We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. When we work on projects, we learn from the experience. MORE
The secret of reducing churn rate? Well done churn analysis and action on the results. In this case study, we show how we enhanced the user experience and gave solutions to reduce the churn rate for Xeropan. MORE
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The #1 visual collaboration platform, RealtimeBoard, now supports the automated creation of mind maps. Structuring your ideas has just become more intuitive with RealtimeBoard. Thanks to our growing expertise in visual collaboration and feedback from 2 million users worldwide, we were able to make truly ‘smart’ boards that help you create mind maps faster. We […]. The post Introducing Mind Maps by RealtimeBoard: a simple yet smart new tool appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog. Update MORE
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Organizational Awareness: The Leader’s Sixth Sense. In our product management community, we rightly place a great deal of attention on the people who are going to use our products. MORE
Imagine you’re going about your day when an executive at your company approaches you: “Hey! I have a great idea for the product and we absolutely have to do something with it!” Most product people know where this is going because these kind of requests from stakeholders are a fact of life for us. MORE
Revenues are softening, some long term decline is suddenly accelerating, and you are missing plan. Senior management wants to know why, and – more importantly – what are you doing about it. They point their fingers to Product Management to right the ship. The Problem – Product Management has many tools in its bag that […]. PM Tales product management tales MORE
On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “Can you give me an example of a really great or a really bad strategy?”. Read The Full Blog Post. MORE
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier. MORE
When we posed this question to our debaters, we got a resounding sigh of recognition. Many product leaders seem to be debating this question amongst themselves and within their teams. What product is, and even more so, what product management is, differs with every company, and the question of background, skills, and expertise of product. The post Should product managers have a technical background? appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo MORE
Performing market research requires direct interaction with your target demographic. Researchers need hard data from the individuals in their market. MORE
Your Teams Don’t Talk with Customers Enough?—?Here Here is an Easy Fix Do you ever feel like your teams don’t have the pulse of the market? Like they don’t get enough time with real users/customers? MORE
“Hello Mark, I have a pricing topic you may or may not want to use in a blog. I recently returned from a weekend trip to Denver. I booked the flights using Travelocity, because the cheap Southwest airlines fares are were all gone. I flew United to Denver and returned on Frontier. MORE
Creating your product vision can be difficult when you focus too much on the product. Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” MORE
In almost all areas of our lives, we expect to know what’s going on instantly — we receive news alerts seconds after a large event happens, and we can track traffic and train delays on our phones. So why would you settle for business analytics that don’t keep up with the rest of your life? MORE
Dreamforce, the world’s favorite (and largest) technology conference hosted by Salesforce (the world’s number 1 CRM provider) is just round the corner. It’s the biggest meet up for technology leaders. Technographics account-based marketing MORE
September//21//2018 Here are some interesting finds on UI/UX of the week! link] Illustrations Enhancing UI Design. As I have previously alluded to, “Aesthetic” is one of the key design principles. MORE
Even the best ideas are useless without proper execution How often have you spent time in multi-day planning sessions, created a huge set of goals for the upcoming year, only to circle back a year later to find that most of the goals were not achieved? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. MORE
Shake Shack burgers are good, but could they be even better? Image Credit: Lucas Richarz. I’m pretty sure that we’ve all had that feeling: it’s the “I want a burger” feeling. MORE
To what extent should a product manager be concerned about the portfolio? Is there a portfolio product manager role? There are portfolio product manager roles, but all product managers share responsibilities for the portfolio. There are things you do to your products for purposes of customer retention and then there are things you do to your products in conjunction with other products to form solutions. MORE
What do you consider a product? Us product managers, past or present, are probably quick to point to our trusty smartphones, our favorite apps, and even our own software but Mike Belsito thinks otherwise. He considers everything a product. MORE
It’s easier to sell products that don’t exist because they can do anything buyers want. Unfortunately, no one makes money selling products you don’t have. Here are three ways to get better at selling products you have and grow revenue faster. MORE
Looking to the past to drive future innovation. I am on a road trip through the northeast of the U.S., talking with innovators and product managers. At the encouragement of a friend, I took my two kids to visit The Henry Ford, a museum of innovation near Detroit. MORE
The B2B Product Manager Magazine September 2018 is now available. A product vision is just as valuable to product, marketing and sales teams as it is to customers because it keeps the focus on customer value. MORE
More and more enterprise businesses have embraced multi-sided marketplaces to extend existing business models and explore new territories for growth. For example, in 2009, Walmart launched its own Marketplace to connect third-party merchants with Walmart customers partly to catch up with Amazon’s already established third-party marketplace. General Motors launched Maven, a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects owners of GM cars with people who need to rent cars. MORE
Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. MORE
Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft. MORE
The single biggest reason for reactive product decisions is the absence of a cohesive top-down strategy that articulates where you’re going, how you’ll get there and why you’ll succeed – articulated in terms of customer value. The Playbook: In many organizations, a strategy is nothing more than a set of goals like revenue, profitability, customer retention, etc., with a few accompanying objectives like “greater customer focus.” MORE
Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well. MORE
TL;DR: Land and expand is a great tactic, but there are pitfalls, explains Luke Taylor , formerly Head of Product Management at Huddle. You have more than one customer and both are equally important for different reasons. MORE
Proficientz – Product Management University
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
The B2B Product Manager Magazine September 2018 is now available. A product vision is just as valuable to product, marketing and sales teams as it is to customers because it keeps the focus on customer value.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Shake Shack burgers are good, but could they be even better? Image Credit: Lucas Richarz. I’m pretty sure that we’ve all had that feeling: it’s the “I want a burger” feeling.
The Product Bistro
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Revenues are softening, some long term decline is suddenly accelerating, and you are missing plan. Senior management wants to know why, and – more importantly – what are you doing about it. They point their fingers to Product Management to right the ship. The Problem – Product Management has many tools in its bag that […]. PM Tales product management tales
Product Management Lessons from the Trenches
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Your Teams Don’t Talk with Customers Enough?—?Here Here is an Easy Fix Do you ever feel like your teams don’t have the pulse of the market? Like they don’t get enough time with real users/customers?
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Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
“Hello Mark, I have a pricing topic you may or may not want to use in a blog. I recently returned from a weekend trip to Denver. I booked the flights using Travelocity, because the cheap Southwest airlines fares are were all gone. I flew United to Denver and returned on Frontier.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Organizational Awareness: The Leader’s Sixth Sense. In our product management community, we rightly place a great deal of attention on the people who are going to use our products.
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. When we work on projects, we learn from the experience.
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Imagine you’re going about your day when an executive at your company approaches you: “Hey! I have a great idea for the product and we absolutely have to do something with it!” Most product people know where this is going because these kind of requests from stakeholders are a fact of life for us.
Pragmatic Marketing
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well.
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Proficientz – Product Management University
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Creating your product vision can be difficult when you focus too much on the product. Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!”
Generation Focus
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Performing market research requires direct interaction with your target demographic. Researchers need hard data from the individuals in their market.
ProductCraft Debates
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
When we posed this question to our debaters, we got a resounding sigh of recognition. Many product leaders seem to be debating this question amongst themselves and within their teams. What product is, and even more so, what product management is, differs with every company, and the question of background, skills, and expertise of product. The post Should product managers have a technical background? appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo
ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
What do you consider a product? Us product managers, past or present, are probably quick to point to our trusty smartphones, our favorite apps, and even our own software but Mike Belsito thinks otherwise. He considers everything a product.
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Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
More and more enterprise businesses have embraced multi-sided marketplaces to extend existing business models and explore new territories for growth. For example, in 2009, Walmart launched its own Marketplace to connect third-party merchants with Walmart customers partly to catch up with Amazon’s already established third-party marketplace. General Motors launched Maven, a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects owners of GM cars with people who need to rent cars.
Proficientz – Product Management University
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
To what extent should a product manager be concerned about the portfolio? Is there a portfolio product manager role? There are portfolio product manager roles, but all product managers share responsibilities for the portfolio. There are things you do to your products for purposes of customer retention and then there are things you do to your products in conjunction with other products to form solutions.
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
And some tips to building your own :) Having some years of experience working with product teams, I’m pretty sure that this multidisciplinary and agile approach is the right one for developing innovative and customer-centric solutions that really make users’ lives easier.
DemandMatrix
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Dreamforce, the world’s favorite (and largest) technology conference hosted by Salesforce (the world’s number 1 CRM provider) is just round the corner. It’s the biggest meet up for technology leaders. Technographics account-based marketing
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ProductCraft
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
“Yeah, that came out a little country, but every word was right on the money.” Blake Shelton said it best when describing this mixtape. The Roadmapping playlist is a bit country, but it feels so right. It’s the perfect mix of songs for mapping out feature releases of your product.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft.
Proficientz – Product Management University
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
The single biggest reason for reactive product decisions is the absence of a cohesive top-down strategy that articulates where you’re going, how you’ll get there and why you’ll succeed – articulated in terms of customer value. The Playbook: In many organizations, a strategy is nothing more than a set of goals like revenue, profitability, customer retention, etc., with a few accompanying objectives like “greater customer focus.”
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Even the best ideas are useless without proper execution How often have you spent time in multi-day planning sessions, created a huge set of goals for the upcoming year, only to circle back a year later to find that most of the goals were not achieved? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone.
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DemandMatrix
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
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Product Innovation Educators
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Looking to the past to drive future innovation. I am on a road trip through the northeast of the U.S., talking with innovators and product managers. At the encouragement of a friend, I took my two kids to visit The Henry Ford, a museum of innovation near Detroit.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
TL;DR: Land and expand is a great tactic, but there are pitfalls, explains Luke Taylor , formerly Head of Product Management at Huddle. You have more than one customer and both are equally important for different reasons.
UX Studio
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
The secret of reducing churn rate? Well done churn analysis and action on the results. In this case study, we show how we enhanced the user experience and gave solutions to reduce the churn rate for Xeropan.
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The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
September//21//2018 Here are some interesting finds on UI/UX of the week! link] Illustrations Enhancing UI Design. As I have previously alluded to, “Aesthetic” is one of the key design principles.
Dear Strategy
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “Can you give me an example of a really great or a really bad strategy?”. Read The Full Blog Post.
RealtimeBoard
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
The #1 visual collaboration platform, RealtimeBoard, now supports the automated creation of mind maps. Structuring your ideas has just become more intuitive with RealtimeBoard. Thanks to our growing expertise in visual collaboration and feedback from 2 million users worldwide, we were able to make truly ‘smart’ boards that help you create mind maps faster. We […]. The post Introducing Mind Maps by RealtimeBoard: a simple yet smart new tool appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog. Update
Indicative
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
In almost all areas of our lives, we expect to know what’s going on instantly — we receive news alerts seconds after a large event happens, and we can track traffic and train delays on our phones. So why would you settle for business analytics that don’t keep up with the rest of your life?
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