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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

Every connection you make is a potential solution to a problem you haven’t encountered yet. By networking, you’ll get: Crowdsourced Solutions: Instead of spending hours researching, a well-placed question within your network can offer immediate answers. Discovering freelance or consultation gigs.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). One of their key tactics was to develop an innovation strategy. They had tremendous success.

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Where the Best Ideas Come From

The Product Coalition

A new survey by the rapid consumer feedback platform Alpha sheds valuable light on the question. Here’s what they had to say: Direct customer feedback is the best source of new product and feature ideas. There wasn’t much value found in crowdsourcing either, which has become more popular in recent years.