Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

He helped bring the company public and later through its acquisition for $3.5B. We have attracted some of the best talent in the world here, which in turn created a unique engineering culture full of heart and hustle, probably best summarized by Darragh’s Shipping is your company’s heartbeat article. Interested?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Of course, keeping tactical work aligned with company goals and vision is a critical part of any successful product manager’s job , so this trend to ask for more “strategic thinking” from product people can feel like an invitation to take on more meaningful and high-status work. Leadership should guide, not dictate.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. Create your vision and positioning 4. A subscription revenue model means the company is allowing the users to constantly assess the value provided by the product. ⤵️ What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies? Make sense of your data 2.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Unsurprisingly, there is no standard definition across industries or companies for the career growth of Product Managers. Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. A product-centric organization is a company focused on the details of its products above other considerations, including its customers’ needs. With this model, a business offers users free access to its product.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

John Snyder started Grapeshot in a small office overlooking King’s Parade, right at the heart of the Cambridge tech cluster. While Cambridge is well known for the quality of its technology, many companies have struggled to turn their technology advantage into global commercial success. Sketchnote.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. It was structured such that there was an overarching set of KPIs agreed upon at the leadership level. I tried to give a lot of autonomy to the product, tech, and design teams.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. Unless you also happen to be the founder of the company, then you have to manage the product team without having the power to hire, fire, or make high-level decisions. Be a keeper of the vision.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. Generally speaking, associate product managers will work under other product managers in larger companies. Average Associate Product Manager (APM) Salary: APM salaries vary based on company and by location.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. Throughout the story, the company is struggling to find the right customers and identify its market position. OKRs blend visionary objectives with measurable outcomes.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz].

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now at ThoughtSpot, he is at the forefront of leading companies to incorporate state-of-the-art search and AI-powered analytics into their product strategy. They will share their best visions to ensure you can lead your team on a memorable, profitable road trip as you navigate the evolution of product through the future of SaaS.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. In fact, 83.9%

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. By sharing decision rights with your CTO you may find yourself making plans based on more realistic effort estimates and a collaborative vision set with both the Why and How. In today’s product companies, the team is more connected and engaged through Slack and other group messaging apps.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn. The company is a little over four years old and I was one of the founding team. My job was to define a vision for the product and create a plan to deliver it. Product Vision. Creating the vision for the product early was important. Growing FutureLearn.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Amplitude’s mission to help companies build better products is well-known. Especially in a bigger company, it usually takes a while before you really get to know people, especially people in leadership roles who are busier and might not have time to meet you during your onboarding. Our other mission? Also, we use the donut.ai

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Seeing the big-picture vision and possessing versatility enables product managers to impact, even when the spotlight falls on others instead. Unfortunately, this means a scant opportunity to promote ourselves leads to personal “brands” that seldom extend beyond our companies’ walls (physical or virtual). Optimize yourself with IMPACT.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways. And I can see how.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Every company wields its set of Product Management activities slightly differently, making it difficult to define the function with exact clarity. But across every company, Product Management has to make decisions and achieve its objectives within four competing forces. Welcome to the best role in the company.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Netflix is one of my all-time favorite products and companies. The product manager can do his or her job.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Most companies offer more than a single product. Instead, they provide a product portfolio, think of Microsoft Office/365 as an example. The company took the strategic decision to heavily invest in artificial intelligence and now uses AI to help Office users be more productive. [1] But that’s still not enough.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company. “I have been very fortunate in my career to work for some of the largest and world’s best companies as well as small innovative start-ups. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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