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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

The quote is attributed to Ford himself for the first time in a letter sent to the UK publication Marketing Week in 2001: “Being market-led implies being led by the consumer — and consumers are bad at coming up with innovations (Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” springs to mind…).”

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

In 2006, Alan Mulally took over as president and CEO of a struggling Ford Motor Company. But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford Motor Company. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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What is Product Design?

The Product Coalition

In a nutshell, product design encompasses the process of creating a product, from understanding the problem to creating a solution. Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. Which mean your customers know what bad design looks like. Now, we can use it to describe both hardware and software design.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. into context and help product teams know what to use when. The full video, show notes, and transcript are below.