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The Product Manager / Marketer's Guide to Competitive Intelligence 

Cipher

As a Product Manager (PM) or Product Marketing Manager (PMM), you’re trying to keep a number of plates spinning simultaneously. You have to manage your product(s) and their positioning, you have to monitor the changing needs of your customers, and you have to help bring new products to market.

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Should Product Marketing Managers Do Competitive Intelligence?

Cipher

Competitive Intelligence sounds sexy. It’s strategic. Or it can be. It’s weighty. Huge books are written about it. It’s valuable. Careers are made on it.

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

CIO

But for a select few, the deeper challenges of departmental technologies being funded, procured, and managed without IT involvement are the missed opportunities to better engage and fulfill departmental technology needs. Following are seven steps to guide this transformation for competitive advantage.

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How to Effectively Manage Competitive Intelligence Consulting Vendors

Cipher

No matter how sophisticated your market and competitive intelligence (M/CI) function is, it often makes sense to work with a third-party vendor.

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The 7 Greatest Challenges in Market and Competitive Intelligence

Cipher

Market and competitive intelligence (M/CI) is an essential component of successful organizations. There’s a network of stakeholders to manage, an unfathomable amount of data, and sometimes, a lack of clarity across the organization. But it’s a very complex field.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. For CIOs who may need to customize their cloud cost information streams or manage a complex cloud estate, do-it-yourself cloud cost management may be the way to go. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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The steep cost of a poor data management strategy

CIO

Such is the case with a data management strategy. That gap is becoming increasingly apparent because of artificial intelligence’s (AI) dependence on effective data management. For many organizations, the real challenge is quantifying the ROI benefits of data management in terms of dollars and cents. The second best time is now.”