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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change. Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry.

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5 Reasons Why Product Managers Need to Understand Content Management Technology

The Product Coalition

We manage everything from product launch, forecasting, planning to product marketing and sales and when things change drastically Product Managers are expected to be agile and stay on top of technology tools to save the day. when retail and in-person customer communication has transformed?—?is

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies. What it means to Run Less Software.

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6 Customer Fit Types and How to Use Them To Drive Customer Success

Userpilot

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. So, how can you determine customer fit and get the right user feedback to ensure customer success? Designing your pricing plans to attract good-fit customers.

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We Have To Support Every Line of Production Code Forever

Mironov Consulting

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    If it breaks three years from now — or has to change to work with changes in their other various systems — we’ll be expected to fix/change/adapt/improve it to meet purpose.    Far away. 

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The new dawn of Machine Learning

Intercom, Inc.

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. Building ML products requires balance – it’s pointless to start with the problem if the solution is unattainable, but you shouldn’t start with the tech if it can’t meet real customer needs. AI has been quite overhyped in the past.

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Managing Problematic Investor Ideas

Mind the Product

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.