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How do you assess organizational readiness ahead of a product launch?

Too often product marketing is seen as a collateral producing engine. But with substantial new launches, we are sometimes the only ones integrating needs, insights, and potential operational bottlenecks across all stakeholders, internal or external. I’m curious both of how you think of org readiness and how you incorporate this dimension into your launch motion.
Stephen Baloglu
Adobe Director of Product Marketing4y
Organization readiness can be measured at different altitudes…e.g. Super high level and broad: does the business have the right strategy to win? vs. tactical: are we set ...
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Eve Alexander
Seismic SVP, Corporate & Product Marketing5y
One thing that has been wonderful at Seismic is we have someone on the product marketing team that is in a program management role and who is responsible for driving and ...
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Chase Wilson
Figma Director, AI & Developer Marketing | Formerly Atlassian4y
Great question! For the Jira Work Management launch I was actually the first team hire. This was really important for the dynamic of our team and we eshewed the common "t...
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Andrew Forbes
Figma Director, Product Marketing4y
This is an awesome question. The way we've gotten ahead of it when I was at Zendesk - which has worked well - is by creating an "Operations Council" who is responsible ...
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Holly Watson
Oracle Product Marketing, Product Launch, GTM, ex-AWS | Formerly Amazon Web Services, Sprinklr8mo
I'll assume that the organization's leadership is aligned to the product roadmap (in general) when answering this question. Organizational readiness can have several fact...
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I start with the objectives of the launch and work from there. I look for advantages that can be leveraged and obstacles that need to be removed. I assign functional area...
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