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how do you think about measuring business impact when your products aren't directly monetized?

Mani Fazeli
Shopify Director of Product3y
Products must have some connection back to profitability, helping to either increase income or reduce costs. You otherwise wouldn't want to make an investment unless you'...
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Tasha Alfano
Twilio Staff Product Manager, SDKs and Libraries4y
I’ve worked with developer focused tooling for almost 7 years so I know exactly what you mean here. On almost every new feature or product our teams put into motion, we h...
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D Matthew Landry
Cisco VP Product Management, Cisco Wireless6mo
When monetization isn’t direct, you shift into “driver metrics” that link to business value: adoption rates, reliability, customer (whether internal or external) satisfac...
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Becky Trevino
Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell3y
When working with products that are not monetized, it is actually more critical to measure business impact to show the value of your work. Why? Often products that are no...
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Preethy Vaidyanathan
Matterport VP of Product2y
There may be a number of reasons why your product does not involve monetization. Whatever the reason maybe, it is still important to have a definition for ‘success’. For ...
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Trisha Price
Pendo Chief Product Officer1y
This depends on where the product is in its lifecycle, but in general, product usage (growth of number of users, breadth of features used, and frequency of usage) are gre...
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Deepak Mukunthu
Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform6mo
When a product isn’t directly monetized, business impact should be measured through proxy metrics that tie user value to strategic or financial outcomes.Start by asking: ...
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