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Why is Idea Management Important?

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But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Ideas are fleeting.

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How Product Organizations Can Balance Big Bets Versus Short-Term Wins

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Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years?

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

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You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Your understanding of the problem may have evolved based on observing customers using your product. Many other changes that don’t happen also start as an idea. You may have created a viable but incomplete solution.

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Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product: What’s The Difference?

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A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a version of the product with minimal features, built to validate product ideas. The Minimum Viable Product allows you to collect user feedback at the early stages of development and facilitates validated learning. An MVP is a very reliable way to validate your product ideas.

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How Product Organizations Can Balance Big Bets Versus Short-Term Wins

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Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years?

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11 Types of Product Managers for SaaS Companies

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We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. TL;DR A product manager oversees the entire software product development cycle, from discovery to launch and beyond. Developing and prioritizing ideas.