Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

The difficulties you face from going to 0 to 1understanding your customer, identifying what will differentiate your product, building early versions of that product, and actually finding customers to use it? And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

This hybrid approach offers tremendous potential for innovation, particularly in the early stages of product development. Their initial focus was on developing algorithms that could effectively analyze textual data and extract meaningful customer insights. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience. Differentiation: In a crowded market, your brands unique personality and approach set youapart.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Which benefits does the product create for the company developing and providing it? Say that I want to develop a product that helps people eat more healthily. The benefit the product should create for this user group might be to reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes. Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example. At the same time, insights from the development work are used to inform strategic decisions and help adapt the strategy. [3] These reviews help you see bigger trends.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. When we came out with the $19.99

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Instead of accepting the limitations of battery technology and electric powertrain systems, Tesla rethought the components focusing on physics — looking at things like the specific energy density of batteries and efficiency of electric motors.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Please note that the picture above depicts product discovery and product development as sets of overlapping activities rather than distinct phases or stages: Carrying out some development activities like UX design and high-level architecture as part of the discovery work sets up the development work and avoids having to use a sprint 0.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Enhanced customer satisfaction (58%).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Tech stacks are the backbone of modern sales and marketing operations. But, too often sales and marketing tech stacks are cobbled together from existing tools and workflows that have organically developed over time. They’ve spent hours reading customer reviews, checking out your pricing options and researching competitors.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

Offering an API publicly to partners and developers requires an extra level of polish. It means you want analytics, possible monetisation, a developer portal, customer support options, authentication and control. What this amounts to is often a more technically skewed assessment of whether to use an API platform to underpin your API.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Chip digs into the world of market research, exploring why it’s important, how to do it, and how to use it when developing products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Customers are mostly flexible with their car preferences due to the nature of the marketplace. Goals for AI/ML Integration Competitive Differentiation: Leveraging advanced AI/ML capabilities to create a distinctive market position that sets our solution apart from traditional automotive sales approaches. Image credit: Karena E.I

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. This trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

This approach not only gave the brand man — eventually the brand manager — ownership of a given brand, but it also allowed P&G to better differentiate the various brands in its portfolio. His new product-centric approach called for dedicated teams, focused around a particular brand, each led by a brand man.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

. – Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. I’ll do my best to update it as the technology evolves. The better we understand our customers, the better we can meet their needs, and the more we can differentiate our product from the competitors. But this is where I stand today. It’s not real.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 17, 2018

Now, let’s start designing and developing. But, you can be sure that their design will work at a technical level. The best development teams create a healthy tension between industrial design and industrial engineering. The development team compromises, such that neither the form nor function is well executed.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

. - Eric Hoffer Subscribe now What Does Transitional Intelligence (TQ) Mean for Organizations To thrive in today’s ever changing landscape, organizations and leaders must develop what Chip Conley calls Transitional Intelligence, or TQ. That’s the power of the new AI-native tech stack. Today is perfect for a lifequake.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

8 AI trends that will define product development By Greg Sterndale Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: February 12, 2025 Last update: February 10, 2025 From modular architecture to agentic AI How product development will evolve in 2025 & beyond In product development, change is the only constant.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. Designed to streamline product development workflows, third-party APIs and SDKs make up one popular and powerful category of such tools.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Arkenea

MAY 8, 2025

If you’re considering expanding your development capabilities beyond your in-house team, you’ve likely encountered the term “ nearshore software development in Mexico ” during your research. Offshore Software Development involves partnering with development teams in more distant countries.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Companies reviewing their security and privacy standards need to look at the whole landscape, taking into account all vendors and integrations, as opposed to just focusing on their own product and database. Setting up developer guidelines will help current and future collaborations and integrations.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” How will you differentiate from these?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? It consequently fails to align everyone involved in developing and providing the product. As your product develops and grows, and as the market and technologies evolve, you must adapt the product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. In order to grow new revenue streams, companies look to new product development.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

We've continued to refine our understanding of the definition of product/market fit, developed customer discovery techniques that can help guide us to product/market fit, as well as established several benchmarks to assess whether we've achieved initial fit. This is often described as developing an economic moat for your business.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

This hybrid approach offers tremendous potential for innovation, particularly in the early stages of product development. Their initial focus was on developing algorithms that could effectively analyze textual data and extract meaningful customer insights. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The reason you prioritize with these questions in mind is because you want to force development of the features that need the most eyes on it before launch. Leave login, a standard functionality, until later in the development process. There are as many moving parts in a dinner party as there are in developing software.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Yet, conversion woes werent just about technical glitches. By showcasing customer reviews and testimonials front and center, Rumi turned skeptical viewers into bona fide consumers. This technical facelift was essential to increasing conversion rates, as it reduced friction in the userjourney.

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