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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
Sure. While I cannot share internal documents necessarily, I can share a few elements that I think make up good messaging frameworks. Market and competitive context Prod...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
I am a believer that your messaging/positioning has to be consistent with how differentiated your product really is. Customers will quickly figure out what is marketing f...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We typically prepare and validate a strong Messaging and Positioning Framework (MPF) document first. Our template typically includes things like the market context, objec...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We try to validate our messaging and positioning prior to finalizing them. We try to obtain feedback from the sales team (ultimately they will use this messaging/position...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We do - however, important to bake in some flexibility/adaptibility as each product/capability/solution tends to have it's own nuances/objectives. Having said that, gener...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
Great question and one that took me sometime to figure out as well when i was new to product marketing few years ago! We have used positioning to get clear on who the pr...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
Inward focus vs. customer centricity Marketing jargon vs. simplicity silo-ed message vs. integrated messaging across our portfolio Very often - it's easy to get caught ...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
Great question! We faced a similar challenge a few years ago for one of our suite of solutions. It may boil down to how critical each of those three segments are to your ...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We collect and incorporate the voice of the customer in a few different ways: First - the sales team tends to be a great proxy as they are on the front lines and can prov...
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Circana Chief Strategy Officer | Formerly Microsoft, SAP, McKinsey • 4y
We try our best not to get too caught up or carried away with our great product features! Ultimately - it's about the value we deliver to customers and so we try to infus...
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