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Why is Idea Management Important?

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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

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For an idea management solution to work for product teams, it must separate the idea from the opportunity. On their own, ideas often exist in the solution space. It’s all about helping product people make better decisions, using the ideas they’ve sourced as invaluable insights to prioritize. An overflowing inbox.

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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

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The product management life cycle consists of seven main stages: You start with Market Research to assess the external business environment and identify the needs of the users. During the Idea Management stage, continue with need discovery and start brainstorming solutions. 2: Idea management. #3: 4: Roadmapping.

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

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A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. Idea management Since your business worries about the short-term and the big picture, there are more ideas than ever to consider. Here are the four ingredients you need.

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Introducing Product Discovery, ProductPlan’s New Tool for Strategic Decision-Making and Idea Capture

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With Product Discovery, you can capture ideas, organize them in a central repository, and validate the right opportunities that will drive your strategy. For Enterprise customers looking for more detailed information on how to get started, check out our support documentation. But ideas alone don’t make a product strategy.

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

ProductPlan

A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. Idea management Since your business worries about the short-term and the big picture, there are more ideas than ever to consider. Here are the four ingredients you need.

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Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product: What’s The Difference?

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As we mentioned before, the purpose of the MVP is to test ideas and inform future development but it doesn’t deliver any actual value, while the MMP does deliver value to the customer. Idea management. Roadmapping. Idea management. Roadmapping. The product development process of an MVP.