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How to lead with commitment

Lead on Purpose

I recently became aware of a CEO who believes he’s a great leader. He’s smart with a solid educational background, and he has the charisma to do great things.

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Get Your Team Experimenting More by Using One Little Word…

Mind the Product

For me, as for many, the idea of applying a scientific approach (experiments, hypothesis, etc) to product management came from Eric Ries in Lean Startup. In many ways, the concept was a game changer in how to approach validating product ideas and getting to product market fit. Over the last few years, the idea of using hypotheses that are tested and measured has become accepted in organisations of all sizes, from startups to global corporates.

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Hiring the Right Product Manager

Product Management University

When it comes to hiring the right product manager, there’s no foolproof technique. Treat it like you’re shopping for a product. You have a set of needs. There are obstacles to meeting those needs, and you’re going to shop for a person who can best remove those obstacles. The situational interview will quickly separate the contenders from the pretenders.

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Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break

Nir Eyal

Until recently, when I needed a break I’d grab my phone. Whether I was bored, mentally fatigued, or just wanting a pick-me-up, I felt relief checking the news, Facebook, or Instagram. However, new research suggests there are good ways and not-so-good ways to spend our break time. While some breaks can leave us refreshed and […]. The post Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break appeared first on Nir and Far.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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A Certain Ratio – Bringing the Donuts 03/27/2017

Ken Norton

What's the ideal number of engineers for every PM? -. I spend a lot of time with startups, and a good portion of that time helping them think through organizational questions. One of the most common questions I get from growing startups is, what’s the ideal ratio of engineers to product managers? (A different kind of P/E ratio.

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How To Price Your Product Correctly

The Accidental Product Manager

Setting the right price can determine if your product will be a success Image Credit: Allen. When I talk with product managers, over and over again I hear that the one task that they all fear the most is setting a price for their product. I’m not 100% sure why this is such a big deal. I guess the obvious answer is that a lot of us feel that if we do this incorrectly, it will heavily contribute to our product being a failure.

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Never forget the 80% user

The Product Coalition

How many times have you seen this?—?a product is insanely popular due to its simplicity and everyone cannot stop talking about how easy it is to get that one job done. Over time the product evolves to do more jobs by reacting to growing needs from customers. It is now a lot more powerful. For the power user, that is. The typical user, however, struggles to accomplish that one job in a few quick seconds?

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How Product Monopolies Can Hurt Tech Companies

Amplitude

Establishing a monopoly — near-total domination of a market — may seem like the ultimate marker of success. You’ve edged out your competitors, and have the ubiquitous product in your sector. But having a wildly successful product can be dangerous. It can take your focus away from product development, and shift time and attention towards beating competitors and securing your business with sales and marketing.

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User Research – Making it Work in Government – Katy Arnold (ProductTank London)

Mind the Product

Katy Arnold, Head of User Research and Design at The Home Office, talks to ProductTank London about making User Research Work in Government. The civil service has traditionally been focussed on moving paper. The Digital team at the Home Office’s remit is to help the rest of the organisation move towards a more digitally enabled way of working. It has its origins in Martha Lane Fox’s oft quoted ‘Revolution not evolution’ report which also led to the establishment of the Government Digital Service

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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What distinguishes the Top 1% of Product Managers from the Top 10%?

B2B Product Management

The top 1% PMs use frameworks. Frameworks are a tool for systematic decision making. Frameworks help you repeat your decision making process across other seemingly similar problems. The top 1% PMs have frameworks for everything – for valuing companies, for assessing the market, for prioritizing requirements, for translating vision into execution, for pricing the product etc.

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Where is the Line Between Products and Services?

TSIA

The rate of change and disruption in technology has quickly caused a blurring of the line between products and services. Where does the product stop and the service of the product start? Customers honestly don’t care, they just want a better customer experience and a lower effort to achieving their goals with their purchase. The long-standing silos between support organizations and other business units (consulting, engineering, field services, education services, sales, etc.) are one of th

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Customer Discovery Series Part III: Leveraging the Power of Influencing Without Authority

Product Manager in Heels

Influence without Authority - it's one of the hardest things about being a Product Manager. Recently, Martin Erikkson wrote a blog post titled "Product Managers are not the CEO of anything". I loved this post because I am a firm believer in that statement and many of the other statements in the post itself. You can find the post on Mind the Product (it provides great content).

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User Research Tools and Methodologies – Morag McLaren (ProductTank London)

Mind the Product

Morag McLaren Product Manager at Whatusersdo.com talks to ProductTank London about User Research Tools and Methodologies. The Context & Timing of Research Changes the Results you get. You need to find out the context of any insight you are gaining about a user – otherwise you won’t know the why or how, just the what. The timing of the research you run is also key – when you view a user’s behaviour will hugely impact the results you find.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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What distinguishes the top 1% Product Managers from the rest?

B2B Product Management

The top 1% PMs use frameworks. Frameworks are a tool for systematic decision making. Frameworks help you repeat your decision making process across other seemingly similar problems. The top 1% PMs have frameworks for everything – for valuing companies, for assessing the market, for prioritizing requirements, for translating vision into execution, for pricing the product etc.

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Welcome New TSIA Members! March Edition

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping services organizations both large and small grow and advance in the technology industry. We'd like to take the opportunity to welcome our newest members, as well as acknowledge companies already a part of the TSIA community who have recently expanded their membership to include additional service disciplines TSIA has to offer.

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A Certain Ratio – Bring the Donuts 03/27/2017

Ken Norton

What's the ideal number of engineers for every PM? -. I spend a lot of time with startups, and a good portion of that time helping them think through organizational questions. One of the most common questions I get from growing startups is, what’s the ideal ratio of engineers to product managers? (A different kind of P/E ratio.

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Product Management Tools in Everyday Life – Oisin Zimmermann (ProductTank Oslo)

Mind the Product

When you first start building a product you have a lot of decisions to make. You have to figure out what to build, what to build first , and know how to explain your decisions to both yourself and your team. As the ball starts rolling, keeping track of what to deliver and when as well as measuring the impact of the releases can be overwhelming. Oisin Zimmermann talks about the tools he’s used to set up a new product team.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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What’s not so good about being a product manager?

B2B Product Management

There are a few things that are not so good about being a Product Manager: 1. Getting things done from people you do not have authority over : A PM role is a highly cross-functional role. It requires you to work with many people across multiple groups. As a PM, you have to keep the needle moving on your tasks. So you have to get the work done from these team members without having a real authority over them.

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Top Technology Industry Trends to Watch in 2017 [SlideShare]

TSIA

At TSIA, we are dedicated to helping technology and services organizations of all sizes stay on top of the latest best practices for growing and advancing their businesses. Each year, our research team publishes their "State of" reports on developing trends affecting their respective areas of research to serve as a guide for achieving success in the coming year and beyond.

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Foreword to the book Product Leadership

Ken Norton

My foreword to Product Leadership, by Banfield, Eriksson and Walkingshaw -. My friend Martin Eriksson asked me to write the foreword to his book, Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams, co-authored with Richard Banfield and Nate Walkingshaw. Here’s what I wrote: “So you’re the one who decides what color a box of detergent should.

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Product Camp: Getting Promoted to Director

Mironov Consulting

Attendees of Product Camp Silicon Valley 2017 voted up this talk on “ Getting Promoted to Director.” We had an energetic discussion, including several real-work-life examples of senior product managers who were thinking about the next job up; or had already talked with their managers about promotional opportunities; or who may have accidentally set hard deadlines for roles that may not be open in time.

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Maximize Supply Chain Spend & Asset Utilization with Innovative Test Automation

Connected devices are emerging at an explosive rate exerting pressure on larger operators; however, some organizations cannot continue to purchase the latest & greatest devices without ramifications. The introduction of automated test technology drives the optimization of supply chain expenditures leveraging forward & reverse logistics paths. Adopting innovative test automation tools addresses these challenges by providing robust solutions for testing the interoperability, performance, & securit

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From Kickstarter to LostArts, Charles Adler’s mission is creative fulfillment

dscout People Nerds

Adler discusses the art of being in service of people and cultivating human potential.

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Transcripts: Pro tips

UserTesting

Earlier this month we announced our newest feature, Transcripts. The feature automatically transcribes verbal comments from user tests and appear right alongside videos, making reviewing videos and gaining valuable insights faster and easier than ever before! . Now that many … The post Transcripts: Pro tips appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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A Certain Ratio – Bring the Donuts 03/27/2017

Ken Norton

What's the ideal number of engineers for every PM? -. I spend a lot of time with startups, and a good portion of that time helping them think through organizational questions. One of the most common questions I get from growing startups is, what’s the ideal ratio of engineers to product managers? (A different kind of P/E ratio.

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Imagine What a Rock Star Product Manager Could Do With Healthcare Reform

Product Management University

Put all your political leanings aside. This is about pure, practical, common-sense, good old-fashioned problem solving skills and how they lead to great solutions! The famous words of Charles Kettering, “a problem well stated is half solved” have never rang truer! There are so many parallels between a high-profile government program like healthcare reform and every product management fundamental ever conceived, a thought occurred to me: How great would the solution be if a rock-star product mana

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

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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Foreword to the book Product Leadership

Ken Norton

My foreword to Product Leadership, by Banfield, Eriksson and Walkingshaw -. My friend Martin Eriksson asked me to write the foreword to his book, Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams, co-authored with Richard Banfield and Nate Walkingshaw. Here’s what I wrote: “So you’re the one who decides what color a box of detergent should.

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Transcripts: Pro tips

UserTesting

Earlier this month we announced our newest feature, Transcripts. The feature automatically transcribes verbal comments from user tests and appear right alongside videos, making reviewing videos and gaining valuable insights faster and easier than ever before! . Now that many … The post Transcripts: Pro tips appeared first on UserTesting Blog.