Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

In our Conversations with Chief Innovators series, Larry explains that business leaders are concerned because AI “exhibits behaviors we might label as bad in humans.” Top considerations for developing an AI strategy AI initiatives are not one-size-fits-all—yours should be tailored to organizational needs and strategic goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

For example, cost leadership (low prices), differentiation (uniquely desirable products and services), or focus (niche markets)—three options originally suggested by Michael Porter. Answering this question requires you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your business and the competition you face.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma. Are there capacity or incentive issues?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. A purpose we believed in.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago. And what it’s not. The Minimum Sellable Product.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Use this insight to differentiate your organization from others in the space.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. The team can still make minor changes and improvements that boost adoption, revenue, and retention while still pursuing big bets. Taking a bifurcated approach to product development and innovation is more vital than ever.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Most people and teams conflate prioritizing and sequencing of work. Going to Market You will develop a go-to-market (GTM) approach which includes multiple releases of your product. Too many teams try and use reskinned project-management tools which are helpful when sequencing instead of being helpful when shaping.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. The team can still make minor changes and improvements that boost adoption, revenue, and retention while still pursuing big bets. Taking a bifurcated approach to product development and innovation is more vital than ever.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Human-First Customer Success.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. To differentiate yourself in a crowded market, ease of use is only part of the equation. Brian: It’s a huge challenge to get teams to do this and to do it well. We know firsthand how hard it is.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To establish the Product Vision, I recommend taking time as a Product team to reflect both on the past and on the future. How can you empower the Product team and cross functional stakeholders to think big? How can you empower the Product team and cross functional stakeholders to think big? What ground has been covered?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud? It failed because we weren’t all-in, not because the product was bad, but because the go-to-market model was completely wrong.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Written Methods.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. In my portfolio lifestyle, I work with both big organisations that want to develop more innovative products and startups that are innovating from the ground up.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this webinar, leading product development consultant , coach, and trainer Sari Harrison shows how to go beyond conventional metrics to understand whether you’re delivering value to users by helping them make their lives better. A strategy should differentiate you. I love these.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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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. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Define your ideal customer profile.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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