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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

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Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. Read more… ?? Read more… ??

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8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 04/12/2017.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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7 Steps To Driving A Culture Of Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Every company has different strengths and goals, yet each can publish internally their innovation canvas of technology, leadership, people, structure, rewards, and metrics that sets them apart. You only get what you measure.

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8 Disciplines for Transforming Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Manage the business with metrics and goals. Business objectives need to be quantified and measured to assess progress and positioning against competition. Metrics drive a results-oriented culture that leads to continuous quality improvements, required pivots, and recognition of success.

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6 Keys to Marketing Customer Experience vs Products

Startup Professionals Musings

One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Satisfied but unenthusiastic customers who can be easily wooed by the competition. The inverse case is that you can lose you competitive lead very quickly by focusing on the wrong things. So how do you measure customer loyalty and relationships? Detractors.

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Members Hire Associations, Members Fire Associations

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At year end 2017, Association Executives would find it useful to see the world as their members do and understand what help they need to make progress in their Industry or Profession. Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships.

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