Sat.May 13, 2017 - Fri.May 19, 2017

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People Don’t Buy Capabilities, They Buy Knowledge

The Secret PM Handbook

This guy might have too much knowledge. Knowledge is power. Most of our tools and applications deliver capabilities, but users and buyers are always hoping that what they’re buying is knowledge. Knowledge of how to do the job. How to do the job faster, or with fewer errors, or with better outcomes. If we don’t put the knowledge in, the our users have to figure it all out themselves.

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How you become the ideal team player

Lead on Purpose

Teamwork is critical for the true success of everything we do. Think about it, every venture we undertake requires help from someone; that’s the way it’s supposed to go.

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Using White Papers to Generate More Quality Leads

Product Management University

To this day, white papers are still largely viewed as more educational than propaganda. For all the white papers produced, many B2B organizations fail to get the maximum marketing value for their efforts. The Playbook: White Papers 101. There are a multitude of approaches to solving any problem. A white paper in its most basic form educates prospective customers on your approach to addressing an issue without making a direct sales pitch.

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Keeping Your Stakeholder Relationships in CREDiT

Mind the Product

Stakeholder management is one of the biggest factors in your success in product management. At the same time product managers frequently tell me that it’s one of their biggest challenges. The most powerful foundation for managing stakeholders is building strong, positive relationships with them. To help think about what this means in practice, I’ve developed the “CREDiT” model to encapsulate the essentials of stakeholder relationship management.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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People Don’t Buy Capabilities, They Buy Knowledge

The Secret PM Handbook

This guy might have too much knowledge. Knowledge is power. Most of our tools and applications deliver capabilities, but users and buyers are always hoping that what they’re buying is knowledge. Knowledge of how to do the job. How to do the job faster, or with fewer errors, or with better outcomes. If we don’t put the knowledge in, the our users have to figure it all out themselves.

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How Great Product Companies are Transforming their Analytics Stack

Amplitude

The world of product development is changing rapidly. Twenty years ago, “online” was a new acquisition channel. But today, online is the product. And all companies are turning into digital product businesses. However, the fact that software is eating the world shouldn’t be surprising to anyone reading this. But how quickly it’s happening might be: over half of all Fortune 500 companies since 2000 no longer exist.

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The Evolution of a Product Manager – Josh McWilliam

Mind the Product

Josh McWilliam is a co-founder and Vice President of Product at College Factual. Their mission is to help every student realize their full potential through the best fit education their money can buy. While their focus is on students with the College Factual brand, they also have other brands like Ed.ai (for advisors), Educate.ai (for colleges), and BRIGHT HUB (for teachers).

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How Can A Product Manager Bring A Bookstore Back From The Dead?

The Accidental Product Manager

Do bookstores even still exist? Image Credit: As a product manager, one of the things that we like the best is taking on a challenge. However, there has to be a least a chance that we can be successful. If someone came to you and asked you to make a book store become successful in this day and age, would you take on the challenge? I mean, are bookstores even still around?

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Bet

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Accelerate Marketing Automation Strategies with Usage Analytics

Revulytics

In his inaugural address to the audience at this year’s Marketo Marketing Nation Summit, Steve Lucas , the new CEO of the marketing automation heavyweight, defined a chief challenge facing marketers today as one of “supply and demand,” according to event coverage. As we focus our marketing efforts on creating more demand for our products, we’re constrained by “the law of diminishing returns.

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Using Twyman’s Law to Avoid Red Herrings in Product Analytics

Amplitude

The world of analytics is full of red herrings and false paths. When there’s so much data to work with, it’s easy to get careless and assume that the numbers right under your nose are always telling you the truth: A new piece of code breaks your homepage , but after looking at your analytics you see that users are spending more time on it than ever —and therefore must be more engaged.

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Discussing The Importance of Streaming Video Quality with Stephen Dolan Sr.

Amir Rozenberg

Video streaming is becoming one of the key elements of modern digital applications. They enable innovation, new user experiences and new business models in many verticals, from retail, FinServ, social, media, etc. The entire ecosystem is going through a revolution: the application architecture is changing – the delivery formats, screens and devices used to consume content, etc.

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Savor the Next Stage in Your Product Management Career

The Product Guy

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Is the Chase Sapphire Reserve the perfect credit card?

DISQO

Last year, credit cards generated an impressive $163 billion in interest and fees, a number that is only expected to grow in 2017. Yet despite the enormous windfall, JP Morgan Chase & Co. managed to shave close to $300 million off of profits in the fourth quarter after shelling out enormous perks for its new Chase Sapphire Reserve card. The card was so popular that Chase reportedly ran out of the metal used to make the card, and had to ship temporary plastic versions instead.

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3 Technology and Services Industry Trends for Profitable Growth [SlideShare]

TSIA

For over a decade, TSIA has closely tracked the product and service revenue as well as the profit trends of 50 of the largest technology solutions providers in the world through our Technology & Services 50 index. This valuable information, which we aggregate from publicly reported data from a diverse list of hardware, software, and pure service companies, allows us to get an accurate view of the performance and overall state of the industry.

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Is the Chase Sapphire Reserve the perfect credit card?

DISQO

Last year, credit cards generated an impressive $163 billion in interest and fees, a number that is only expected to grow in 2017. Yet despite the enormous windfall, JP Morgan Chase & Co. managed to shave close to $300 million off of profits in the fourth quarter after shelling out enormous perks for its new Chase Sapphire Reserve card. The card was so popular that Chase reportedly ran out of the metal used to make the card, and had to ship temporary plastic versions instead.

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Is the Chase Sapphire Reserve the perfect credit card?

DISQO

Last year, credit cards generated an impressive $163 billion in interest and fees, a number that is only expected to grow in 2017. Yet despite the enormous windfall, JP Morgan Chase & Co. managed to shave close to $300 million off of profits in the fourth quarter after shelling out enormous perks for its new Chase Sapphire Reserve card. The card was so popular that Chase reportedly ran out of the metal used to make the card, and had to ship temporary plastic versions instead.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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What I Heard at TSW San Diego 2017

TSIA

I'm now fully recovered from the recent Technology Services World, my 23 rd TSIA conference over the last 11 years. It was a very busy 3 days for me , with a keynote, 6 presentations, 15 1:1 meetings, and countless conversations in hallways and in the TSW | EXPO. Now that I've had some time to process all that I heard, I wanted to write up some of the principle themes and/or trends that popped up again and again.