Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2021

You’ll still need to put a lot of time and effort into defining your outcome , setting up your product trio , creating weekly touch points with customers , and mapping the opportunity space. documentation) vs. which problems might need a software solution (i.e. Document the process. Tweet This. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

One of the barriers to high performance is creating documentation. The emotions associated with teams creating documentation, which is a conduit to sharing knowledge, were very negative. We thought about how we could shift that to a more positive experience and cut down on pain points. How could we make this passive?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need. We write a document that evolves over four to six weeks during which all of the leads from different teams contribute.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We all talk a good game about the customer being the most important thing in our business. But the truth is, as most companies scale, the customer can feel further and further away. Customer empathy is often one of the first things to suffer as companies grow from startup to scale-up. Bringing the voice of the customer to life.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. The message feels careless, and the customer loses trust.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

In a waterfall process, the product manager gathers requirements (typically from internal stakeholders ), writes up a requirements document, and hands it off to the designer. The designer then attempts to do the design work required in the requirements document. The designer gets a new requirements document.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product managers often use skills like strategic thinking, user research, product prioritization / backlog grooming, data analysis, and communication. Most importantly, effective product managers spend time doing product discovery , the process in which new ideas are iterated and validated with actual customers. Supporting onboarding.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 25, 2022

Ask the right questions to uncover your customers’ problems. He has a long history in technology products that includes Texas instruments, Logitech, AMD (where his customer was Apple), and many others. Second, understand what outcome the customer is trying to achieve. It is also seen in great friends. What is that skill?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

Less than 1% have documented competencies with scorecards for rating performance. In a recent survey, our team let us know design career paths and advancement were pain points. Many competencies we care about weren’t documented. Problem: Many competencies we care about aren’t documented.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric. This applies not only to conversations a customer may have with your sales or support teams, but even when they’re not talking to you at all – such as when they’re on your help center , searching for answers.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

If I had to make a blanket statement, it’s that most founders and product managers don’t listen enough to customers or iterate enough based on customer feedback. However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Common Pitfalls Rushing into solutions without exploring user needs derails discovery.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. Look for patterns in customer behavior, common questions, and recurring challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 27, 2020

She calls FAST goals a winning methodology as it enables you to win, solving problems and creating value for customers. 13:15] Let’s walk through an example of using FAST Goals to improve customer experience at an airport. Our top goal is to improve customer experience at the airport. Bonus Question. [35:58]

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These resources might include IT support staff who ensure the online system is functioning correctly, customer service representatives who handle inquiries, and administrative staff who manage the documentation. This platform also supports third-party integrations, enhancing its functionality and user experience.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Take this question I asked a customer in a CS kickoff call: Can you walk me through the business outcomes you hope to achieve with our product? A bad handoff leads to a bad CS kickoff, where the customer quickly realizes that promises made wont be kept. Better yet, have Customer Success Managers (CSMs) shadow multiple calls.

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2023

Your product needs to serve your customers, and a customer needs and wants analysis helps to ensure you are addressing all customer pain points. These insights can inform your product development and keep a pulse on any changes in your customer’s needs and wants. What are customer needs and wants?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” It keeps us focused and ensures that we create value for the business while meeting customer needs. said “Never.”

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2024

How do you even know if you have no clue what your ideal customer looks like? That’s why you need a customer profile template. Read on to find out the different types that make a customer profile, how you can create a customer profile template in 5 steps, and some customer profile examples.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s a progression from seeing there is a problem with your customer, to seeing there is a problem with your team’s reporting practices, and then to understanding how your organization’s decisions get made. Any process, document, report or roadmap is built by mapping data points to decisions. What you’ll learn.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It’s not just about shipping features, but about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. As we evolve toward outcomes, it’s not just about shipping features, it’s about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. We need to all work from the same starting point. These are living documents.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You might claim to have a customer-first approach to your product development strategy—but is that actually the case? While many organizations say they uphold a customer-first philosophy, sales goals often prevail. A winning product development strategy is tightly connected to understanding the customer value chain.

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UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

I mean frictionless, user-obsessed, data-driven design choices that guide your customer from just browsing to Add to Cart without ahiccup. Ever wondered why some eCommerce websites seem to effortlessly turn casual browsers into loyal customers while others struggle to keep visitors engaged?

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2024

Looking for practical customer journey analytics examples to inspire your own strategy? This guide discusses how customer journey analytics can help you understand customer interactions with your business. Create customer journey maps to outline the challenges and expectations of your customers. Book a demo !

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Userpilot

JULY 25, 2022

Customer onboarding journey maps take the guesswork out of user onboarding. With a detailed journey map, you’ll know best to onboard new users, so they experience value and reach activation quickly. You’ll also easily find friction points and optimize the user experience to drive customer success.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Book the demo! What are market gaps?

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Encourage team members to share user stories that exemplify key pain points or successes. When stakeholders are part of the synthesis process, the shared understanding of outcomes becomes more impactful than any polished presentation or lengthy documentation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

Healthcare data exchange faces several pain points, including: Pain points sharing healthcare data across the entire value chain Current Exchange Methods The current methods of data exchange in healthcare, such as SFTP, ETL, and email, have limitations and are not ideal for large-scale data exchange.:

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? Forget Your Customers, What Are Your Account Manager’s Pain Points? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So what can you actively do to give customer lifetime value a boost? In this guide, we’ll explore twelve tactics to pump this metric up—from personalizing experiences to offering proactive assistance—and see how they can help you nurture customer retention and growth. What is customer lifetime value?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the not-too-distant past, customer support was viewed as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable, part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line value that incredible customer service brings to a business – customer loyalty , retention, and advocacy to name but a few.

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