As we continue our poll series to understand the priorities and challenges that product executives face, I wanted to share the results from the fourth poll. This poll was focused on portfolio management and the challenges faced. There were again over 200 responses representing a solid cross-section of product management, sales, marketing and development roles across all types of industries and geographies.

The question was: What are your biggest product portfolio management challenges?

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As we continue our poll series to understand the priorities and challenges that product executives face, I wanted to share the results from the third poll. Like our first two polls, this poll was also focused on the ideation phase and the challenges faced. There were again over 200 responses representing a solid cross-section of product management, sales, marketing and development roles across all types of industries and geographies.

The question was: What is your biggest challenge in the capture and management of product ideas

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As we continue our poll series to understand the priorities and challenges that product executives face (and yes, I am still obsessed with polling data as we draw closer to election season), I wanted to share the results from the second poll – like the first poll there were over 200 responses and represented a pretty solid cross-section of product management, marketing and development roles across all types of industries and geographies.

Here are the results: About 41 percent of total respondents, and 45 percent of large organizations, said less than 50 percent of product ideas come from customers, partners and suppliers.

Being responsible for Accept's Product Marketing function, I am continually trying to understand what product executives and brand owners are doing to bring those profitable products to market and what's keeping them up at night. A few weeks ago we kicked off a series of online polls to understand these priorities and challenges that product executives face. Since its mid-term political season and I'm currently obsessed with polling data, I wanted to share the results from the first poll - which are very insightful. It's worth noting that the poll had over 200 responses and represented a pretty solid cross-section of product management, marketing and development roles across all types of industries and geographies.

Here is the first poll question and the results:

An awesome topic, worthy of a webinar.
Just a reminder that tomorrow we host the final webinar in our Transparency series, featuring Tom Grant [@TomGrantForr], Sr. Research Analyst at Forrester Research.