Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

The path from IC to Chief Product Officer isn’t just about gaining more responsibility it’s about transforming how you think about product development, team leadership, and business strategy. Over ten years, she rose through the ranks until everyone in the company reported to her.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

You can gather all the user feedback or behavioral data you want or even generate tons of Google Analytics reports. Despite all these efforts, you’re probably still not acting on product analytics correctly. Why actionable product analytics are important. But why bother fixing it?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Do You Need a Strategy for Your Product?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] 2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither a product discovery expert in the sense discussed below nor do I fully endorse the specific approaches created by Marty and Teresa.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

We explored the 19 essential activities that define successful software product management today. He emphasized the importance of role clarity and how the lack of it often leads to frustrated product managers leaving their positions.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

In this post, were exploring the conversation we had in one of our Productside Stories episodes this season with Joeri Devisch , a veteran of product, technology, and transformation work at global companies. Joeri emphasizes that data and intuition are not oppositestheyre collaborators. Data + context = better decisions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When your company adopts multiple SaaS solutions to drive productivity, you unknowingly create a perfect storm for data fragmentation. Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Sound familiar?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A framework for product launch success Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I interview James Whitman, author of LAUNCH Code and founder of Growth Guidepost. James shares insights from his research studying companies that consistently launch successful products.

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Reveal

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Reveal Embedded Analytics For product owners, leveraging data is not just an advantageits a necessity. Product analytics empowers you to understand gaps in your offering and how users engage with your product. Both embedded analytics and product analytics are designed to help product owners in diverse ways.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy Discovery Explained What is product strategy discovery? More precisely, it is the process of developing a product strategy whose implementation will likely create the desired value and impact.

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Reveal

JUNE 24, 2025

Reveal Embedded Analytics Today’s business users expect more than static dashboards or delayed reports. They want to explore live data, uncover insights, and take action in real time. However, delivering that experience inside a software product or platform is not easy.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

From handling feature requests that lack customer validation to managing unrealistic expectations, we’ll discuss practical strategies to maintain alignment and avoid common pitfalls. Through these insights, you’ll be better equipped to handle the pressures of managing up and leading your product toward success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2021

It requires meaningful collaboration between researchers and data scientists. It requires thought and intentionality around how we store, handle, interpret, and leverage vast quantities of qualitative and quantitative data. And it requires answering the right questions using insights and evidence.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Most SaaS product teams are actively working on weaving AI-powered analytics into their products. But before you do, let’s take a closer look at what analytics insights can do for your product, and pick the strategy, format, and tools to get the job done right.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

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: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

In a fast-paced industry like SaaS, leveraging business analytics effectively can be the key to staying competitive and driving product growth. Business analytics offers invaluable insights that help SaaS companies optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and make data-driven decisions.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 17, 2025

This month’s roundtable brought together a powerhouse panel to explore one of the biggest challenges in product careers today: How do you grow, scale, and stay effective across radically different company environments? Before we dive into the highlights… Want the full, enhanced recap with strategy tools you can use right now?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2023

Empowering Product Managers with Data-Driven Strategies In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the role of a Product Manager has evolved beyond mere product delivery to orchestrating experiences that align seamlessly with both customer needs and overarching business goals.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Do I push back?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2024

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a powerful strategy that has revolutionized the SaaS and tech industries. By placing the product at the center of the growth strategy, PLG drives customer acquisition, conversion, and retention through exceptional product experiences.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. .

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

” Solution-centric data : “We’re making great progress; we’ve implemented 50 more user stories, and velocity is up by eight points!” ” Sadly, the data above is not helpful to see clearly how much value the product is creating. 2 Wrong Product KPIs. This often leads to too much data being gathered.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The Rules Are Blocking Your Progress These so-called “best practices” promise structure and alignment, but they often trap teams in a cycle of predictability and prevent breakthroughs. We know roadmaps provide structure, alignment, and predictability. OKRs should serve the strategy, not dictate it.

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Reveal

JUNE 27, 2025

Reveal Embedded Analytics Your engineering team is shipping fast. It’s often still stuck in a silo, delivered through disconnected tools, legacy portals, or time-consuming handoffs. Users are forced to leave your software to access insights, adding friction when insights should be immediate. Your UX is evolving.

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Productside

JULY 10, 2025

Strategy: Outcome over Output Roadmaps crowd-sourced from stakeholder wish lists = strategy theater. Strategy prompt “Act like my product-strategy coach. AI turns raw data into a story arc in seconds. Dry note: “Added smart filters to dashboard.” Inject stakes and resolution.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Using analytics, one can capture actual behavior of customers, ask targeted questions, collect accurate feedback, and repeat the process with much less effort next time. Also, once the analytics process is set up, it is easy to monitor unlike traditional surveys in which one needs to repeat the entire process from scratch.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Meet Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager at Airship. Lisa says, “We led with ‘What can we predict?’

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

The competencies vary as you grow in the product organization from a Junior PM role to a VP, Products. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., Product Strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

Coming up with a set of tools to capture important strategic decisions reminded me of treasure maps: It should guide you to product success, bearing in mind that not all treasure is silver and gold, as Captain Jack Sparrow put it. The map below shows the strategy tools I find helpful to make effective product strategy decisions.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Dont miss Rachels insights.

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