Innovatemap

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we wrap up 2023 (see what we did there), let’s give credit to the products, podcasts and people who inspired us at work, home and everywhere in between. From insights keeping us informed on product trends to friendly competition around the Village Table, here’s a list of a few favorites from our team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technical writer I hired was quite experienced and had a background in marketing. When we reviewed the product, she started asking me questions that I didn’t have a ready answer for. Great marketing people can’t always market well either. The API was well-defined. Turned out I was wrong. Guess what? Talk to us.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Our guide introduces 23 must-reads, from timeless classics to hot-off-the-press publications that are creating waves in the market. Launch: The Roadmap to Product Management Success is a guide on how to carry out successful product launches.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I need some benchmarks What is good retention What is a good activation rate (and how to determine your activation metric ) What is a good payback period What is good monthly churn How to measure cohort retention What is a good growth rate 9.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They also provide expertise in brand naming, go-to-market strategies, and campaign development. 3 – Masterly Masterly is a US-based full-service agency offering a full spectrum of digital design services, from brand strategy to product design. All aiming at delivering outstanding digital solutions.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process. Throughout this post, we’ll discuss: What a product management process is. The 8 stages of a product management process to smash your goals in 2023 and further. What is a product management process? Is there a market demand?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

Despite some significant challenges, 2024 is the year of product It’s official, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of product. We asked what people considered their product organization’s biggest challenge, and 38% of organizations identified economic uncertainty as the most significant challenge.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. Growth acceleration: how to generate a higher lead in the market Accessing a wider market Directly accessing product and intellectual property Diversify capabilities for corporate fit Includes regulatory and geographic factors When acquiring: is this a good enough match?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The reason we didn’t see them in any of our POCs was because they were targeting a different market segment. It impacted everything from the depth of the underlying technology to the product itself, the go-to-market strategy, and the entire business model. It wasn’t just a random selection. In most cases, it’s the latter.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Product managers have to navigate increasingly complex ethical considerations related to issues like data privacy or AI bias. Agile and Lean methodologies continue to hold sway in SaaS product management. Their influence is potentially going to grow as companies need to adapt to market shifts faster and manage resources efficiently.

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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. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From its humble beginnings as a DVD rental service to its current status as a global streaming powerhouse, Netflix’s evolution has been marked by relentless innovation and strategic adaptation to changing market dynamics. The company also leveraged data analytics to personalize recommendations and improve the user experience.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

If you have mediocre marketing and sales people, it wouldn’t work. If you have good marketing and sales people, they will be able to sell the product to some extent based on their network and talent. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Will 2024 be better or worse than 2023? You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. For how long? No one knows.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Part of our mission at ProductPlan is to support the product community with insightful, data-packed content that provides actionable insights and serves as a valuable resource for product leaders and teams alike. So, I am honored to share some highlights from The 2023 State of Product Management Report.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The product strategy plays a critical role here. The definition of a product strategy is not the strategy of the product department. It’s a strategy that explains how the company is going to succeed based on the product. But the team you play with is the other leaders in the company.

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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. This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products!

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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. This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products!

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ProductPlan’s 2023 State of Product Management Report found that 54% of roadmaps are designed around outputs. Who knows what the other 3% focus on… What happens when a product team is a feature factory So are feature factories all that bad? How does a product team become a feature factory? Only 43% communicate outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The customer journey is such an important tool when building your product strategy. In product-led growth, its importance is even more significant. These are people who only needed their product for personal use and would never ever become paying users. It must make sense for people to make even a single purchase.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals.

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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. This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products!

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 30, 2024

As 2023 came to a close, Innovatemap organized an internal donation drive to support Wheeler Mission , a respected social services organization serving Indianapolis and the surrounding area. Innovatemap team members are intrinsically motivated with a heart to serve others and give back to the community — it’s why we do what we do.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Much of the learning is about the market and the needs you all have. It happens through applying strategic product discovery processes (the same ones I advise my clients to use) and constantly listening to the market. They could be market changes — now is a great time to offer AI-related training services, for example.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Drives product success. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning. The market will judge.

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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? Because everything’s always changing.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. A strong relationship between product and sales is in itself a health indicator.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. Once optimized, it’s critical to tie the outcome back to the company’s strategy and objectives. Do not skip this step. The root cause?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

When to consider re-evaluating your product principles Here’s some ideas on potential triggers for re-evaluating your product principles: Strategic triggers – a major product strategy decision has been made (i.e. New technology can directly – or indirectly – influence product principles.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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