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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

Tweet This Teeba liked how Teresa focuses on continuous discovery, and she learned about the opportunity solution tree at a conference. “I I made sure to think about both the end customer experience and the tax expert experience,” says Teeba. This one focuses on customer support within the platform.

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TEI 174: Voice of the Customer tools product managers use – with Colleen Knuff

Product Innovation Educators

What products will delight customers? One that stands out is Ben Brenton, Chief Innovation Officer at Snap-on Tools , who shared that he takes their product teams to meet with customers four days a week. That is the recurring theme–time with customers to understand what will delight them.

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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim might set the following directional outcome: increase the average audience size for our podcast customers. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that.

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506: Everyday practical innovation – with Jerry Fix and Terry Carroll

Product Innovation Educators

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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How aligning product and marketing teams improves customer experience

Mind the Product

It’s a common-sense approach, but customer attitudes are shifting significantly, which means there’s a growing need for both teams to get each other’s backs in order to effectively deliver a seamless customer experience. It’s becoming a less and less reliable model for how customers actually engage with brands and businesses.