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The Importance of Market Segmentation

The Product Bistro

One of the core responsibilities of Marketing in an organization is to effectively define and track the marketing segments. This is far more than just an academic exercise, but is essential to many other key tasks within a company. Segmentation is crucial to effective pricing strategies. You can often target addressable segments with different prices, giving opportunities to both increase volume (units shipped) and profit.

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How to Educate Stakeholders

Melissa Perri

There is one question I always get during every Product Management workshop: How do I convince/teach/educate stakeholders to work this way? The class has bought in on validation before building, a focus on problems, and defined metrics. They can see the value, but they are afraid they will return to work and get shot down. Often they do. Unfortunately, there’s really not much you can do about […].

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Video: The Art of Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

Video: The Art of Product Management. Slides: The Art of Product Management. Recently Karl Ulrich asked me to give my talk on the Art of Product Management at a Wharton Entrepreneurs Workshop. They recorded the video and I wanted to share it here as well. Product managers drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. While one can often quickly comprehend the basic responsibilities of the role, mastering each of these dimensions is truly an art form that one is constantly h

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Stop Improving Your Product

Product Club

M eet Ronald. Ronald’s product focus for the last year has been a cloud accounting solution for the small business owner. The core product is solid and internal user testing has been positive, but Ronald is still polishing customizable themes and a calendar integration. As such, release has been postponed three times. Failure to launch. No Ronald, no.

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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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The Future Was Already Here – Bringing the Donuts 05/24/2016

Ken Norton

How fast does technology move? -. An Indianapolis entrepreneur named Stanley Brown is enthusiastic about virtual reality. With the financial backing of some friends, he has opened the first retail store dedicated to VR, where visitors can test-drive the newest headsets and apps. As The New York Times writes: “We’re too early and we know it,”.

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When to Choose Fiverr for Design Work

I Wonder The Value

On the last post, I introduced how to pick up freelancer on fiverr. After finishing the design outsouce on fiverr, I got a conclusion about when to choose fiverr for design work. I’m going to share it and why. Before going to the conclusion, I start from the review about the design work. 1. Plan of the work I split the design work to trial work and main work in order to double-check the freelancer’s skill.

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Comment on MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager by Roman

Product Club

Thank you for this. I will just send this to my HR team now when they ask for my ideal candidate for PM! The only thing I’d add is a skillset in being a super-detailed QA sign-off. I have yet to be able to effectively delegate QA to the point that I can ok launch without doing some myself. Knowing how to fitness test branches of logic and browser test (including mobile) is a good skill to have.

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How does Truveris validate new features and drive user engagement for its award-winning app OneRX?

DISQO

Increasing drug prices are again at the forefront of national attention. Anxiety runs high for those that need to fill prescriptions that once seemed affordable yet continue to take up higher shares of disposable income. A New York-based health technology company is focused on alleviating much of the pain for consumers. Truveris is the maker of OneRX , an award-winning app that enables patients to look up prescription drug costs and redeem hidden coupons and discounts before they select a pharma

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Art of Product Management–and other innovation insights for product managers May 27, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Video – The art of product management. Sachin Rekhi, software product manager, spoke at a Wharton Business School workshop for entrepreneurs about what product managers do. Watch the video at [link].

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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 We Learned from TSIA’s 11th Annual Global Technology Survey

TSIA

This year TSIA’s Global Technology Survey saw a major overhaul. The survey grew from 24 categories in 2015 to 42 categories this year, incorporating new technologies for our expanded list of service disciplines, as well as breaking out some broad categories to track individual tools more granularly. For each category, the survey asked respondents which tool they are using, how satisfied they are with it, and in what areas they are planning additional investments in 2016-2017.

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The Future Was Already Here – Bring the Donuts 05/24/2016

Ken Norton

How fast does technology move? -. An Indianapolis entrepreneur named Stanley Brown is enthusiastic about virtual reality. With the financial backing of some friends, he has opened the first retail store dedicated to VR, where visitors can test-drive the newest headsets and apps. As The New York Times writes: “We’re too early and we know it,”.

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How does Truveris validate new features and drive user engagement for its award-winning app OneRX?

DISQO

Increasing drug prices are again at the forefront of national attention. Anxiety runs high for those that need to fill prescriptions that once seemed affordable yet continue to take up higher shares of disposable income. A New York-based health technology company is focused on alleviating much of the pain for consumers. Truveris is the maker of OneRX , an award-winning app that enables patients to look up prescription drug costs and redeem hidden coupons and discounts before they select a pharma

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How to Pickup Freelancer on Fiverr

I Wonder The Value

Have you tried fiverr ? It’s a service to get fixed freelance work from $5. Each gig is very cheap and we can basically communicate with freelancers only on the platform. When we pick up better freelancers on the platform, there are some points that we should care about. I’m going to introduce how I checked on the order for UI design for my mobile app. 1.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Top Customer Success Takeaways from Gainsight Pulse 2016 and TSW San Diego

TSIA

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Technology Services World (TSW) conference hosted by TSIA, and the Pulse conference hosted by Gainsight. Between the many keynotes, breakout sessions, and discussion with attendees, I've put together a quick list of the top four themes I heard from the two conferences that I'd like to share with you as TSIA's new VP of customer success research.

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The Future Was Already Here – Bring the Donuts 05/24/2016

Ken Norton

How fast does technology move? -. An Indianapolis entrepreneur named Stanley Brown is enthusiastic about virtual reality. With the financial backing of some friends, he has opened the first retail store dedicated to VR, where visitors can test-drive the newest headsets and apps. As The New York Times writes: “We’re too early and we know it,”.

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How does Truveris validate new features and drive user engagement for its award-winning app OneRX?

DISQO

Increasing drug prices are again at the forefront of national attention. Anxiety runs high for those that need to fill prescriptions that once seemed affordable yet continue to take up higher shares of disposable income. A New York-based health technology company is focused on alleviating much of the pain for consumers. Truveris is the maker of OneRX , an award-winning app that enables patients to look up prescription drug costs and redeem hidden coupons and discounts before they select a pharma

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Top class free Cloud Certication from Rackspace - Go for it!

SidsAvenue

I heard about cloud computing for the first time in 2008 and was fascinated by it. It promised to change the way IT is delivered and it has not failed at all. Since then, I have been trying to get my foot in the cloud ecosystem and ended up doing this: a. Wrote this post detailing the how cloud computing will kill Piracy. b. In my job, I contributed in preparing a Application readiness assessment for moving application to cloud.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Intuit partners with UserTesting to launch new health insurance section of TurboTax

UserTesting

The challenge. As part of the Affordable Care Act, 2014 was the first tax year that U.S. taxpayers had to report their health coverage to the IRS. TurboTax, the #1 best-selling tax software in the U.S., had a unique challenge: … The post Intuit partners with UserTesting to launch new health insurance section of TurboTax appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Protein Bar Research Aims for 'Focus Feasts'

dscout People Nerds

In-the-moment research helps deliver a tasty menu for a new concept by The Protein Bar.

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How do product leaders transform their organizations?

DISQO

Innovative organizations are transforming to be more customer-centric, value learning over winning, and to start with problems rather than products. Product leaders within these companies are the driving force behind such critical shifts, and understand that it requires stakeholder action to make an impact. Alpha teamed up with General Assembly to bring together more than twenty senior product executives from Fortune 500 and growth-stage organizations, including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase

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How to Educate Stakeholders

Melissa Perri

There is one question I always get during every Product Management workshop: How do I convince/teach/educate stakeholders to work this way? stakeholders. The class has bought in on validation before building, a focus on problems, and defined metrics. They can see the value, but they are afraid they will return to work and get shot down. Often they do.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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UX in Action: Q&A with Frank Yoo, Director of Product Design at Lyft

UserTesting

We recently sat down with Lyft’s Director of Product Design, Frank Yoo , to talk about how he thinks about building product, managing design teams, and the future of ride-sharing. Enjoy! Q: How is your team at Lyft structured? Currently, … The post UX in Action: Q&A with Frank Yoo, Director of Product Design at Lyft appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Measuring User Moments with a Menu

dscout People Nerds

How dscout flavored Protein Bar’s new brand launch.

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How do product leaders transform their organizations?

DISQO

Innovative organizations are transforming to be more customer-centric, value learning over winning, and to start with problems rather than products. Product leaders within these companies are the driving force behind such critical shifts, and understand that it requires stakeholder action to make an impact. Alpha teamed up with General Assembly to bring together more than twenty senior product executives from Fortune 500 and growth-stage organizations, including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase

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How do product leaders transform their organizations?

DISQO

Innovative organizations are transforming to be more customer-centric, value learning over winning, and to start with problems rather than products. Product leaders within these companies are the driving force behind such critical shifts, and understand that it requires stakeholder action to make an impact. Alpha teamed up with General Assembly to bring together more than twenty senior product executives from Fortune 500 and growth-stage organizations, including General Electric, JP Morgan Chase

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Intuit partners with UserTesting to launch new health insurance section of TurboTax

UserTesting

The challenge. As part of the Affordable Care Act, 2014 was the first tax year that U.S. taxpayers had to report their health coverage to the IRS. TurboTax, the #1 best-selling tax software in the U.S., had a unique challenge: … The post Intuit partners with UserTesting to launch new health insurance section of TurboTax appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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UX in Action: Q&A with Frank Yoo, Director of Product Design at Lyft

UserTesting

We recently sat down with Lyft’s Director of Product Design, Frank Yoo , to talk about how he thinks about building product, managing design teams, and the future of ride-sharing. Enjoy! Q: How is your team at Lyft structured? Currently, … The post UX in Action: Q&A with Frank Yoo, Director of Product Design at Lyft appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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