Product Management & Strategy
A community for Product Teams to navigate business challenges together
Discussion List
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Where does the training and support of Partners live?Good afternoon! Due to the growth of partner selling and solution outsourcing, one topic that seems to come up often recently is how companies can best equip their partners. Does anyone have any r… -
Market research: can you help me find a comparable use case for an open source Knowledge Base?Hi all, I am doing some market research for content strategy and am trying to find a comparable use case to my own. I am looking for examples of SaaS companies that offer both open source and enterpr… -
What are your views on what it takes to create winning teams?A couple of weeks ago, I held a session with a group of investors where we discussed the topic of winning teams. Some of the building blocks we looked at included: culture and values, experience, rel… -
Tis the season for predictionsThe beginning of the year is a time when many pundits, analysts and gad abouts are making predictions for the coming year. What predictions do you see as the most compelling? How do you act on these … -
What do product management services for ISVs (cloud-based/SaaS) cover?Hello members! My company (CSS Corp) has been known as a support services provider but we want to expand our identity to include product management services as well. In that regard, I wanted to know … -
What is preventing your organization from taking advantage of a pricing strategy rooted in value?Many organizations are failing to optimize their customer engagement and are leaving money on the table because they have been unable to implement value-based methodologies. Without having a clear un…
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In addition to Education Services offers going all virtual, what other actions are you taking?As all in-person training delivery has halted, we've certainly shifted to virtual instructor-led classes and we're focusing on promoting our online University. What other actions are you taking at t… -
What's the ROI of your Platform Strategy?The B2B tech community is investing heavily in platform strategies, recognizing the growth multiplier realized by those that have mastered it. Wanted to this community to know that @Anne McClelland,… -
What are the challenges and strategies for converting your customer base to XaaS?Migrating your existing customer licenses to XaaS can be challenging enough. Migrating their deployment to the cloud adds to the challenge. All sorts of questions emerge including how to handle objec…
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How have you optimized cross-org councils (product, process, experience, etc.)?In the age where cross-organization participation is key, we often lean on councils to guide and prioritize strategic work: new products, process and flow optimization, customer and employee experien… -
State of the Handshake between Service Portfolio Management & Technology Product ManagementAre your product management and services product & Portfolio management teams collaborating well or poorly when it comes to designing recurring revenue solutions for awesome customer experience a…
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What does a good 'offer' look like to bring to life the MS Offer ContinuumHi Folks, We are on the MS transformation journey and have adopted the TSIA MS Offer Continuum. Being a traditional Product-led organisation we are grappling with what a good offer looks like, say f… -
Prepaid or Deferred?Outcome services. Do you predominantly sell prepaid or deferred engagements? Do you give customers the choice or provide incentives/disincentives? -
Regional pricingWhen you're establishing regional price points for bundled outcome-based annuity services, do you typically link the price to foreign exchange rates or regional Consulting/Edu rates?
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How does your Education Services business model work with other Service lines?The Education business is always a little different in that it can serve different audiences (internal, customers, hybrid). How is your Education business aligned to other Services (are you pure P&a… -
Product Offers & Pricing in a Post Covid-19 WorldDo you have a question for me related to the webinar topic below? Please ask your questions here Any question we miss during the webinar we will be addressing here in the community following the liv…
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Services "Brand" within the Organization (Q Targeted for non-pure-play Services orgs)Our organization has a 150+ year manufacturing history. We are viewed as a great "engineering" company. We do also have a strong track record in Services (mostly equipment-related start-up,… -
Transforming from "Break/Fix" to "Recurring Maintenance Contract" in a More "Traditional" Mfg. Org?This is very much related to the other question I asked recently... A vast majority of the revenue we generate from 1/2 of our Services business is tied to an on-asset based service model -- it's &qu…
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What offer and pricing actions have you taken in response to the COVID-19 crisis?Members have been asking this about offers and pricing updates, changes and market withdrawals during this time. The quick poll is designed to capture these trends. Feel free to check it out. https:/…
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What is the expected post COVID-19 business state for changes made to offers and pricing?Hi Everyone, A crystal ball would be helpful to business planning, right? Without one we can combine all our data and insights to form a collective view of where thing are headed in tech, for exampl…