Wed.Dec 09, 2020

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How to Restore Your Creativity in 24 Hours

Modus Create

As a product designer, I’m often faced with creative challenges that require focus, energy, and dedication to solve. I love problem solving, which is why I’ve stayed in this profession for so long. On good days, I have the focus and resolve to come up with great ideas based on a complex set of information at my disposal. On good days, I am excited to sit down and crank out sketches for something really difficult.

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Product in Practice: When Travel Ground to a Halt, Seera Group Used Opportunity Mapping to Discover a New Market

Product Talk

Hi there, Product Talk readers! We can’t wait to share our latest Product in Practice with you. For this story, we spoke with a product team leading the Digital Hotels vertical at Seera Group , a travel and tourism company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The team shares how they defined a new outcome and mapped out the opportunity space when COVID-19 ground international travel to a halt in 2020 and they were forced to discover a new market.

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Evolving to Product-Led Growth in 5 Steps

Product Management University

If you’re starting a new company, building and funding it around a product-led growth model is much different than transforming a mature company that was built for direct sales and evolving it to product-led growth. First of all, you don’t have the baggage of a product portfolio that was built for direct sales. Second, you don’t have to go through the culture change and infrastructure makeover.

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Lessons from the boardroom: Karen Peacock on leadership in a crisis

Intercom, Inc.

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Last week, our CEO Karen Peacock joined a panel at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Virtual conference to discuss how boards are responding to the current moment, from the perspective not just of managing Intercom, but also from insights gleaned as a member of the board of Dropbox.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Structuring and Scaling Product Teams by Roman Pichler

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Roman Pichler, Author of How to Lead in Product Management, discusses important aspects leaders should bear in mind when structuring and growing product teams. Watch the session in full, or read on for the highlights. Empower the Product People Any successful product organisation, Roman explains, needs empowered product people.

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The story of DoorDash: How it conquered the food delivery market with first principle thinking

NextBigWhat

DoorDash went IPO and is a story of sheer execution from first principle thinking. DoorDash (fourth) cofounder, Evan Charles Moore shares the journey. On 5/29/13 (my birthday!), I filed to incorporate Palo Alto Delivery Inc., later renamed DoorDash Inc. It’s mostly not my story to tell. But I’ll share a bit today about how it started. My goal is to give aspiring entrepreneurs a window into one founding story.

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8 Things I Learned from Our Vista Announcement

Gainsight

Last week was a pretty good week. Scratch that, it was the best of my career. We announced a partnership with Vista Equity Partners, valuing Gainsight at $1.1 billion. As a result of that, pretty much everyone we’ve ever met at Gainsight reached out via email, text, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and probably Tik Tok (I’m assuming there is a Customer Success trend now) to offer their excitement.

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Product Thinking: an interview with Bain Public

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO of Bain Public will take part in a Product culture conversation focused on product-mindset and product-led growth on Input Logic's Product Thinking interview series - f eaturing regular interviews with super-sharp product managers, leaders and thinkers from a huge range of companies. About Paul Ortchanian.

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Why audio plus social is the next big idea in consumer startups

NextBigWhat

2/ Audio hits different. Listening to someone’s voice, live and unedited, is personal—the opposite of highlight-reel social media or the highly-produced, one-way nature of most podcasts. The swell of a concert, a baby’s laugh, the roar of a stadium crowd. 3/ The draw of audio over other formats is obvious to any podcast devotee: the lean-back, hands-free ease of it.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Dear Strategy 126: Testing Your Strategy

Dear Strategy

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “Is there a way to test your strategy prior to implementation?”. Visit our Blog to read the full post that goes along with this episode. Subscribe to Our Mailing List to stay up to date on all the latest episodes. If you’re interested in having Strategy Generation Company deliver a strategy workshop for your business, please visit us at [link].

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Acing product launch 101: How to create buzz around your launch with “remarkable” strategies

NextBigWhat

Strategy 3: Offer a remarkable value prop. @RobinhoodApp: “$0 commission stock brokerage”. @Dropbox: “Throw away your USB drive”. @gmail: “Free email w/ 1GB of storage”. @netflix: “No due dates, no late fees”. @WarbyParker: “Try on 5 pairs of frames at home before buying any”. Strategy 5: Start a remarkable controversy. @Quibi: Celebrity founders raise ~$2B for a pre-product video platform.

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The 2021 Product Salary Survey Is Now Live!

Amplitude

We are supposedly in a ‘golden age of product management ,’ but not that much is known about the people in the product management function. . The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics can tell you how many motion picture projectionists are employed in the U.S. ( approximately 1,000, as of 2019 ), but doesn’t track how many people work in product management. .

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ONE THING on Prioritizing Your Life

Product Culture

We've talked a lot about prioritization for companies and teams. But how do you prioritize yourself? Product people often are pulled in a million directions. Now, with so many of us working at home, that balance is even more strained. Minal Mehta, Head of Product, for YouTube's Next Billion Users, gave a talk on prioritizing your life. At work, she blocks out 2 hours every day to be "not-reactive" - not resolving other peoples' problems, but thinking about her product strategy, like analyzing th

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Customer Centricity: The Next Frontier [Webinar & Template]

Sequent Learning

No customers. No business. Simple. Right? Try this. Ask any product manager in your (B2B) company about the amount of time they spend with customers. Better yet, ask anyone in your engineering group to characterize the customers of your company. Go one step further. Get a few people from product management, engineering, and marketing in a room and discuss the most important customer insights that inform your firm’s product and portfolio strategies – and the data that supports these insights.

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Bain Public to take part in a Product Management conversation focused on Artificial Intelligence on “Get Your AI On!” podcast, by MorphL

Bain Public

?. (Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will taking part in a Product Management conversation focused on Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with MorphL - the AI platform for e-commerce. "Get Your AI On!" is a podcast hosted by Ciprian Borodescu, where founders, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and even AI researchers are invited to share their experience in dealing with business problems that can be solved through intellige

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Project Management Institute Joins Forces With airfocus

airfocus

Project Management Institute joins forces with airfocus to help project managers create clear roadmaps and strategically prioritize projects.