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Pragmatic Institute Customer Fact

Wolters Kluwer has realized a 50-74% improvement in product sales since taking Pragmatic Institute training.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Satisfaction Rating

Larry Lumsden, a Vice President of Products at TECSYS, would be very likely to recommend Pragmatic Institute for this reason:

I’ve experienced the tremendous benefits it can bring when everyone in a Product Management organization receives the Pragmatic training.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Fact

ADP realized a 25-49% reduction in time to market since taking Pragmatic Institute training.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

[After Pragmatic Institute’s training,] we are working much more efficiently with our R&D organization. We have far fewer meetings on requirements to explain what we are looking for.

Kevin Shaw, Director of Product, ADP, Inc.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic has given my team a common set of work tasks, a benchmark for activity. We can all work at the same level and deliver more value to the business -consistently.

Kevin Shaw, Director of Product, ADP, Inc.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Fact

Improved Understanding of Market Problems

An S&P 500 financial services company has realized a 50-74% improvement in their understanding of the market and its relevant problems since taking Pragmatic Institute training.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Statistic

61% of surveyed Financial Services organizations took training courses with Pragmatic Institute to increase their strategic focus.

61%

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

The concept of focusing on clear market problems is easy to describe and get buy-in on from product management and sales. This has made it easier to craft our messaging and get buy-in on that as well.

John Wolf, Marketing Professional, Mediware Information Systems

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

I now have a game plan for product development that I didn’t have before. I am looking forward to executing on this strategy in the not-too-distant future.

Kevin Wilkins, Product Manager, Optum 360

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

We have been able to align our products to customer needs in a much more focused manner. This allows us to shorten our design cycles and deliver products that are purposeful.

Product Manager, Large Enterprise Electronics Company

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

The Foundations and Focus courses helped me more clearly understand my role as a product manager and provided practical tools to better understand and prioritize customer value.

Caleb Smith, Product Manager, IdeaClimber Consulting

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training taught me to focus my efforts on what matters most and to delegate non-product-management functions to their respective areas.

Eduardo Rodriguez, Product Marketing Manager, Globenet Cabos Submarinos

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Taking Pragmatic Institute training has allowed me to promote fact-driven decisions.

Marcos Rincon, Product Manager, RouteOne LLC

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

We put a new launch team procedure in place that helped all areas of the business understand our launch goals. We also made sure that all departments knew what their responsibilities were. Sounds simple, but the best ideas often are.

Chris Purcell, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Epicor Software Corporation

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute has enabled me to help my team and our organization agree upon a common language for planning and launching products into the market.

Toby Paul, Product Marketing Manager, Interop Technologies

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training has taught me to listen more to our customers’ problems rather than trying to provide an immediate solution to them at that instant.

Ritesh Pai, Senior Product Manager, PubMatic

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training has helped me make decisions based more on data rather than on anecdotal requests.

Ritesh Pai, Senior Product Manager, PubMatic

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

I definitely became a more strategic product manager. I’m more adept at identifying challenges accurately and being deliberate about turning insights into action. Taking the training led to me becoming more proficient at decision making.

Jacqueline Nunley, Director of Strategy, Duetto Research

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic training increased my understanding of the market and its problems and how to gain executive support for our product efforts.

Jacqueline Nunley, Director of Strategy, Duetto Research

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

I learned that nothing good ever happens in the office. You have to get out and talk, not only to your customers but to the market as well.

Meghan Nesta, Product Manager, Aweber

Pragmatic Institute Customer Satisfaction Rating

Dave Nash, a Product Manager at Compliance Science, would be very likely to recommend Pragmatic Institute for this reason:

I thought it was the best educational training I ever attended. I love the format.

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Our newest product release was developed primarily using the Pragmatic Institute Framework. Our organization had never seen the demand we’ve had for this product on any other product release.

Joseph Mancini, Product Manager, United Electric Controls

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training taught me to start with the problems, understand the market size and where we should be pointing, rather than just jumping around all over.

Sam Kuhner, Head of Commercial Strategy, Informa

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training has ensured that we stay laser focused on customer problems. We only build solutions to the problems that are urgent, pervasive, and which our customers are willing to pay for.

Business Director, Fortune 500 Aerospace & Defense Company

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

I now understand how to do a better job. I can lead an entire team with confidence because of the training I received.

Sarah Hughes, Product Manager, CareCloud

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training collects common-sense elements in a concise framework that are repeatable and applicable to many types of product development and launches. It gave us a language with which to speak to our highly engineering-centric leadership team.

Jonathan Heath, Product Marketing Manager, Synapse Wireless

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

It takes time to effect change in an organization that’s not familiar with product management. What we learned has greatly improved our ability as consultants to educate our organization and begin the upward climb toward positive change.

Jennifer Dobberfuhl Quinlan, Consultant, Brigham Young University

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

The Price class was really helpful in understanding how price and value are connected and where it’s appropriate to charge more money to capture value. Application of this principle, coupled with competitive intel, helped me double the revenue in one of our underperforming products less than 6 months after rolling out new pricing/messaging/positioning to the sales team.

Brian Diaz, Director of Product, Wolters Kluwer nv

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training provided a framework for breaking down the complexity of managing a product suite. It also provided a common language that helped our leadership team understand what product management currently does and what they should be doing to drive towards revenue goals.

Brian Diaz, Director of Product, Wolters Kluwer nv

Pragmatic Institute Customer Testimonial

Pragmatic Institute training gave me a solid footing in approaching product development, specifically, how to bring an entire new product line up from the ground.

Paul DellaVilla, Product Marketing Manager, Onset Computer Corp




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