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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Based on our experience of working with numerous companies operating in India across different industries, we find that a simple yet powerful four-step framework helps companies effectively prioritize markets in the country: Step 1: Measure risk-adjusted opportunity. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Brocade’s Net Promoter Score went from 50 (already a best in class score) to 62 (one of the highest B2B scores on record) within 18 months. The metrics also changed. The results? Invest in the end-to-end experience. The results?

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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7 Top Ways to Grow Revenue

LSA Global

In fact, according to the Product Development Institute, new products and services account for more than 25 percent of total revenue and profits across industries, and companies that focus on creating new offerings while maintaining core competencies across functions grow faster than their peers.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Based on our research , inspired employees are three times more productive than dissatisfied employees, but they are rare. Consider the case of one B2B supplier that wanted to figure out what made some salespeople top performers. Energy, too, is difficult to come by. For most organizations, only one out of eight employees is inspired.