Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both

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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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Market research is the process of gathering information about your business's buyer personas, target audiences and customers. Market research also helps to provide a deeper understanding of the varying market factors, such as the nature of the market, the problems of the users, and the value of what you are building.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

So why are we still developing products no one wants? Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” While flying from the U.K.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We spot important ideas, uncover customer needs, turn concepts into products or features, and work to increase market share. Introduction: The Role of Product Managers in Innovation As product managers, we’re at the forefront of innovation in our companies. But there’s more to innovation than just creating new products.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 27, 2020

For the voice-controlled faucet, there are elements of value-based because it’s a new, exciting product that you might be able to charge a premium for, and elements of cost-plus because it’s a hardware product connected to consumer goods and services. [4:12] 6:39] Market Research. 4:45] Data Analysis.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. They also enable targeted user engagement and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Think of your product management career development as a new product that is going to be released into the market. You want to be the product that is useable, feasible and valuable to the target audience/customer ie you’re selling yourself as the solution to some specific company’s specific problem. MVP of you. ” [1.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

Consumers have lots of choices when it comes to picking a mobile application! How long does an application have to prove itself, before the user moves on to something else? As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors. Know Thy Customer—and Thy Enemy.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2023

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. He realized he was asking the wrong questions about consumers. Helps manage fraud 6.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Let’s take a look at what product development is and what are its stages. Product Development is the process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and launching a new product or service. It involves a set of activities that are performed to bring a new product or service to the market.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The criticisms raised in the article—many of which stem from anecdotal frustrations and surface-level observations—overshadow the reality of a role that has become indispensable in delivering value to customers and businesses alike. Keep the customer at the forefront while managing organizational dynamics.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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UX Studio

JUNE 27, 2024

Research helps answer tough questions, so knowing when and how to use UX research vs market research methods is crucial. In this article we answer: How can you distinguish between different types of research? What characteristics define market research vs UX research? Let’s get started.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

This holistic approach not only streamlines operations but also enhances the team's ability to deliver value to customers and stakeholders. Low Morale and Engagement : Team members may feel undervalued or disengaged if the organizational design does not support their needs or provide clear paths for professional development.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Needs are not solutions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Usability testing is an invaluable resource for UX researchers…but only if you’re able to recruit participants in the first place. This is a problem that our own UX researcher at Userpilot, Lisa, faced when she tried recruiting participants the traditional way. Recruiting usability test participants via email.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents. The future of product management will involve using more AI tools, like advanced language models and creating fake data for testing. We’ll need to keep learning as AI keeps getting better.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. It’s marketing. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2023

Develop a Rummy Game — Comprehensive Guide to Card Game App Introduction Card games have a rich and storied history, that attracts players of all ages across the globe. With the enlargement of smartphones and mobile apps, traditional card games like Rummy have found a new digital home, opening up exciting opportunities for game developers.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2024

Also, this episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976 and contributing research and knowledge to our discipline for nearly 50 years. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 5, 2021

A tool to help product managers understand what features customers value. Today we are talking about conjoint analysis, which is a tool you can use to make informed decisions about what customers value and what they will pay for. Gabor Granger: another pricing test. 7:54] How does segmentation fit in?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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