How to Conduct an Effective Competitive Analysis
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MAY 2, 2019
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Is Product Management like Parenting?
The Product Coalition
APRIL 27, 2019
Love your Product. In a recent lecture I gave, I compared product management to parenting. While I was still preparing the lecture, I heard a similar comparison in a Product X conference I attended. It was a lecture given by Paz Davidovich named “Product managers? Congratulation! You are mother and father!”. Combining my initial thoughts with the additional inspiration, below are some reasons why the two can be compared, how the analogy can help you become a better product manager, and in which
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How product development teams can build a culture of collaboration
Miro
APRIL 30, 2019
How product development teams can build a culture of collaborationProduct development teams today are working in a changing environment: our work is becoming more distributed, and our tools for work and communication have migrated online. Not only that, but teams are highly cross-functional in nature: we are designers, developers, product managers, scrum masters.
Product Ethics
Roman Pichler
MAY 1, 2019
What is an Ethical Product? An ethical product is an offering that does not cause any harm, neither to its users nor the planet. [1] The former includes negatively impacting the people’s mental wellbeing, for example, by encouraging addictive behaviour or promoting harmful information. The latter comprises contributing to climate change by developing and providing the product.
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
6 Important Product Management Metrics (And How to Improve Them)
Gainsight
APRIL 30, 2019
As a product manager, metrics affect every move you make. You need to know the right ones to get the job done—and to prove you did it right. Today’s Product teams are under increasing pressure to deliver outstanding products and exceptional user experiences. Three new market dynamics have contributed to the evolution of our product expectations: Subscription models.
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Getting Into Product Management
The Product Guy
MAY 2, 2019
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. Watch now and see why he 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.
Is programming a must for applying Data Science?
Piyanka Jain
MAY 2, 2019
Do you need to be able to code in R, Python, or any other programming language to put Data Science to work for you? The answer is NO! Continue reading on DataSeries ».
Product Ethics
Roman Pichler
MAY 1, 2019
What is an Ethical Product? An ethical product is an offering that does not cause any harm, neither to its users nor the planet. [1] The former includes negatively impacting the people’s mental wellbeing, for example, by encouraging addictive behaviour or promoting harmful information. The latter comprises contributing to climate change by developing and providing the product.
TEI 227: IoT is coming to a product near you, maybe even yours: what product managers need to know – with Daniel Elizalde
Product Innovation Educators
APRIL 29, 2019
An IoT Technology stack and framework for product managers. More and more product managers and innovators are bumping into IoT, the Internet of Things, as part of their current or future product roadmaps. I’m seeing a convergence of product forms. In the past, we may have categorized a product as being digital, physical, or service. Now it is more common to see all three categories associated with a product.
Why Should Companies Transition Towards a “Product Operating Model”?
Technical Product Manager at GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow. She has extensive experience in the area of Product Delivery and close cooperation with development teams. In her work, she tries to implement the scrum approach.
Building v1 Efficiently
The Product Guy
APRIL 28, 2019
The best techniques on avoiding pitfalls such as over scoping, missing key use case coverage, ability to test measurably when building a new product or feature. It will include some tips and guidance on how to select what’s truly critical for version1 and building it in a reasonable timeframe. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation on this topic.
The Power of Thoughtful Research by Prakriti Parijat
Mind the Product
MAY 3, 2019
“Do you like the conference so far?” begins Prakriti Parijat of DBS Bank. After cheers from the #mtpcon Singapore crowd, she turns the response around: “What is wrong with that question?” Everyone immediately recognizes that it was a leading question. It is tempting to ask customers what they want, but you won’t get a good answer. Because what they really want is to be liked.
How to kickstart billion dollar companies
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 2, 2019
Bangaly Kaba, Instacart’s VP of Growth, knows the typical growth journey for billion dollar companies well. Instacart is valued at nearly $8 billion and since joining, he’s helped to make the company’s services available to more than 80% of U.S. households and 60% of Canadian households. And before Instacart, Bangaly was at another “Insta” (Instagram), where he helped double the photo sharing platform’s monthly users to more than 1 billion.
Product validation: making the case for internal evaluations
Userzoom
APRIL 30, 2019
Working in a UX agency means that sometimes you’ll get limited budget for an entire project or for certain parts of a project. In my time at Grapefruit I am proved time and time again that most clients will choose to reduce costs in the validation phase of a project. As designers we need to educate our clients about our desired process on a daily basis.
Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers
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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y
An Expert Product Manager’s Journey
The Product Guy
APRIL 30, 2019
Great product experts have great product journeys. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.
How to Write Effective User Personas for a Diverse Audience
Mind the Product
APRIL 29, 2019
A persona starts off with a classic formula – name, age, demographic, location – and that formula can work when you have a focused audience with specific needs. But what happens when your product is direct to consumers, and there are an awful lot of them? My career has been focused in media: I’ve worked at news organizations that have had over 20 million users a month (and some with more than 20 million users a day!).
Introducing Intercom on Product, our brand new podcast series
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 29, 2019
On this podcast, I’m going to be getting behind the mic regularly with Paul Adams , our SVP of Product, to share our latest thoughts on how to build a great product. Over the time we have worked together, Paul and I have had countless conversations about things like how to run a product org at scale , how to balance customer feedback on your product roadmap , how to spread a product-first mentality throughout a company, how to maintain design excellence in a fast growing R&D team, and
Is The Best Product Defense A Cheap Defense?
The Accidental Product Manager
APRIL 29, 2019
What should Gillette do about new cheap razors? Image Credit: lihua88. Shaving is something that men without beards or mustaches do just about every day. In all honesty, I don’t think that we spend a lot of time thinking about shaving – it’ just something that we do. Over at Gillette , since they make razors, they spend a lot of time thinking about how men shave and they have reached a startling conclusion : their products cost too much!
Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Become a Senior Product Manager
The Product Guy
APRIL 27, 2019
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
Why ProductCamp is so Valuable for Product Managers
Mind the Product
APRIL 30, 2019
I attended ProductCamp London earlier this month and it brought home to me why I get so much value from this “unconference” style of conference. So what makes the unconference style so useful? It reinforces that, in the product world, we all face similar challenges, regardless of our industry. No matter how much we talk about empowered, flat and balanced teams, many organisations still hold a single individual accountable for decision-making and priority calls.
Building Product Tours: The design process behind our onboarding tool
Intercom, Inc.
MAY 1, 2019
Every product design project is a bit like climbing a hill. You ascend the hill to gain perspective on the surrounding terrain, but you don’t know what’s on the other side – you’re figuring out how to approach the problem, and you uncover and resolve the unknowns. Once on top of the hill you have a clear view – you can see the shape of the landscape and make out the path down, you can picture what needs to be done to make progress.
B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2019
Product Management University
APRIL 30, 2019
The B2B Product Manager Magazine April 2019 is now available. If your perception of portfolio management is that it’s more advanced or involved than traditional product management, it may be time to reconsider. This month we focus on the upside of adopting a portfolio approach to product management and the strategic value it brings to your organization as well as your customers.
5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups
First Round Review
APRIL 29, 2019
After telling us to 'Give Away your Legos,' Molly Graham is back to dig deeper into tactics for handling the emotional rollercoaster of scaling startups. Here, she shares the strategies she used at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Facebook to keep her head on straight and defang three common challenging situations.
Finding A New Tool to Develop A New Product
Mind the Product
MAY 2, 2019
When you design a new product, you might need to understand a space that you’ve never explored before. You might have to ask questions you’ve never asked, and talk to people you have never talked to about things they have never seen or heard of. At digital product agency Moonshot, we frequently find ourselves in this position. It’s a first-class challenge if you’re a design research nerd like me.
13 “must measure” UX metrics for healthtech
Mixpanel
MAY 3, 2019
Digital Authority Partners helps leading healthcare organizations implement an analytics-driven culture and lends their thoughts on the metrics you should be measuring to better understand engagement on your healthcare app or site. Although the healthcare industry has been notoriously slow to embrace the digital revolution , today’s digitally savvy patients have spoken: they want healthcare at their fingertips.
Top 10 Largest Japanese Companies in 2018
freshtrax
MAY 2, 2019
Since our last article on the top 10 largest Japanese companies in 2017 , we noted a couple of surprising shifts in the list within the past year, such as Sony’s “comeback” and Mitsubishi ranking in the top 10 for the first time in a while. Again, we showcase the top 10 largest companies in Japan based on Forbes “ The World’s Largest Public Companies 2018 ” list, summarizing the rankings of the top performing Japanese companies in the world in comparison to global companies and relative to one a
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Make Friends With the Monster Chewing on Your Leg, and Other Tips for Surviving Startups
First Round Review
APRIL 30, 2019
After telling us to 'Give Away your Legos,' Molly Graham is back to dig deeper into tactics for handling the emotional rollercoaster of scaling startups. Here, she shares the strategies she used at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Facebook to keep her head on straight and defang three common challenging situations.
Tell Better Stories – Donna Lichaw on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
MAY 1, 2019
Over the course of her career, Donna Lichaw has moved from Design and UX to Product – consulting with teams, giving keynotes and working with leadership groups – but what she’s always focused on is storytelling. Now a coach – “ I just won’t help people build products, I help them build themselves,” she says – Lichaw joined us to talk about her own journey, what to look for in a coach, and how to tell a better story.
How IoT is Powering Precision Agriculture
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
MAY 2, 2019
In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss How IoT is Powering Precision Agriculture. My guest today is Ranveer Chandra, Principal Researcher, Microsoft. IoT can be a force of good to help fight some of the biggest problems in the world. That’s why I’m so excited about this episode. In this episode, Ranveer walks […]. The post How IoT is Powering Precision Agriculture appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.
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