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How Product Managers Can Break Down Organizational Silos

ProductPlan

When we think of organizational silos that affect product management, we usually imagine the obvious ones. A product team doesn’t talk with their sales department, so they don’t know how their reps sell the product. A product manager seeks feedback only from customers, ignoring prospects who chose not buy, and as a result never learns what might turn off many of the product’s user personas.

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What we learned about product and design in 2018

Intercom, Inc.

Our conversation comes from the value we have at Intercom to continuously share the lessons we’re learning about growing our product and our team. Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: As our pace of shipping increases, it’s important to take the time to understand the difference between output and outcome. Are people using the things you shipped?

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How Predictive Analytics can add Value to Applications

Mind the Product

Every software application today is fighting for space in an increasingly crowded market, so software vendors need to differentiate their offerings with valuable features to avoid losing out to competitors. An increasing number of application teams are turning to predictive analytics as a source of competitive differentiation and additional value for end users.

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Advice for Managers of Product Managers

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Purple Squirrels and Your Product Team

Under 10 Consulting

Many product management job postings are impossible to fill. The idea is to find someone with many years of experience in product management… with a similar product… built on similar technology… in a similar domain… serving a similar market. They’re looking for a unicorn. Recruiters use another term for this: The Purple Squirrel. They’re asked to find the perfect candidate, preferable local, with a technical undergrad plus an MBA, with experience in business and technology as well as domain and

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Top Technology Blogs to Start 2019 Off Right

TSIA

To kick off the New Year, the TSIA research team wanted to share with you their best recent tech blog posts specific to their areas of industry expertise. Get a refresher on emerging trends in technology and services or catch up on what you might have missed to start 2019 with great TSIA insights!

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Dear Strategy: 072 Strategy Career Questions (Part 2 of 3)

Dear Strategy

On this week’s episode, host Bob Caporale , founder of Strategy Generation Company and author of Creative Strategy Generation , answers the following question: Dear Strategy: “How do I evaluate a job opportunity that moves me from SaaS products to on-premises products but is one of the CEO’s initiatives?”. Read The Full Blog Post. The post Dear Strategy: 072 Strategy Career Questions (Part 2 of 3) appeared first on Dear Strategy.

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The Top 10 Ways we Made dscout Better, Faster and Easier to Use in 2018

dscout People Nerds

With platform improvements big and small: here are 10 of the upgrades we’re proud to deliver from 2018.

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