Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Product Differentiation AI tools can help you make your product stand out from the crowd and offer a clear reason for people to choose it over alternatives. This can be achieved in two ways: First, data mining can identify opportunities for differentiation, assuming that the relevant data exists.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

PMs are often celebrated for their vision, decisiveness, and ability to ship. But what if the real differentiator isnt having the answers… its knowing what to ask? In todays product environment, questions are your sharpest tool for uncovering user needs, guiding teams, and influencing outcomes.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Management University

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s to demonstrate that your product direction is aligned with the goals and priorities of your target customers, current customers included. It’s to demonstrate that you know how to monetize your vision and execute a strategy that grows revenue, wallet share and customer retention. Related Articles.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Note that there is no perfect business strategy—just like there is no perfect product strategy. What is your winning aspiration?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. You’ve just built some cool new A.I.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. 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. All about Obo product management software.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2019

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 18, 2018

Guest Post by: Roli Bhotika (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Zoe Feltham]. The most important lesson I learned in The Product Mentor program with Jeremy and Zoe was that Product Management has a language. Differentiator in the industry (On a scale of 1-5). 15% Differentiation.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? Product differentiation is about highlighting the features of your product that make it stand out on the market. What are its benefits?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In some cases, growth problems are caused by a limiting spotlight vision, where product organisations continue to focus on the needs of a small segment of users even when it reaches a point where it no longer yields meaningful returns. It was not only a selling point; it was a differentiator.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. 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. The leading brand cost about $150.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision development takes a few iterations.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

Pipeline, Process, and Practice for Product Managers. This is the Product Mastery Now podcast. For seven years it was called The Everyday Innovator, but I recently changed the name to better reflect our mission, which is to help you become a Product Master, creating products customers love.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Guest Post by: Sharon Allpress (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman ]. As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. Core to that balance is a diversity of skill sets and vision on the team working in alignment. But, we all work together in unison to try and make this product.”.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2018

A good product manager generally has a keen instinct for human behavior. However, the best product managers have learned how to incorporate the science of human behavior in a more rigorous way than just relying on instinct. A Good Behavioral Product Manager Applies Basic Human Behavior Principles to Product Principles.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. What’s right for my product?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. But accomplishing that is complicated, and some teams lose focus on the real objective or start without a clear vision for what they need to accomplish.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Differentiation: In a crowded market, your brands unique personality and approach set youapart. Seamless navigation, personalized product recommendations and intuitive interactions differentiate leading brands from generic alternatives. Trust: Consistency and usability across digital platforms build confidence. million to 91.7

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 11, 2017

10 common mistakes or pitfalls new product managers should avoid. A few months ago I was contacted by a product manager, Areo Wong, who works in Hong Kong. He has been struggling to learn what the role of product manager was really about. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:09]

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. You have this grand vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. Here’s a breakdown of each part. Innovation. How to rank.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Focusing on product experience allows companies to deliver more value to customers and to increase their lifetime value. A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? There are five key best practices.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope Get into the vision building mindset.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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