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Two Powerhouses, One Vision: How Northpass and Gainsight Will Shape the Future of Digital Customer Education

Gainsight

Our team’s vision, focus, talents, and hard work were central to achieving this milestone. A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. So around this time last year, we revisited and sharpened our vision.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The messaging feature “Slack” quickly became more successful than the game, and Glitch was cut in 2012. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over?—?and Tiny Spec also worked on an internal communication tool and eventually made it available to outside users. and let it go.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

When you look inside these stories, you often find a corporate explorer at the center of them—someone who has the vision, commitment, and passion to drive it through. When you look inside these stories, you often find a corporate explorer at the center of them—someone who has the vision, commitment, and passion to drive it through.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Localization in Japan: Understanding the ins-and-outs of Japanese Websites

freshtrax

In 2012, they launched their Nescafe Ambassador program, where office workers would work as baristas all over the country and also spread the word about coffee in the workplace. Watch out for trends, do your research, and extend your brand’s vision to Japan. It has a modular design, with more images and descriptions.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As the company grows, it’s natural that the keeper of the product vision, becomes the keeper of the company vision. But there are numerous differences that keep these two roles separate.

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Impact Mapping: Does it Make a Difference in Building Better Products?

Userpilot

It became popular thanks to the 2012 Gojko Adzic book. As new feature ideas come up, it’s super important to stay true to the overall product vision and choose only those that will help you realize it. The map will help you set the high-level vision. Impact Mapping by Gojko Adzic. Even worse, they may have different goals.