Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 28, 2023

What product managers need to know about the Decision Sprint framework for faster problem-solving Today we are talking about faster problem-solving to speed innovation by using a three-part framework including Exploration, Alignment, and Decision-Making. This means we need a way of innovating that is more purposeful.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This happens because people don’t always understand what their role involves or see only a fraction of their work. What’s worse, they actually often can’t make any meaningful progress because they can’t navigate the challenges of the role and the organizational landscape. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 20, 2020

The future back strategy for product managers. Innosight is an innovation management consultancy founded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson. 6:07] What are the limitations of traditional strategic planning? Traditional strategic planning is too anchored in extrapolating present-day norms into the future.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

When Brant Cooper typically speaks to innovation practitioners, he usually tells them to “stop innovating”. He says this because they typically fail to define what they mean by the word innovation. What Does Innovation Mean? Known vs Unknown. In reality, no product falls cleanly into either category.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This article explores what the ‘feature factory’ mindset is and what the signs you might be working in such a company are. We also look at what product managers can do to avoid falling into the trap. We can then focus on their incremental innovation to add even more value. What is a feature factory?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

We need to update those options as we learn more. But managers also need to see options so they can discuss the product strategy and refine the corporate strategy (two different conversations). As the team delivers and discovers, they can update the product strategy and then the product roadmap.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This raises the question: what if we could accelerate and refine user research using cutting-edge technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI)? However, we can only see what users do, not why they do it. However, traditional user research methods can be time-consuming, subjective, and difficult to scale.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. Should you, for example, continue adding new features to the product for the next six months and plan in bigger technical improvement work afterwards?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ambitious growth plans often require addressing new customer needs, entering new markets, selling dramatically different products or applying new technology. Sometimes it’s driven by an innovation process or company strategy to grow. Build, Measure, Learn’ is probably best expressed as ‘Learn, Measure, Build’.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What is RFM analysis? The Monetary value could be determined by the Customer Lifetime Value (CTLV) or what subscription plan they are on. The Monetary value could be determined by the Customer Lifetime Value (CTLV) or what subscription plan they are on. How relevant is it to SaaS product management ?

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. People learned to treat the future "as fundamentally indefinite, and to dismiss as an extremist anyone with plans big enough to be measured in years instead of quarters.".

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We double-down on what we've been doing. When we do, and we learn something, we might feel better about our circumstances and become more open to change. When we do, and we learn something, we might feel better about our circumstances and become more open to change. Too often, we feel as if the world drags us down.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Since then, corporate venturing has seen multiple iterations with plenty of data and examples to learn from. Yet, large companies are prone to restructure and shifts in strategy over shorter horizons that make value creation difficult. If so, what is that fit? in the second half of 2020 to $78.7B in the first half of 2021.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming in a few weeks, and it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Masters Now. . 3:16] What are your responsibilities as a Global CPO? That new name is Product Masters Now. .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

No matter what we do at Whispir , we want to make sure we’re building the right things?—?but The probability of you getting it right in the first iteration is not quite zero but it's close, so make sure you’re iterating your ideas to ensure you’re learning what's wrong and why.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2022

Are you wondering what Shape Up methodology is? Would you like to learn how product managers should use it and when? The article explains what Shape Up is and explores how it compares to other frameworks and tools. What is the Shape Up methodology? If yes, we’ve got you covered! Let’s dive in!

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Indicative

OCTOBER 8, 2020

You need an analytics solution and data strategy that can help make that information useful. . You need an analytics solution and data strategy that can help make that information useful. . What are the stories that your players’ behaviors are telling you? . What Is Gaming Analytics?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

What started as a few gigs selling media, property, and even bicycles turned into a blooming SaaS career that Mark has been mastering for the last decade at Salesforce, Wrike, and now BrowserStack. Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that. And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. First, let’s recap what essentialism means. Vision statements are aspirational and communicate concisely where the product hopes to go and what it hopes to achieve in the long term.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement. 58 Product Owner Theses Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 28k other subscribers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What product discovery part, you may think now. And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. the what-is-in-for-me-syndrome?—?resulting How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Are you wondering what Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is? The article explains what Quality Function Deployment is and explores its benefits and rationale. There are 4 stages of Quality Function Deployment: Product Planning focuses on capturing the Voice of the Customer and mapping requirements against technical specifications.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. So our first struggle is what to call this role. That may be the record for anyone other than search professionals. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? If so, keep on reading, because that’s exactly what we’re diving into in this article. The aim of the Customer Validation stage is to develop a differentiation strategy and the sales funnel and to close the first deals.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Do you participate in launch planning, or what may also be called go-to-market planning? You’ll hear why in this discussion, along with six elements addressed by a go-to-market strategy: Defining the target market. Determining the pricing strategy. Discussing go-to-market strategy is repeat guest, Mike Smart.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

But it can be a real challenge knowing that’s what you’re doing from the outset. A study by HBR found that the 13 companies in the Fortune 100 that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53% of incremental revenue growth and 74% of incremental market cap growth.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? Being overly obsessed with pleasing your customers and not having a plan to make a profit is not sustainable, and will eventually cripple your business.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Let’s dig in…. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

I hosted Will on our podcast, where we talked about how he keeps his team innovating, hiring generalists vs. specialists, managing in a high growth environment and more. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat. for a couple of years, learned a ton there, and then joined Digg. It was a miracle. I was at Yahoo!

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on. What’s the Pay Off?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 7, 2019

What I’ve started to see over time is that two key focus areas for a company are conversion and innovation. If you are looking at the growth curve of a company, the big jumps tend to represent moments of innovation. Some bets that are long, some bets that are short, some that are optimization, some that are innovation.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2017

We have no idea what is going to happen a year, a week, or even five minutes from right now. And what’s worse, believing we do means we are not only kidding ourselves, but it’s almost certain we will not achieve our desired result. This system and strategy embraces the principle of optionality. Let’s be honest.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 11, 2018

He has also worked at SAP, AT&T, and has been an innovation consultant. The plan is that Ford will own a fleet of autonomous vehicles. 4:02] What are APIs and why are they important? Instead, we focus in incremental capability and adding new features that don’t require additional coding.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Ensure alignment between the product vision and product strategy on one hand, and the business objectives on the other. Check out our list! Are you ready to jump in? The product management role is very complex.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What comes next is equally as important. How do you determine what is and isn’t working? How do you know what your customers need and want? You will learn: Why it is critical to be customer-centric and not problem-oriented. Getting your app up and running is only half the battle. Transcript.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In my experience launching ProductPlan and prior products, I’ve learned that talking early with potential customers to identify pain can lead you to create better, more innovative solutions. Ultimately, what you’re seeking is a market with a consistent problem area. Unfortunately, I’ve witnessed this first-hand. Saving time.

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