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Why is Idea Management Important?

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But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Ideas are fleeting.

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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

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It’s the cluttered spreadsheet of ideas that was created years ago by someone who no longer works at your company. For an idea management solution to work for product teams, it must separate the idea from the opportunity. On their own, ideas often exist in the solution space. You know them well.

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Top Product Roadmap Tools for 2021: These will help you get things done

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Product roadmap tools enable companies to manage their products, evaluate their life cycles as well as communicate the product’s goals and progress to their team members and management. Here is the list of top 10 product roadmap tools, curated for you. URL – [link]. URL – [link].

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How Product Organizations Can Balance Big Bets Versus Short-Term Wins

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Big bets have big payoffs, but there’s a reason it’s called gambling In the venture capital world, the prevailing strategy is to invest in multiple companies knowing that many will fail. But your company isn’t a VC, even if some back it. Both sides have valid arguments for why the company should focus on its primary areas of concern.

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Idea Backlog

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In product management , an idea backlog is a list of ideas that need more discussion or vetting before the company can decide whether to move forward with them. If you see a product feature or other type of item on an idea backlog, you can assume the following. The product team has not rejected the idea.

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How to Support the Entire Product Lifecycle: A Tour of ProductPlan’s Enterprise Plan

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ProductPlan customers have already taken the right step by investing in a purpose-built solution that helps them achieve a holistic view of their product strategy with dynamic roadmapping. Still, product teams can do more to compete and win in this competitive landscape—like standardization, idea management, and launch management.

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Introducing Product Discovery, ProductPlan’s New Tool for Strategic Decision-Making and Idea Capture

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An idea might come from the company strategy that asks the product team to deliver on a particular objective. Or an idea might come directly from your customers who ask for specific improvements to your product. But ideas alone don’t make a product strategy. Opportunities are also a great way to keep your ideas organized.