boston-based marketer who has handled product marketing for technology companies ranging in size from boot-strapped ventures to major corporations.
Rodan Zadeh is Strategy and Marketing Leader
Marketing Automation and Your CRM: Lead Qualification and Nurturing 101for su...Derek Grant
Pardot identifies how Lead Qualification, Lead Management and Lead Nurturing can help NetSuite users objectively identify the best leads, while nurturing the early stage leads until they show buying signals.
The document provides an overview of different types of buyers in B2B sales and how sales methodology needs to differ based on the buyer and type of solution being sold. It discusses three main types of buyers - early adopters, early majority, and late majority - who have different expectations and purchase processes. For innovative solutions targeting early adopters, the vendor engages with customers from the "mentor" phase through the full purchase process. For mature solutions sought by early majority buyers, vendors engage at the "case" phase during a competitive procurement. Commodity solutions sought by late majority only involve vendor engagement at the final "transaction" phase.
Voice of the Prospect: The Future of SalesPeopleMetrics
Welcome to the future of sales. Trigger simple surveys to your prospects in order to get the best information possible. Save deals with simple course corrects.
The CI Software Spectrum: Connecting, Automating & Distributing Intelligence ...Arik Johnson
The document discusses competitive intelligence (CI) software and its ability to automate, collaborate, synthesize, and connect CI producers and consumers. It reviews 10 CI software applications and vendors that were nominated by actual users. Key trends observed include CI software taking the form of development kits that can be customized more than packaged applications, and the rise of hosted options to route around IT department bottlenecks. The review finds an emerging "application poly-culture" with capabilities that can be combined through "mashups".
This document summarizes key findings from a study of the IPA Databank on marketing effectiveness in the digital era. Some of the main points include:
- Mass marketing and broad-reach campaigns are still effective at driving market share growth, which is a key driver of profit. The digital revolution has increased the potential effectiveness of most marketing forms, including traditional media.
- A balance of long-term brand building (around 60% of spend) and short-term activation (around 40% of spend) is still the best strategy. Video advertising, both online and offline, is the most effective brand-building format, while paid search and email emerge as the most effective activation channels.
- However,
The document is a sales playbook from Balderton Capital that provides guidance for founders and executive teams on building an efficient B2B sales team. It covers topics such as optimal sales structure, compensation plans, pipeline generation, and key metrics. The playbook is intended as a comprehensive guide for everything a founder needs to know about building and managing an enterprise sales function.
Everyone in business – and in marketing especially – knows that you need to have a value proposition (aka, value prop). But yet, no one really seems to know why, it’s just one of those things that if you’re in business, you’re supposed to have.
What’s worse, many marketers don’t know what a value prop should include or how to develop one. In Part 2 of this blog, we’ll explain how to quickly and easily craft an effective value proposition.
Managing those qualified but not-ready-to-buy leads in advance of an active sales process is quickly becoming one of the most important roles for B2B marketing organizations. The justification and math is clear—the more actively you can nurture leads and build long-term relationships based on trust and credibility, well before the prospect is ready to buy, the more likely you are to win the business and increase your conversion rates over time.
And what’s more, effective lead nurturing strategies and implementations can significantly decrease required marketing budget for new leads over time while increasing marketing- sourced opportunities in your sales pipeline.
The following pages provide several strategic and tactical best practices for introducing, launching and executing a lead nurturing or marketing automation effort for your organization.
This document discusses the importance of business-to-business (B2B) companies adopting a more customer-centric 1:1 marketing strategy like business-to-consumer (B2C) companies. It recommends that B2B companies focus on building relationships with individual customers, understand their objectives and workflows, and develop products that provide the most value. The document also outlines steps to implement a front-end customer strategy, including mapping the real market, understanding customer workflows and objectives, and developing valuable products. It notes when such a strategy makes the most sense and how to ensure ongoing implementation.
This document outlines a 6 step social media plan for success: 1) Map your plan by defining goals like increasing sales or brand awareness. 2) Create brand profiles on social media with a 45 second elevator pitch. 3) Build your network by connecting with contacts from your email. 4) Start sharing content like helpful articles. 5) Track and measure engagement metrics. 6) Manage your time by dedicating 15 minutes per day. The document also lists common pitfalls to avoid and recommends tools for social media management.
Serious Games Help Teams Solve Tough Problems, Engage Customers DifferentlyTom Grant
This document discusses how serious games can help teams solve problems and engage customers. It provides an overview of what constitutes a serious game and examples of how teams have used them. Specific benefits mentioned include helping with ideation, requirements collection and validation, rapid decision-making, and improving team dynamics. Serious games leverage intrinsic human motivation and create a richer conversation compared to traditional project discussions. The document encourages organizations to incorporate serious games on an ongoing basis into requirements, planning, and retrospection processes.
PM becomes more strategic...Are you ready?Tom Grant
The document discusses how product management is becoming more strategic in organizations. It notes that PMs are now reporting more directly to CEOs and are expected to have stronger business skills. They are tasked with delivering higher value to more types of customers. The document outlines challenges like agile development, social media, and cloud computing that require PMs to take new approaches like understanding market needs, clearly communicating value, and focusing on innovation processes. It advises PMs to assess their departments, create specializations, insist on decision-making power, balance authority with accountability, and propose bigger changes to fully embrace their strategic role.
The document discusses challenges with requirements in agile software development projects. It suggests that requirements often slow down agile teams and fail to keep pace with faster development cycles. To address this, the document proposes that requirements need to:
1) Define business value more clearly; 2) Involve better requirements toolkits that evolve with new techniques; and 3) Find the right cadence of requirements at different stages of development. It also suggests asking more of requirements professionals by developing their skills in areas like design thinking.
Product Management Is Really Innovation ManagementTom Grant
No list of tasks or responsibilities captures the essence of product management. As companies grapple with the challenges with innovation, they have realized that the product manager is really the shepherd of innovation. The essential role of product management, therefore, starts with the generation of ideas, and does not end until customers adopt these ideas, and the company has assessed the assumptions and strategies for every part of the innovation process.
Tom Grant's presentation on the evolution of product launches. Many industry trends are changing the definition of launches, connecting them to specific business outcomes that are meaningful to the customer.
The document summarizes the events of LNU's 89th foundation day celebration. It describes the opening remarks, performances by Mrs. Bercero's class and Mrs. Diaz's class on the foundation day theme, a presentation by Mr. Alcober's class on synergy, Mr. Gabon's butterfly performance, a performance by the LNU brass band, the "LNU's Got Talent" show, a faculty personnel show, recognition of the LNU photographer, and closing remarks expressing how the event was fun and brought people together through shared time, effort and talent.
Corporate Serious Games Are Changing The Rules Of Product DevelopmentTom Grant
For software developers, serious games provide new ways to gain insights into customers and make smarter decisions faster. In many respects, serious games complement Agile, Lean, and other process improvements. While serious games have general application in innovation, we are using software development as a starting point for understanding their potential.
This document discusses cloud computing and different types of cloud models. It defines cloud computing as internet-based computing where shared resources, software, and information are provided on-demand over the internet. The document outlines characteristics of cloud computing like elasticity and pay-per-use. It distinguishes between public clouds, which are off-site resources provided by third parties, and private clouds, which emulate public clouds on private networks but require more management. Examples of public and private cloud providers are also given. The presenter's contact information is provided at the end.
As três frases resumem o documento sobre as partes do corpo em espanhol. O documento lista as principais partes da cabeça, pernas e braços em espanhol com seus respectivos desenhos. Os alunos Antonio, Hudson e Matheus fizeram o trabalho para a professora Tamara na disciplina de Espanhol.
Hacking involves gaining unauthorized access to computer systems or networks. Common hacking techniques discussed in the document include DDoS attacks, sniffing, spoofing, phishing, and brute force/dictionary attacks. DDoS attacks aim to make computer resources unavailable by overloading them. Sniffing involves intercepting network traffic, while spoofing manipulates the source of network packets. Phishing tricks users into providing private information through fraudulent messages. Physical security also plays an important role in protecting against unauthorized access. The document provides an overview of these hacking techniques and security risks.
Current trends in enterprise business applications include the emergence of extended enterprises that allow partners and customers access beyond the local area network perimeter. Enterprise applications are also being consolidated into single data centers to reduce costs while still providing universal access on any device from any location. This introduces connectivity bottlenecks over wide area networks as more applications like disaster recovery and IP communication traffic crowd the pipes. Application behaviors can also cause bottlenecks through chatty protocols with many short messages and high reliability protocols that send packets and wait for replies without tuning options. Network optimization can help by reducing protocol round trips, prioritizing packets and traffic shaping, and implementing cross-protocol caching and referencing to improve performance over disparate points that cannot be brought physically closer through added bandwidth
This document introduces two companies, Interim Partners and Brightool, that work together to provide executive interim managers and match talented middle managers to contract and interim positions. It describes the sectors and positions they specialize in and highlights the online dashboard they developed called Connect to help communicate goals and share intelligence throughout assignments. It emphasizes that quality, transparency, integrity and respect for people are core to what they do.
This document summarizes key symbols and facts about the state of Pennsylvania. It lists the state seal, animal, bird, tree, and flower. It also provides the lyrics to Pennsylvania's state song and an interesting fact about the state's nickname, name meaning, and Hershey being known as the Chocolate Capital of the United States.
The document discusses software development practices and conventions, specifically around code quality and organization. It touches on topics like code formatting, complexity, comments, naming, and identifying "broken windows" or weaknesses that could degrade code quality over time if not addressed. The author advocates continuously improving practices by discussing options and making incremental changes.
Apresentação realizada no evento TDC2013 em São Paulo - SP, trilha Management 3.0.
Trabalhar com outras pessoas pode ser emocionante e gratificante ou frustrante e improdutivo, dependendo de quão bem o grupo está alinhado ao longo de várias dimensões. Inevitavelmente, quando as pessoas se reúnem em um grupo há uma variedade de personalidades, crenças e atitudes. O que você faz para conhecer o seu time? É preciso investir muito dinheiro ou há outras soluções criativas? Conheça algumas técnicas de gestão 3.0 para descoberta de forças, valores e motivadores intrínsecos do time.
SCTI 2014 - Dicas para tomadas de decisão seguras em front-endRamon Bispo
O documento apresenta dicas para tomadas de decisão seguras em desenvolvimento front-end. As principais dicas incluem: 1) Definir claramente o propósito do projeto, 2) Considerar o nicho de usuários e evitar excesso de funcionalidades, 3) Otimizar de forma gradual e não prematura.
Apresentação realizada no TDC2012 em São Paulo - SP - Julho/2012. Trilha Management 3.0 http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/tdc/2012/saopaulo/trilha-management#programacao
Trabalhar com times de desenvolvimento de produtos para internet é lidar com um sistema complexo adaptativo.
Você sabe ler e entender os feedbacks que o seu sistema está te dando? Como você faz para reduzir esse feedback loop? Você sabe estimular o seu time a dar feedback?
É comum as pessoas terem uma resposta clara, simples e ERRADA sobre um problema complexo.
O fato é que passamos muito tempo agindo apenas com suposições. Como reduzir o tempo de feedback para agirmos com dados concretos?
O documento descreve a evolução de uma startup desde sua concepção até os processos atuais de desenvolvimento de produto e aprendizado. A startup passou por várias iterações e mudanças de processo para melhor entregar valor aos clientes de forma incremental e aprender continuamente.
This document provides guidance on creating an effective marketing plan for 2009. It outlines common mistakes to avoid, such as disconnecting the plan from overall business strategy or being too ambitious. The marketing planning process involves researching the business, mission/vision, SWOT analysis, objectives, audiences, key messages, strategies, tactics, budget, and implementation. Metrics and periodic reviews are important to track effectiveness and make adjustments.
The document discusses using social media for business growth. It provides an example of a safety harness company that used social media and frameworks like the Customer Value Matrix and Quality Customer Growth Program to identify potential customers in neuroscience and optogenetics and position them on a matrix based on attractiveness and probability of success. This allowed the company to develop a targeted social media strategy to engage with and build relationships with the most valuable prospects.
Organization models for social media
- What is a good organization model for a mid size company, implementing a social media engagement strategy?
- How one person can make a difference in an SMB organization!
Challenge:
How can a “social media campaign” actually be successful if the rest of the company does business as usual? Many social media “strategies” are really just some tactical ideas with little impact to the business success. Consultants get fired and careers stale due to some basic lack of understanding. A company with more than 20 people need to think through the organizational implications.
Objective
This webinar shall give you the foundation and the most important insight to to setup a good organization model to successfully engage with customers, prospects, new customers and partners through social media.
How To Develop Value Propositions, for CIOsWalter Adamson
CIO Business Innovation Series. Paul DiModica, author of the book “Sell Technology: Technology Sales Is a Premeditated Sport”, talks about technology salesmen:
Q: What are the top mistakes people make when selling technology? Well, first of all, most of them come to sell instead of listen. They're not prepared, and they tend to shoot from the hip. Secondly, they don't know what they're selling.
Q: They don't understand their product? No, it's deeper than that. They don't understand the value of what they're selling and, consequently, can't explain its value. And thirdly, they sell technology instead of a solution.
If your IT leadership team is having the same problems, then you are not alone.
Learn how to solve the problem.
How Prepared Are We for Customer 2.0?
By Juliann Grant, Telesian Technology
Customer 2.0 is calling! We have become so enamored with and caught up in the technology of Web 2.0, our PDA's, gadgets, and widgets that keep us connected and alive 24 hours a day to those around the world, that we forget at the core of it all, it must still be all about the customer.
We must not only use the timeliness and power of social media to broadcast our message to customers, but we need to use it to listen in order to learn what our customers are saying to each other and about us. The web have given customers immediate and almost limitless access to information on companies, products, and people, and realize it or not, we may not even be in the conversation! This is truly moving the "traditional" marketing and sales function towards irrelevance. We must realize that Customer 2.0 is embracing the "buying cycle" on their terms and no longer needs to wait on the "sales cycle".
The typical buyer is savvy, knowledgeable, and smart. Customer 2.0 demands that their web experience be fun, interactive, and social. They value professionalism over glitz. They want substance, not flash. They look to their peers to see what they are buying and want to do the same because they trust their experience. They talk to each other and in real time. Your misstep today is not only tomorrow's news, it is today's news as well.
How do we do this in the Automation and Engineering industry? We’re going to find out through with survey to uncover how well we are engaging with Customer 2.0. Do we speak their language? Are we connecting with them on their terms?
In this presentation, we will show how social media and the power of the web can be used to embrace Customer 2.0 in a meaningful, beneficial dialog that will help drive sales. A combination of case studies, customer interviews, surveys, and real social media encounters will be used to illustrate the power of the "new media" in marketing to Customer 2.0.
This document outlines an eight-step guide for small companies to develop consistent and effective marketing communications. The steps include: 1) understanding market context and company capabilities, 2) defining specific objectives, 3) determining an appropriate strategy, 4) developing powerful key messages, 5) creating valuable supporting content, 6) ensuring consistent presentation, 7) planning implementation, and 8) reviewing results and lessons learned. Following this process helps small marketing teams overcome complexity and generate compelling communications within their resource constraints.
Digital Marketing Strategy Proposal 2010Mark Waldo
The document outlines a digital strategy for Commvault's interactive properties with the goals of optimizing sales, acquiring customer information, and retaining existing customers. It discusses balancing tactics for obtaining contact information with providing valuable content and experiences. The strategy involves defining personas, understanding buying cycles, and improving the brand, messaging, and usability of interactive touchpoints. Key steps include evolving personas, finding opportunities in the buying cycle, improving customer insights, and refreshing sites to advance the digital brand through better information architecture and design.
Customer Experience Development - Leadership Class IntroductionSociety3
The document introduces the Social Media Academy leadership class. It provides an overview of the class which takes a cross-functional business approach to teaching social media strategy. The class covers topics like social media assessments, developing social media strategies, integrating social media across different business functions, selecting tools, developing engagement plans, analytics, and consulting. The class is taught online over 14 days and includes exercises, tests, and a final exam to graduate. The goal is to help business professionals understand how to best apply social media across their organizations in a holistic way.
Strategy prototyping leap into the future look aroundmichaeldmaginn
The document describes a new approach to strategic planning called "prototyping alternative futures". It involves:
1) Gathering a small group of knowledgeable stakeholders to discuss potential futures for the organization through asking questions about new products, customers, or ways of delivering value.
2) Developing "prototypes" - tangible but incomplete representations of these potential futures through techniques like sketches, diagrams, or conceptual models.
3) Discussing each prototype to understand how it might operate and be funded in order to gain consensus more efficiently than traditional analytical strategic planning methods. The goal is to tap intuition and creativity to identify new strategic directions for the organization.
An honest look at how digital and social media can be used to create tangible value for companies, customers and consumers.
Authors:
Magan Arthur & Rob Mallens
With inputs from:
Sumathi Venkitaraman,
Head, Marketing at CustomerXPs Software
www.customerxps.com
PPC LIVE #9 - Amy Stamper - How to measure Paid Media in a Post-Cookies WorldAnu Adegbola
Measurement is having what may be the biggest shake-up yet in 2024, with cookie deprecation looming, and AI and signals taking over from traditional attribution.
For anyone running Paid Media, particularly upper funnel Social or Brand campaigns, this might be worrying!
Amy shares practical ways to evolve measurement using 1st party data, with options for brands at both ends of the brand / performance spend spectrum. Plus, what 3rd party tools & new platform options are available to help you understand what impact your spend is having on business goals.
This document provides an overview of strategic considerations for direct mail campaigns. It discusses when to use direct mail as a strategy, components of a direct mail plan such as situation assessments, objectives, tactics and implementation. It also covers strategic elements like creative execution, formats, envelopes, letters, offers and more. The goal is to plan an effective direct mail strategy that achieves measurable objectives.
The document provides an overview of modules for account leadership training, including understanding the client's business, agency, communication planning, and creative briefs. It covers topics like knowing the client, their market, competitors, and developing a communications plan through frameworks like SWOT analysis, Boston Consulting Group matrix, and ROI springboards. The document emphasizes rigor and imagination in developing creative briefs to provide direction while inspiring creativity.
Why And How to Transition into Product Management by Google PMProduct School
Nabil Shahid walks through their journey to Product Management in the world of tech, talking about how to market your skills and how to get into the industry. He also touches on balancing knowledge and personal experience with what's best for a wider user group.
Lecture 10 - B2B Marketing & Digital Customer Relationship Management.pptxFaizanGul6
The document provides an overview of business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategies and tactics for the digital age. It discusses developing buyer personas, identifying marketing channels, and creating and measuring marketing campaigns. Key points include developing a vision and goals, defining the target market and buyer persona through research, identifying appropriate marketing channels like blogs, social media and email, creating content like whitepapers and videos, and measuring performance to improve over time. The document also discusses shifts in the B2B buying process and how to adapt marketing approaches accordingly.
The document discusses the changing role of sales professionals in the printing industry due to technological advances and changes in how customers obtain information. It argues that salespeople must become more consultative and able to provide expertise across multiple media types rather than just print. The next generation of sales professionals will need skills in areas like marketing, data analytics, and financial understanding in order to advise clients on multimedia campaigns and business challenges. They will need to understand clients' industries and finances, continuously learn, and find creative solutions to complex problems.
Juliann Grant of Telesian Technology and Scott Sommer of Jacobs Engineering discuss pre and post-sales strategies that build a bridge between marketing and sales. This presentation was delivered at the 3rd Annual Marketing and Sales Summit in 2008.
New Media Attentio Professional Buzz Monitoring (Tin180 Com)Tin180 VietNam
The document discusses professional social media monitoring and its benefits for businesses. It notes that word of mouth influences many consumer purchase decisions and defines social media as online platforms where people share and comment without an editor. The document recommends that companies monitor social media to understand trends, identify crises early, and measure marketing effectiveness in order to improve strategies and stay competitive. It provides examples of how social media monitoring helped companies understand customer discussions and reactions to products.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
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Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
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https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
2. Tech vendors are asking PM to play an increasingly strategic role. That’s a good thing as long as you’re ready to take on those responsibilities.
3. Agenda How do we know if PM is strategic? What is making PM strategic? What does this mean for me?
4. Agenda How do we know if PM is strategic? What is making PM strategic? What does this mean for me?
5. How do we know if PM is strategic? Who’s my boss? More reporting to CEOs or GMs What’s my job? Greater clarity and specialization Do I have the skills and experiences? Higher bar, emphasis on people and business skills
6. How do we know if PM is strategic? What’s my deliverable? High-value content for many consumers How do you measure my performance? More directly tied to business outcomes What’s my authority? Less ambiguous decision-making power
7. The new PM archetype CEO, GM, or other executive PRODUCTMANAGEMENT PRODUCTMARKETING Outbound Inbound Customer intelligence Market intelligence Roadmap Portfolio Stakeholders Use cases Adoption Social media Etc.
8. Agenda How do we know if PM is strategic? What is making PM strategic? What does this mean for me?
9. New challenges, common responses CHALLENGES Agile We can develop faster, but can we deliver? Social media Customers expect a two-way conversation RESPONSES Understand the market SaaS/cloud Customers see, try, maybe buy, maybe leave Articulate value clearly Business technology We’re dealing with more stakeholders Invest carefully Deliver, deliver, deliver Recession We need to re-think our business, perhaps taking new risks Portfolio What is the value we’re delivering our customers? Innovation Someone needs to shepherd the process from ideation to adoption
10. Agile: the challenge Customers Partners Sales, marketing, and other externally-facing groups Development
11. Agile: PM’s response PMs must juggle the services they provide to the development team with other responsibilities, including the ripple effects of Agile.
12. Social media: the challenge OUTBOUND INBOUND CUSTOMERS VENDOR Whether or not you invest in social media, customers will be talking about you.
13. Social media: PM’s response “Which of the following would motivate you to participate in social activity — or participate more — for work purposes?” (Up to three responses accepted) Using social media in this fashion is a new discipline (PLOT) that doesn’t come for free. Source: Forrester’s North American and European B2B Social Technographics Online Survey, Q1 2010 Base: 793 BT decision makers at companies with 100 or more employees
14. SaaS/cloud: the challenge BEFORE: ON PREMISE AFTER: ON DEMAND PRODUCT PRICING CUSTOMERS PARTNERS RELEASES MARKETING What’s the same?What’s different? ETC. ETC. ETC.
15. SaaS/cloud: PM’s response Define releases as the interval between when you can deliver new value, and the customer is ready to receive it.
16. Innovation: the challenge CONCEIVE TEST BUILD DELIVER ADOPT ASSESS IDEAS VALUE At each stage, vendors must make critical decisions, based on both business and technical criteria …And are learning to appreciate these stages. Tech vendors have stressed these stages…
18. Business technology: the challenge Frequency of use, discussion forums/communities as sources of ERP advice, by stage Source: B2B North American and European B2B Social Technographics Online Survey, Q4 2008
20. Portfolio: the challenge OUR PORTFOLIO CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS Finance Manage resources efficiently ConfigurationsIntegrations AdoptionMarketingSales Support Human resources Adapt to marketplace changes Supply chain management Decrease corporate risk Dashboards and reporting Portfolios are a strategic bet that you will provide valuable assistance in addressing business problems. Auditing?
21. Portfolio: PM’s response Make the portfolio the measure of products. Enforce product alignment with the portfolio.
22. Agenda How do we know if PM is strategic? What is making PM strategic? What does this mean for me?
23. Define strategic PM Do a brutally frank assessment of your department EX: In an Agile organization, how can we juggle both tactical and strategic questions? Create specializations EX: Portfolio manager, product manager, product owner Insist on decision-making power EX: No project goes forward unless a PM can explain how it meets the following criteria… Insist on clear boundaries EX: If we’re going to focus more on requirements, or support social media, someone else needs to shoulder sales enablement more
24. Build credibility and leverage Determine what matters to executive management EX: Aligning company, portfolio, product goals Become the guardian of company performance metrics EX: Customer satisfaction, post-launch readiness Build a repository of useful customer and market intelligence EX: Personas, user stories, solutions architectures Propose a new innovation process EX: Rapid market testing and adjustment at each phase
25. Balance authority and accountability Pick reasonable objectives with real business outcomes EX: Shorten sales cycle Make them shared objectives EX: Shared responsibility of PM, Sales, Marketing Measure, measure, measure EX: Frequency of sales bottlenecks Market, market, market EX: Make sales training less about products, more about successful implementations
26. Try some bigger changes Propose field certification EX: Sales training ends with a presentation… Abolish the idea of customer EX: Embrace and evangelize user stories Replace the words “product” and “service” with “value” EX: Shift from product management to solutions or portfolio management Throw out the old concepts of release and launch EX: Our measure of launch is a threshold of value, not just something new
27. Thank you Name +1 650.581.3846 tgrant@forrester.com www.forrester.com Blogs.forrester.com/tom_grant Blogs.forrester.com/product_management @TomGrantForr