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The Power of Amazon's Written Narratives

Sachin Rekhi

But by 2004, Jeff Bezos had become increasingly frustrated with the lack of productivity he felt from the exec meetings he held with product teams. In 2004, Bezos and team came across an essay by Edward Tufte , a Yale professor who is an authority on the visualization of information. Get used to it."

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

The award started in 1988, and in 2004 the OCI committee was asked to write a chapter for the PDMA Handbook of New Product Development about the OCI award. We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021. 9:40] What are key innovation practices that winners have in common?

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What Is Your Product?

The Product Coalition

Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective. This approach defines the product from an engineering perspective and not from a customer perspective. Alan Cooper’s prescient book, The Inmates are Running the Asylum , was a wake-up call back in 2004.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

I studied artificial intelligence in college in 2004. From our perspective, the most interesting of these changes are the new platforms we now have to build on, and the rich data available to them. Investing in machine learning to make automation personal at scale. It was overhyped then, and it’s overhyped now.

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Zambian-born UX Designer on the Differences in Service Design in the U.S. and Japan – Interview with Nondo Sikazwe Part-2

freshtrax

His unique background gives him a unique set of perspectives when it comes to cultural differences in design. If you haven’t seen Part-1 of our interview with Mr. Sikazwe, please check it out here: What is the Japanese design market like from the perspective of a designer with a unique background of living and working in Africa and Japan?

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I Was a Product Manager Before It Was Cool

ProductCraft

2004 feels like a century ago. But 2004 was the year that a mentor took. Think about it. We didn’t have Airbnb and Uber. It would be three more years before the first iPhone would make its appearance, two years before the launch of AWS, and almost a full decade before the emergence of Slack.

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eBay’s search metrics used to suck

The Product Coalition

Ben Foster, who was the company’s PM of Findings between 2001–2004, was in charge of that effort. Search The problem At first glance, both eBay and Amazon offered a similar search experience: the buyer would go on the platform’s website, enter a set of keywords and receive a bunch of items for sale relative to those keywords.