Innovatemap

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we wrap up 2023 (see what we did there), let’s give credit to the products, podcasts and people who inspired us at work, home and everywhere in between. From insights keeping us informed on product trends to friendly competition around the Village Table, here’s a list of a few favorites from our team.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It is no surprise that we talk a lot about software usage analytics , but I thought it would be interesting to take a look and see what industry analysts are saying, too. The “SaaSification of software” is also leading on-premise software vendors to leverage software usage analytics to drive decisions.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products. A specialty roadmap focuses exclusively on one area, for example, UX design or research , but across multiple products.

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Product Warrior

JANUARY 26, 2023

But I predict 2023 will be the year product management will get to reap the benefits of both, thanks to the impact of cognitive automation. But I hear stories of data analysis, query answering, and desk research eating up resources all the time. If PMs wanted to crunch numbers, they’d be working as analysts at banks.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Part of the research is for fine-tuning how I explain the value as well as the service itself to founders and investors.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Product leadership coach Petra Wille became fascinated with the idea of Communities of Practice because in her experience, they were the differentiating factor between companies that had successful product orgs and those that didn’t. ©2022 " Product Talk " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Every dollar’s worth of expense is a fight, and spending 30% of the budget on “simply asking questions” (read: UX research) can be a hard sell. How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction? It’s a great tool that aids informed decision-making about what journeys are to be prioritized.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy in practice According to The 2023 State of Product Management Report , the most significant influence on product strategy (46%) is business goals and objectives. Those product managers are proactive and focus on the future to plot their product strategy. Not necessarily.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

Technological Advancements: The consumerization of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can bring innovation to industries ranging from education to healthcare to newsletter writing. For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Growth is fundamental to every SaaS business: growth experimentation is a way to turbocharge your growth prospects and drive customer success. Firstly, it boosts the velocity of data and research-driven decision-making. Optimizes conversion rates at important touchpoints As a product manager, the analysis of key metrics is crucial.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. The way they understood the term ‘product’ was very straightforward — the actual bites of code that are released to the world for people to use. We are here to help you.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Whether you’re a seasoned product management pro or just starting out on this thrilling journey, we’re pretty sure you’ll discover a book or two that will help you boost your product management game.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 5, 2022

JJ Rorie is founder and CEO of Great Product Management. She is the author of the book IMMUTABLE: 5 Truths of Great Product Managers. She is Faculty at Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, teaching graduate level product management courses. About JJ Rorie. Listen here →.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A customer persona is a great tool here since it helps you get into their general mindset and not just the specific interaction with your product. As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS!

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Product Talk

APRIL 19, 2023

The world of digital products is evolving quickly. Whether you’re trying to keep track of everything you learn about your customers during continuous discovery , keep tabs on the latest thought leadership and learnings from others in the industry, or keep on top of all the newest products on the market, you can quickly get overwhelmed.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

As a result, its product team plays a central role in strategy and decision-making. Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. With this model, a business offers users free access to its product.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 7, 2023

She is also the co-founder and managing partner at MIDIOR, which has been providing professional services for 26 years to product organizations in a number of areas from product insights, product development and management, and technology platforms.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. of respondents said that their Head of Product (e.g. CPO, VP of Product) was involved. said an executive other than their head of product was involved, and 6.3%

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Most of my background is in education and research. Prior to product, I was working in a classroom and then doing research on teacher education. I was kind of adjacent to product in a lot of ways, but not quite in the field. Once they were acquired, they hired a VP of Product, who I worked with briefly.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Who tends to use this product?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2023

Saying ‘no’ is an important skill for product managers. Today I want to talk about a specific type of saying ‘no’, one that not many product managers even realize is an option: saying ‘no’ to customer requests. You, the product manager, have a say. A great card, don’t you think?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

Sometimes, by the way, just by understanding where exactly you disagree with other people, the problem solves itself  — you might be able to find research that supports one side of the argument, or understand that the next step is to conduct such research by yourself. It read “we focus on the SaaS market”.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

In most cases, you should pretend that design and product are part of the team. Embed a designer and product manager on each team. By reporting to Product, he forced the Product team to do the work to align themselves with Design. I often see Design and Product working in different directions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2023

At Team Userpilot, 47% of us are female, including 44% of the leadership positions. Today – on International Women’s day – we wanted to introduce some of our women in Product , and then talk about why it’s important to make female voices in Product heard.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

In my book, Continuous Discovery Habits , I define continuous discovery as at a minimum weekly touchpoints with customers by the team that’s building the product where they conduct small research activities in pursuit of a desired product outcome. The heart of this visual is an opportunity solution tree.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Synthetic Humans is designed for product teams to conduct market research and takes LLMs to the next level by allowing AI bots to chat to each other. The product creates synthetic focus groups, tailored to your niche and allows UX researchers to set a topic for discussion which can then be monitored.

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