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Business Intelligence vs. Customer Analytics: Why You Need Both

Indicative

Data is the most valuable asset of our time. But organizations of all sizes are struggling to tap into the full potential of the information that they collect. Part of the challenge is that the language of data isn’t always intuitive to our very human minds. So, we rely on software, spreadsheets, and statistical packages to make our best judgment calls.

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Enabling Fast Decisions

Ask Benny

The best hack for making good decisions fast is not needing to take them at all Empower to be Empowered In Make Yourself Redundant I explained why as a produ.

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Agile Development and Willie Nelson

The Product Coalition

How agile software development and country singer Willie Nelson share the same principles Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

This weekend I had the opportunity to read Ashlee Vance's Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. I've been a huge fan of Elon Musk since the early days of SpaceX and knew I wanted to dive deeper into the story of both SpaceX and Tesla. The book did not disappoint: it was a fascinating history starting from his childhood, to his early startup adventures with Zip2 and PayPal, to a deep dive into how he willed SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity into existence and ultimately to su

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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A Product Coaching Framework to Foster Product Thinking

Mind the Product

At Founders Factory we’ve created and implemented a framework for our product coaching practice based on the hypothesis I wrote about in Mind the Product last year for why product thinking needs to be the future of product management and why product coaching is how we get there. We’ve gathered data from over 20 coachees and started a Slack channel to discuss product coaching with the wider product community.

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The State of User Research Report 2020

UserInterviews

We asked over 300 user researchers what their research practices looked like, how their teams were laid out, what they earned, and what made them feel most effective at work.

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Making Design Sprints work for remote teams

Miro

Making Design Sprints work for remote teamsDesign Sprints are tricky enough with everyone in one room. How can they be done remotely? We’re here to share our proven framework, used dozens of times at JustMad.Note: We assume you’re familiar with the four-day version of the Design Sprint. If not, go ahead and check out this […]. The post Making Design Sprints work for remote teams appeared first on MiroBlog | A blog by Miro.

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Jobs to be Done by Joe Leech

Mind the Product

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, using a simple example, Joe Leech demonstrates how we can employ the “Jobs to be done” framework, deconstructing company outputs and examining the importance of user stories. Key Points: Evaluate the competitive space. Don’t just think function – emotional and social job stories are significant. You can’t rely on users to do your selling.

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Management Managing

The Product Guy

There are 2 types of challenges with senior leaders. Understanding their perspective and the right communication can help everyone get what they are looking for. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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Managers, Take Your 1:1s to the Next Level with These 6 Must Reads

First Round Review

1:1s aren't just line-items on every manager's to-do list—it's critical to make sure these weekly meetings are as impactful and effective as possible. Here's a collection of tactical tips from the Review archives to help you take meetings with your direct reports to the next level.

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The Importance of Learning in Product Management

ProductCraft

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein As a product manager at AvidXchange, a payment automation software company, I have often observed the importance of continuous learning in product management. In fact, success in product management is often due to one’s innate curiosity and desire to learn. Thankfully, the.

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Cognitively Diverse Teams – Live from MTP Engage Manchester – Rakhi Rajani on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

At MTP Engage Manchester (February 2020), Rakhi Rajani (Associate Partner at QuantumBlack ) joined us for our first-ever live podcast recording. Talking to Rakhi we learned why Engage organiser Adam Warburton called her the smartest person he’s ever worked with as we discussed building teams, hiring at scale, when you need troublemakers, and why she had recruiters ask candidates what their teachers said about them at parent/teacher evening.

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Precision in the Language of Messaging

Pragmatic Marketing

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. Div Manickam , director of portfolio messaging for Dell subsidiary Boomi , discussed subtle but significant differences in product marketing lexicon during an AMA on the evolution of product and solutions marketing to portfolio messaging.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Minimalism vs Brutalism: which one to choose?

Imaginary Cloud - Design

Why is Minimalism the UI Design prodigal son? What's wrong with its rebellious, up to no good brother, Brutalism ? When comparing these two many questions still arise. Has brutalism become mainstream? Did it cure the supposed lack of creativity pandemic carried by the minimalist style trend? Is it ok to call minimalism a trend? Is one better than the other?

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. As consumers have raised their expectations of what they want out of digital and physical products and services, companies have had to act on those increased demands or risk losing their business with little chance such business ever returns.

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Throw Less Spaghetti, Make More Stick by Devan Goldstein

Mind the Product

When growth work looks like product work, growth-team problems look like product-team problems. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Devan Goldstein , then Growth Product Lead at Dropbox , shows us how using product themes can help to focus growth teams. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key points: How growth teams and product teams should work together.

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Precision in the Language of Messaging

Pragmatic Marketing

When awash with data and metrics, it’s easy for a product marketer to overlook precision in using the language of messaging. Div Manickam , director of portfolio messaging for Dell subsidiary Boomi , discussed subtle but significant differences in product marketing lexicon during an AMA on the evolution of product and solutions marketing to portfolio messaging.

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How To Manage Multiple Product Teams For Successful Development & Delivery

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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Metrics that matter to Mad Paws: The KPIs to measure growth of a two-sided marketplace

Mixpanel

In Australia, about 65% of households share one common problem: finding a safe, loving and affordable space for household pets to be boarded and cared for while families go on holiday. Mad Paws , founded five year ago, solves that problem with a two-sided marketplace described by Australian media as the “Airbnb for pets.” Along with affordable pet boarding provided by insured pet sitters, Mad Paws provides other services for pet owners such as dog walking and pet sitting.

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100+ User Testing Questions, From Idea Generation to Usability Tests

UserInterviews

Shamelessly steal these 100+ user research questions (categorized by test method) while learning how to write better questions for each project you undertake.

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How do you Build a Winning Product Team?

Mind the Product

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success. Choose a Diverse Group of People. In his 2019 #mtpcon London talk – High Performing Teams , Richard Banfield discussed a variety of things that help to drive success in product

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Shelley Perry explains that there would be more hyper-growth companies if they had a Chief Product Officer

ProductBoard

8220;Having a qualified Chief Product Officer that is able to address real-time business challenges, be a change agent and role model, speak the language of finance to peers in the C-Suite, and lead their team through execution results in hyper-growth and profitability for companies, especially during the ScaleUp phase.” Around 2013, SaaS ScaleUp expert Shelley Perry began to notice a.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Planning Ahead: How Far Should the Road(map) Go?

ProductCraft

As Lewis Carroll famously said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” While this quote certainly wasn’t said in reference to digital products, it’s an accurate representation of the importance of product roadmaps. A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out the vision and direction of. Read more » The post Planning Ahead: How Far Should the Road(map) Go?

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Opportunity Canvas 2.0

The Product Coalition

My trimmed-down version of the Opportunity Canvas I’m a huge fan of Jeff Patton’s work and for years I’ve used his Opportunity Canvas ?—?I highly rate it! But over time I’ve often run into very similar friction points with it. The canvas is quite big and it can be a big ask to make people fill it out when coming up with new opportunities across the organization.

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Stories From the ProductTank Community – Auckland, New Zealand

Mind the Product

Auckland ProductTank organiser, Anthony Marter , reveals what it’s like to be a product person living in the future at the end of the earth. What is it that motivates you to run ProductTank meetups? Altruistically – building the product management capacity of New Zealand, which we’ve identified as being a gap that’s holding our industry back from being more successful globally.

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productboard recognized on the 2020 Enterprise Tech 30

ProductBoard

Private enterprise tech companies are driving business growth and innovation globally, but unlike public companies or their B2C counterparts, it can be difficult to tell which have real momentum and business potential. What if enterprise technology had something like a coaches poll in collegiate sports, but where the most respected venture capitalists submitted their top picks for the most.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr