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Top 5 Courses for Design Managers

UX Planet

The courses listed below (both free and paid) will help you master essential tools, become a better leader, and get the very best from the UX professionals you work with. You’ll learn How to hire for, position, and empower a UX team effectively. How management of UX professionals directly affects ROI—both positively and negatively.

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How Digital Product Managers Can Perform Effective Market Research

The Product Coalition

Market research is the process of gathering information about your business's buyer personas, target audiences and customers. Market research also helps to provide a deeper understanding of the varying market factors, such as the nature of the market, the problems of the users, and the value of what you are building.

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How to get started with a competitive positioning strategy

Nulab

Of course, wasting money on an unwanted venture is the worst-case scenario. Competitive positioning is a way to assess the market, suss out your competition, and work out whether your offering is a viable means of making money. Research part 1: Qualitative research for competitive positioning. Image source.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers.

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10 Things That Would Happen if All Customer-Facing Disciplines Were Aligned to a Common View of the Customer

Product Management University

Product Marketing & Sales would operate from the same list as product management to message, market, demo and sell the value of existing solutions relative to those same goals, outcomes and obstacles. Sure, broader market research, competitive landscape, emerging technologies, etc., Is there more to it than this?

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Psychographic Segmentation in Product Marketing Strategy: The Ultimate Guide

Userpilot

It enables marketers to create better buyer personas, design more effective products, and position their brands favorably in the market. There are four primary ways of collecting psychographic segmentation data, including market research , in-app surveys , focus groups, and customer support teams.

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What Does a Product Marketing Manager Do? 8 Key Responsibilities

Userpilot

TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding. Who is a product marketing manager? A product marketing manager (PMM) is responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding.