{"id":6702,"date":"2020-03-04T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2023-11-13T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:11:46","slug":"latecomer-outflanks-incumbent-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/latecomer-outflanks-incumbent-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Latecomer Outflanks Incumbent Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our latest success story:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Latecomer Outflanks Incumbent Products<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>&#8220;AHA&#8221; moment gives the winning edge to new SAAS product<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtm360.com\/customers.php#c126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Success Story\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gtm360.com\/images\/Image_SaaS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>A midsized IT company wanted to develop a new Configure-Price-Quote product and engaged us to provide specifications for its Minimum Viable Product version. CPQ is a category of software used to support the configuration, pricing and quotation generation activities that accompany solution and negotiated selling. Since the product category was well established, we couldn&#8217;t get away with an MVP that had a fraction of the feature set of the incumbent products. At the same time, it was not feasible to build out a fully fledged CPQ product in a realistic timeframe. The only way out of this classic product management conundrum was to outflank the existing products. We did that by using an &#8220;AHA&#8221; moment in our product. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtm360.com\/customers#c126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED READING:<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/why-do-companies-outsource-product-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why Do Companies Outsource Product Management?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/outflanking-incumbent-products-with-aha-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Outflanking Incumbent Products With AHA Moments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our latest success story: Latecomer Outflanks Incumbent Products &#8220;AHA&#8221; moment gives the winning edge to new SAAS product A midsized IT company wanted to develop a new Configure-Price-Quote product and engaged us to provide specifications for its Minimum Viable Product version. CPQ is a category of software used to support the configuration, pricing and &#8230; <a title=\"Latecomer Outflanks Incumbent Products\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/latecomer-outflanks-incumbent-products\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Latecomer Outflanks Incumbent Products\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b1-integrated-marketing","category-it-marketing","category-mandatory-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11431,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/11431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm360.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}