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How can I start making a change in my organization to influence the roadmap based on consumer insights?

I am at a company where Product builds the roadmap without many insights from Marketing or research.
Krithika Muthukumar
Thrive Capital Executive in Residence, Marketing6y
The only advice I can share is that customer insights (when shared in a clear and actionable way) are very hard to ignore. Survey users, talk to prospects, and bring cust...
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Mary Jane Han
Roofstock Former Product Marketing Director5y
I’d first ask what’s driving this – does the company/leadership not believe in customer insights, is there a lack of prioritization to do this or is it simply inertia of ...
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Vishal Naik
Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini4y
An Engineering leader at a previous company described this to me as a tripod--decisions made based on the intersection of PM, Eng and PMM. Here PMM is representing the cu...
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Jack Wei
Sendbird fmr Head of Marketing | Formerly SmartRecruiters, Mixpanel, Deloitte, Beardwood&Co3y
If your product team ignores product marketing, that can be fixed through better exec alignment, relationship building and proving out collaboration successes in smaller,...
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Dobrin Grancharov
Quantive Product Marketing Manager6y
On top of everything that @Krithika Muthukumar , @Dan Laufer and @Lauren Culbertson have already mentioned, one actionable and practical approach would be to introduce a ...
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Lauren Culbertson
LoopVOC Co-founder & CEO6y
Data is power! Feedback is everywhere, and as product marketers we can harness that voice of the customer data to influence product roadmap. Product Managers have to bala...
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Willem Maas
Growth Velocity President | Formerly Vigilent, USGBC, FICO, Macromedia/Adobe3y
@Vishal Naik I agree! In a former life as a B2B product manager, I struggled to get useful input on the needs of new buyers. Most of my time and attention was spent enhan...
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Dan Laufer
Nextdoor fmr Head of Growth and Product Marketing6y
That can be very tough. Similar to another answer I wrote, I think a lot of this is interpersonal which makes specific feedback tough without more context. A few ideas to...
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