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Discussion on Global Product Management
Brian Foster, SVP Product Management, McAfee
18 December 2010
“MARKET TRANSITIONS WAIT FOR NO ONE”
Qoute: John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
. . . MY JOB DESCRIPTION
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Put the right leaders in place to make the organization successful
Ensure the most strategic technologies are adequately funded
Identify strategic opportunities in the market place and within the technical
landscape
Ensure the organization follows a disciplined process that will result in world
class products
WHAT IS A PM’S JOB?
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To deliver measurable business results through
product solutions that meet both market needs and
company goals.
WHERE DOES PM FIT IN?• Business Owner
• Owns viability and profitability
• Drive build vs. buy
• Domain Experts
• Messenger of the market
• Knows the questions to ask
• Requirements Manager
• Responsible to build the right product
• Leader
• Public head for the team
• Drives decisions and progress
• Measures results
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OWNS THE BUSINESS1. Generate positive press coverage
2. Increase net promoters in our customer
base
3. Market Share
2006(A)
2007(B)
2008(C)
45% 41% 40%
2006(A)
2007(B)
2008(C)
5% 4% 5%
2006(A)
2007(B)
2008(C)
23% 23% 23%
2006(A)
2007(B)
2008(C)
27% 32% 32%
% Truly Loyal
% Trapped% High Risk
% Accessible
Symantec206m24%
Trend Micro106m13%
Rising67m8%
McAfee61m7%
Check Point57m7%
Kaspersky Lab China - JV
37m4%
Ahnlab32m4%
Websense28m3%
Sophos22m3%
Microsoft19m2%
Kaspersky18m2%
Other194m23%
Marketshare Desktop 2008 (Asia)(source IDC)
Speed of response, SE involvement and Keeping informed are the top areas requiring
attention. Although the “tone of voice” is rated best, the top two (excellent + very good)
on this aspect could be higher
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Support from Product Management
Q12 - How would you rate Product Management in terms of … : (n = 172)
Speed of response
Quality of response
Tone of voice
Keeping informed
Involving SE
5%
6%
13%
3%
3%
28%
31%
45%
21%
18%
31%
41%
29%
33%
27%
27%
16%
10%
31%
38%
8%
6%
2%
12%
13%
Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
Four big white spacesUTM, IAM, SIEM / SEM, VPN
No market with > 25% shareOnly 2 markets with > 20% share (AV, IPS)
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BE A DOMAIN EXPERTThreat Environment
Consumerization of IT
Virtualization
Heads in the Cloud
Security Optimization
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BUILDING THE RIGHT PRODUCT
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• Displacement
• Consolidate
• New Markets
• New Products
• Up sells
• Cross sells
• Customer Satisfaction
• Net Promotors
Make Existing
Customers Delighted
Sell More to Existing Customers
Get New Customers in Existing Markets
Security White Space
. . . NETWORK
Which side of the T1 do you sit on?
Blurring boundary between endpoint & systems
The battle for signalling!!
New Virtual Layer2
system . . .
Disappearance of file system
Virtual Desktop
Web profile is more important than User Profile
HTML5 & Javascript
SSD/Processors with security embedded
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE FILE SYSTEM
iphone (ipad), android and microsoft app-v
an iphone app has no concept of a global file
system. Search is embedded in the app.
App-v apps live in their containers, Citrix
introduced encryption for these containers
. . . HTML 5 & JAVA SCRIPT
Have you watched clicker.tv?
The web browser is more powerful than operating systems were in the 90s
javascript is the new assembly language. Tens of thousands of chrome extensions. Clicker.tv replaces
native app boxee
That + NaCl is a very different app model
KEY MACRO TRENDS
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Distributed Co-Creation
Collaboration at Scale
Growing Internet of Things
Analytics: Plenty of Data to Review
Everything or anything as a service
Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
Sources include McKesson
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“the home-field advantage is much greater in cricket than any other sport”
TIME TO INNOVATE