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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Ideas are fleeting.

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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

ProductPlan

There is no shortage of product ideas. Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born from your interpretation of your product strategy—can all be the starting point for your company’s next great opportunity. How are product teams managing their ideas today? An idea alone does not solve a problem.

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5 Best Practices for Gathering Customer Feedback in 2018

Pragmatic Marketing

Even though it was frustrating, I understood why the software vendor was trying to gather customer feedback—to help with 2018 planning. The experience also drove me to write this article on what I consider to be best practices for gathering customer feedback. Gathering customer feedback should be a constant.

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10 Interactive Software Walkthroughs With Examples

Userpilot

We also covered best practices to ensure your walkthroughs get high user engagement. TL;DR A software walkthrough is the process of guiding users through the main features and processes of a software product. Walkthroughs help to: Improve user onboarding. Increase customer retention. Reduce time to value.

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Top Product Roadmap Tools for 2021: These will help you get things done

NextBigWhat

Product roadmap tools enable companies to manage their products, evaluate their life cycles as well as communicate the product’s goals and progress to their team members and management. Here is the list of top 10 product roadmap tools, curated for you. Starting Price -Free (up to 5 users). URL – [link].

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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

Userpilot

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product management process is a set of steps taking the project from the initial concept to the final product. During the Idea Management stage, continue with need discovery and start brainstorming solutions.

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How Product Organizations Can Balance Big Bets Versus Short-Term Wins

ProductPlan

Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years? How can these things happen in parallel without chaos ensuing?