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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

When ideas that have nothing to do with solving customers’ problems become reality, that’s a sign that something is wrong with a product team’s idea management approach. Crowdsourcing can help you collect feedback and generate ideas from diverse people and perspectives. What is crowdsourcing? Why crowdsource product ideas.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap. Here’s how we did it with a few lessons we learned along the way.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

And crowdsource ideas for future activities and let the team vote for their top picks via a poll to ensure that as many people as possible are excited about participating. Roadmap-level conversations can take things to a whole new level. In ProductPlan roadmaps, people can now ask questions and add comments within the roadmap.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1) Product managers need others to create products and this means having influence, which starts with relationships. 2) Curiosity.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the Lean Canvas is one tool I recommend to help product managers think through the business model while crafting new product concepts. How product managers can create new ideas.

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Pulse Everywhere: The Biggest Product Announcements Ever From Gainsight

Gainsight

Most strive for it, build roadmaps around it, and even sell it to prospective buyers. . One, we love our customers and dedicate a large percentage of our roadmap towards helping them achieve more with Gainsight. Product innovation – it is something that is most certainly at the tip of the tongue of every product executive.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

In an effort to get closer to Amazon’s benchmark of having 70% of the information needed, some product managers even go to nearby Starbucks to generate feedback from random patrons. And finding those are easier when you crowdsource that versus trying to talk to 10 or 20 people. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.