Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Find a Mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or That slashes the work to <600 hours/week/product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Reporting Tools Agile Feedback Software User Testing 158

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Mind the Product founder Martin Eriksson opened the conference by reminding us why we gather each year. He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? Review your progress before it is ready. Mind the Platform.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I opened this year’s Mind the Product London conference by suggesting that product management isn’t actually about managing products, but about managing people. I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. Saving Time and Money. Quality Design.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. I might do a review of the product itself, to understand what’s happening. That’s fairly typical for me.”.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

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. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. What the boss doesn’t know is that it often leads to burn-out and tech debt. Take GDPR for example.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Development Team Review Customer Experience User Testing 171

Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. The same technology can be used for (web) chat interfaces.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  That each week they leave a fresh gift (💩) for the tech side to clean up – displacing whatever was planned.  But

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Ask users to leave reviews on the app store to add social proof to your app. However, there are good and bad ways to approach this tactic. Asking current users to review your app to increase trust and encourage the algorithm to display your app to more users. comparison posts, product lists, reviews, etc.)

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This is partially due to the democratization of SaaS – with more and more contenders joining the market, great product and customer experience is not an option anymore – it’s what makes or breaks your product. – SaaS is much better understood as a model (even for non-tech savvy users!).

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Book Review: ‘Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ Stephanie Hare, author of the recently published, ‘ Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ , will join us at Business of Software Conference Online next week, 9 March to talk about an important topic.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Roadmap Data Visualization Customer Experience User Testing 147

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Developing Your own Team. Product leaders have many questions – and even more answers – about how best to develop and empower their teams. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it. Collaborating with other teams.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s a word that isn’t commonly favoured by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. Organisations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organised in “squads”. trillion in 2020.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They get to know all of this by using data as a strategic asset—because good product teams are made up of good product analysts. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Asking developers to pull data isn’t an efficient use of their time.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

Look for the people that are mentoring an intern, running a meeting, or organizing an initiative for the team. Product leaders should think about how to support and develop all product managers, without assuming they want to become people managers. If the manager is the best at everything then they don’t have a very strong team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It will take a lot of your time to review and assess every company’s website manually. UX studio Capitol Tech Solutions Digital Deployment Jives Media Cinch Web Design Web Sauce Studio E. He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Capitol Tech Solutions.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

According to leading research on technical recruiting, the interview process for the Internet and Tech industry currently averages more than 24 days. Resumes are reviewed, weeding out a large portion, followed by phone interviews, multiple rounds of in-person interviews, reference checks and then an offer.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback. Top brands orchestrate journeys seamlessly thanks to technology.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

You may end up attracting more leads on top of the funnel – but the leads will inevitably be of poor quality and your conversion rates will be dismal. Just look at the Marketing Technology Landscape (Martech) in 2018: Image Source. I like to use the example mentioned by Karen Peakock, COO of Intercom, on the SaaStr conference.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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