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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

Understanding OKRs: From Intel to Modern Product Teams The evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) began at Intel during the 1970s and 1980s, where Andy Grove transformed the traditional Management by Objectives (MBO) system into something more dynamic and outcome-focused.

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Networking Product Management

The Product Guy

Rarely, they come due to professional interest alignment. At this point, I’ve heard about meetups and conferences, thus I’ve decided to try them. I’ve been visiting my sister in Boston in October 2016 and saw a volunteering opportunity at the Machine Learning conference. My network is a great learning support system.

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

He explains that their approach to innovation deliberately avoided the common pitfall of creating a two-tiered system where only designated “innovators” were responsible for new ideas. Creating an Inclusive Innovation Environment The foundation of PayPal’s innovation success rested on a culture of trust and autonomy.

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Solving Product Development Challenges With Product Review

Mind the Product

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

Originally starting as a platform for renting out space during conferences, they quickly recognized a larger opportunity in short-term rentals and broadened their focus, adapting their product accordingly. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy.

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464: Creating a recipe for innovation success – with Shawn Houser-Fedor

Product Innovation Educators

Hershey chocolate company’s InnovationOps story I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. 15:58] What benefits have you seen from an information management system? 19:21] How do you schedule reviews? We also have pre-approvals.