Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sam Lightowler , Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stepped in to share her experience. In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To help you find the right match we collected the best UX research consultancies you can work with. . Our diverse team consists of 60 dedicated UX designers and UX research consultants with diverse backgrounds, such as sociology, psychology, or human-computer interactions. Conversion Strategy & Testing. They mainly focus on.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. He is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. Well, it turns out that in the cosmetics business product managers at some of the smaller firms are in the process of changing how things are done. billion by 2023, up from US$532.43 The Challenge Ahead For Cosmetic Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. They merge the mentality of a boutique agency with a marketing agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. Their expert project management is something they’re proud of, no wonder their motto is “on-time and on-budget”.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. They merge the mentality of a boutique agency with a marketing agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. Their expert project management is something they’re proud of, no wonder their motto is “on-time and on-budget”.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. He is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. He is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services. But since the term ‘product consulting’ could mean very different things, I got a variety of leads with various needs. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yet amidst the usual shuffling and strategic planning for the new year, I’ve seen a new trend emerge: companies are combining their Customer Success Management (value/adoption) and Account Management (renewal/expansion) roles. Our Take So—should Customer Success and Account Management be combined? Personally, I’m torn.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 13, 2023

For example, AI-powered voice assistants can help patients schedule appointments, manage their medications, and even monitor their symptoms. Should you want to improve the design and performance of your digital product, book a consultation with us. Military: to improve communication and efficiency.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

When I realized that consulting isn’t a one-time gig for me and that it’s what I want to do moving forward (it was a few months after I started doing it, before the CPO Bootcamp was even created) I immediately understood that I need to up my game in order to build a sustainable business. Do they still want to try alone? It’s pivot time.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 10, 2023

We kick off 2023 with an excited update! Since May, we have expanded our offerings through the acquisitions of software engineering company Tweag ; product development firm Promptworks ; and Atlassian consulting firms Atlas Authority and Twybee. . Also joining Modus will be 40 senior engineers, designers, and project managers. .

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

I’m sure you know this quote and see it a lot in product management. Give you the theory but deal with reality and the real challenges that come with it in everything we do — our courses, the CPO Bootcamp , strategic consulting , and this blog. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

For SaaS companies in 2023, it simply isn’t possible for Customer Success Manager (CSM) headcount to keep pace with business growth. That being said, let’s take a deep dive into one of the most effective strategies to efficiently scale Customer Success: digital customer education. What’s Digital Customer Education?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Session Information Title: It’s an AI product manager’s job to help an organization succeed with Predictive Machine Learning Date: March 16th, 2023 Register: [link] The workshop provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create AI innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. This is what I tell the founders that consult with me  — that to really solve the problem that they are looking to solve, a tool is not enough. But in product management that is never true.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. Level 1: Painting Within the Lines In my first official product role I joined Imperva, then still a relatively young company with ~100 employees, as the product manager of their database security product. Where are you now? Are you up for the challenge?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Review Your Challenges This reflection exercise can help you assess the challenges that stood in the way of success, how those challenges were overcome, and what strategies you may need to apply for similar obstacles you are likely to face in the new year. This post was updated on November 19, 2023.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 13, 2023

How product managers can prepare for a product leadership role Today we are talking about how you can prepare for and find a senior product leadership role, and we’ll be addressing this both for current senior leaders as well as for product managers. 21:42] What’s your outlook on the 2023 job market?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine that a major prospect for our investment banking application needs a custom connector for their legacy stock market analysis app: their trading strategy team uses an old database with obsolete formats for trade type, date/time, currency symbol, etc.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped. 

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While I was writing this article, one of my consulting clients called me to talk about this dilemma exactly: as their product is getting more mature and allows more functionality, their UX which was something they were super proud of up until now is getting slightly more complex. In my case, it worked and I got the budget increase.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 18, 2023

41% of product managers rated their happiness with their current product planning process a three out of five in Product Plan’s 2022 Annual Product Manager’s Survey. Even worse, 29% of product managers said they were either unhappy or very unhappy with their product planning process. Don’t agonize over a beautiful presentation.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You can employ manageable yet powerful approaches to drive your revenue growth. Discounts Many companies use discounts as part of their acquisition strategy. How and who should take care of the pricing strategy? “To Tracking what changes competitors make to re-evaluate your strategy is another low-hanging fruit.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS!

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. We’ve helped provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  In scope means that they own the decision/action, but might consult others.  Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.     Strategy and escalations and Board slides can wait a half hour.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But what if customer success and customer education are actually part of the same revenue-building strategy? Without informed and inspired customers, your revenue efforts are just filling a leaky bucket, and you’re hiring expensive customer success managers (CSMs) to hold the mops.

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Product Talk

APRIL 12, 2023

A Consulting Company That Contributes to Revenue Generation and Cost Reduction for Clients Teresa Torres: Okay, let’s look at our next one. We are a software consulting company, so we have internal service offerings as well as contributing to both revenue generation and cost reduction for our clients.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The product team at Going includes product management, product design, UX research, and a flight experts team. where he oversees the development of internally developed applications to help execute construction projects and occasionally acts as an additional senior product manager. He’s also continued to work with Hope as his coach.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2024

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash 2023 was a rough year on multiple fronts. You can consult with your colleagues or even external advisors to find the best path forward. Realizing it is one thing, and a more important thing is to accept it as it is and then act to change it while you can. Here is a quick guide to get you going.

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