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Are you the first Product Manager at a company? Here's some crowdsourced wisdom for you

NextBigWhat

If you're starting as a Product Manager at a company that's never had one before, then you should find this Twitter thread super useful. The post Are you the first Product Manager at a company? The post Are you the first Product Manager at a company? Check it out, absorb the insights and bookmark it.

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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. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1)

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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. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy

The Product Manager

The post Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy appeared first on The Product Manager. These smart user-centric idea generation tactics can help you shape your roadmap around the features your users really care about.

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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). Hershey, the chocolate maker, was the last winner, in 2022.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

Making requests for things like “user permissions” left it up to our product managers to guess what we meant: While we wanted to deliver value to our upmarket customers, we were actually underplaying our hand. But in doing that, our suggestions became far too broad.

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

For instance, the engineering team uses a brain emoji to crowdsource relevant posts or documents about postmortems into #announce-postmortems, where people can stay informed about recent review meetings and their outcomes. This is why we built shared channels, to help create that deeper connection with people outside your company using Slack.