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. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”. “The As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. Define product experience ownership.

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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. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. You’ve just built some cool new A.I.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Product managers most often reach out to me for advice when they are in the midst of contemplating their next role. As an industry, we frequently talk about the reality that there is no single definition for the responsibilities of a product manager and that product management roles differ meaningfully across companies.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For this post, I spoke with the following people: Abdeljalil (Abdel) Karam, Product Manager. Abdel started a new role as a product manager at a company that makes maps for autonomous vehicles on December 1. Andrew Skotzko, Product Director. Paolo Appley, Senior Product Manager at User Interviews.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. The relative strengths and weaknesses can be summarized as follows. Analysis depth vs. breadth. Implementation. Implementation.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. As product managers, the first principles approach enables us to attack problems from new angles, armed with sound logic. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Ask what you can use for structure.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Now hold on a minute you might say, isn’t product failure just the inevitable cost of product innovation ? Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. A product or product improvement needs to provide genuine benefits to a customer.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How product managers can move their customers to action using the StoryBrand Framework. Today we are talking about how to clearly communicate the value of a product to customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:51] If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

To avoid this mistake and ensure that your product strategy is complete, answer the following four questions: Who are the product’s users and customers? What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Setting up developer guidelines will help current and future collaborations and integrations.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 22, 2025

” Mayur literally moved his desk to whichever team had the biggest 10x upside—or downside—at that moment. Early in your career, ignore compensation differentials that don’t accelerate this fit. In most product calls there’s no right vs. wrong—only slow vs. fast.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Thats why Ive curated a list of three top product manager openings at data-driven companies, along with standout candidates who are ready to make an impact. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in data-driven product management ?

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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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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If a persona says no to both questions, users like her won’t care about this feature, even if you consider it your magnum opus or your product’s big differentiator. In other words, consider new features to be a bad idea until your organization has researched the need for them and validated that the users will need them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. The market was ripe for us to introduce a new product. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. He acknowledged that his team often slowed the momentum. We needed to deliver, not discuss.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? It gives you a way to identify your value propositions to differentiate. ??????????? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. So, as process-oriented professionals, we product managers look to the structure and predictability of a scientific approach for certainty. The desired outcomes and how to guide the team towards them. Both are needed.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

But if that skill is augmented with great product knowledge (provided by product managers) sales take off. Prospects may have all kinds of objections, and not all have to do with the product. They look at lots of different ways of achieving the solution, including your product and the products of your competitors.

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The Product Bistro

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Truth is, that these are usually the teasers that are used to get people into the dealership, and give their sales team the opportunity to up-sell. Sure, they can build, or resurrect closed production facilities, retool them to make trucks. One does not need an MBA to realize that this is a poor strategic decision. Final note.

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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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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is Technical Debt Created?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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Mind the Product

JULY 25, 2018

This year, I travelled from Berlin to Silicon Valley and interviewed 15 product management experts from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, eBay, and other companies, to learn about how they build successful products that serve millions of people every day. You want to steer the team into the greenfield area where big ideas live.

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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. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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The Product Coalition

MAY 12, 2022

In the B2B space, why can a product manager nail the customer’s need, solve the market problem in a differentiated way, have compelling results that make the case, and still hit a wall? Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with the product and everything with your customer. Now that would be a differentiator.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

Younger or smaller companies particularly those without formal research teams often fall in the lowest budget category, investing only enough to conduct limited testing or outsource one-off studies. On the other hand, companies with dedicated research teams or integrated research operations are more likely to invest six figures or more.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 20, 2025

As product managers we can change the conversation. Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. I use two characteristics to differentiate giving dictation from setting direction.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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