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Sales Channel Considerations

The Product Bistro

One advantage of my many career stops, and the multitude of different industries I have been associated with is the wide range of experience with different sales organization structures. When you are putting together a business, the sales channel is one of the crucial early decisions to make, and your early choices can have lasting ramifications on your long term business.

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What 671 million push notifications say about how people spend their day

Andrew Chen

Push notifications are a cornerstone of every mobile app’s engagement and retention strategy, yet we know so little about them. Previously I’ve written about why 60% of users opt-out of push notifications and why some pushes are getting 40% CTRs. Today, we’ll look at some push notification data from Leanplum , a mobile marketing automation tool, which breaks down 671 million pushes to uncover some interesting trends, particularly on time of day targeting for push notifications

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How Do You Become A Good Product Manager?

Street Smart Product Manager

This is the BIG question, isn’t it? We all want to be the best at what we do. And product managers are no different. We want to be good. Great. Awesome. And we want to be recognized for it! We want to launch products people love. We want customers to love it. Our company’s to […]. The post How Do You Become A Good Product Manager? appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Being Your True Self – Bringing the Donuts 05/17/2016

Ken Norton

Does authenticity matter in the workplace? -. Update: Make sure to read the follow-up with other perspectives from readers. I’ve written about Google’s research showing that psychological safety was the most predictive characteristic of successful teams. Psychological safety requires authenticity. As The New York Times Magazine put it: No one wants to put on a “work face”.

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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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IoT Product Management at Stanford University

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

By 2020, it’s estimated that 50 billion devices—from smartphones to kitchen appliances and well beyond—will be connected to the Internet. This phenomenon is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). With this kind of explosive growth, consumer and industrial companies alike are seeking a new breed of business and technology professionals who can make the unique strategic decisions that IoT […] The post IoT Product Management at Stanford University first appeared on Daniel Elizalde.

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Why and how I transferred my career from finance to product management

The Product Coalition

After college, I worked in financial services industry. Colleagues around me love what they are doing, and many people are trying to get into it. I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects.

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Open innovation 2.0–and other innovation insights for product managers May 20, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Henry Chesbrough, father of open innovation, shares how open innovation has evolved. Chesbrough wrote his Open Innovation book in 2003. In this article he shares what has been happening in open innovation since then and why it is still important today: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601459/striving-for-innovation-success-in-the-21st-centur

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Stanford Continuing Studies Course: Product Management for the Internet of Things

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

My course, Product Management for the Internet of Things, at Stanford Continuing Studies expands on my IoT Decision Framework and focuses on all the areas you need to consider when building an IoT product. Next course starts on January 11th. Class fills up fast! Subscribe to be notified when registration opens. To register for the class, […]. The post Stanford Continuing Studies Course: Product Management for the Internet of Things appeared first on Tech Product Management.

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Weekly Round Up – 29th May 2016

Product Club

Every day the Product Manager Club brings you the best product management, product marketing and product design reads from across the web. We do the hard work collating all of the best content and articles so that you don’t have to – it’s all a part of our efforts to grow a thriving product community. We hope you enjoy! The Fundamental Tension in Product – Well damn Dan Schmidt, just when I thought every article under the sun had been written on product management or re-s

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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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5 reasons why caring for the business model makes great product managers 

Product Warrior

What is the product manager role? The standard startup answer is “to be the CEO of the product”, larger enterprises seem to prefer “the glue between all the business functions that delivers a product the users want”, while others define it as “the person accountable for what the product does”. I don’t disagree with any of these definitions, however all of them feel full of ambiguity and fail to really answer the question.

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Successful product consultants: What are the secrets to being (and finding) one?

DISQO

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. But impacting the organization from the outside is not without its challenges. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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[SlideShare] Digging Economic Moats for Your XaaS Business

TSIA

Last week, I attended Gainsight's Pulse 2016 conference and had the honor of presenting as a keynote speaker, as well as facilitating panel discussions with industry leaders. In my main stage keynote, "Digging Economic Moats for Your XaaS Business," I shared a few concepts from TSIA's new book, Technology-as-a-Service Playbook: How to Grow a Profitable Subscription Business , specifically how SaaS and other subscription companies need to evolve their business and financial models

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Comment on MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager by Laure

Product Club

Thank you, Brandon! This quote basically sums up why we started Notion: “Being able to independently gather data is vital to making quick decisions. For all but the most involved analyses, relying on someone else to get data for you is not only an inefficient use their time, but it also doesn’t lead to insights, because anyone who’s been an analyst before knows that insights come through iterative exploration of data, not some perfect report you dream up.” It can be a challenge to ow

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Being Your True Self – Bring the Donuts 05/17/2016

Ken Norton

Does authenticity matter in the workplace? -. Update: Make sure to read the follow-up with other perspectives from readers. I’ve written about Google’s research showing that psychological safety was the most predictive characteristic of successful teams. Psychological safety requires authenticity. As The New York Times Magazine put it: No one wants to put on a “work face”.

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Successful product consultants: What are the secrets to being (and finding) one?

DISQO

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. But impacting the organization from the outside is not without its challenges. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Behind the Research: Service Revenue Generation

TSIA

At TSIA, we provide technology and services businesses with the insights they need to grow, advance, and achieve their desired outcomes in our rapidly evolving industry. At the heart of this in-depth research are TSIA's research executives , who keep their fingers on the pulse of what's new and what's next in technology and services in order to deliver compelling content, best practices, and tools to our members.

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Road Maps: Involving Business in the Journey

Product Club

The first time I wanted to socialize a product road map within the business (a software start up with under 50 employees) I scratched for information on best practice or recommended approaches. I wanted to communicate the right stuff to the right people. As such, this post is a practical piece on exactly that: how I’ve shared a road map internally, and why.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Being Your True Self – Bring the Donuts 05/17/2016

Ken Norton

Does authenticity matter in the workplace? -. Update: Make sure to read the follow-up with other perspectives from readers. I’ve written about Google’s research showing that psychological safety was the most predictive characteristic of successful teams. Psychological safety requires authenticity. As The New York Times Magazine put it: No one wants to put on a “work face”.

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Successful product consultants: What are the secrets to being (and finding) one?

DISQO

As organizations expand the scope of how they approach innovation, product consultants and user experience consultants have emerged as powerful forces in that initiative. But impacting the organization from the outside is not without its challenges. Alpha recently teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Project Ara: Co-creation Research at Scale

dscout People Nerds

Talking dscout and participatory design with the original design chief of Google’s Project Ara.

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Cut The Crap And Build With Empathy

Product Club

Our b t radars are at an all time high these days. We can sense a lack of authenticity from a mile away. Especially when it comes to the content we engage with or the products we use. That’s why it seems like anything that has a hint of authenticity takes off these days. In many ways, authenticity may be the ultimate scarce good nowadays. We’re all being sold stuff at unprecedented levels.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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11 ways to generate evidence-based growth experiment ideas

UserTesting

Today’s post is an excerpt from our eBook, the product manager’s guide to customer-centered growth. Enjoy! There are two approaches to growing a product. You A/B test a handful of tactics you think will work based on your opinion, … The post 11 ways to generate evidence-based growth experiment ideas appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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What are the secrets to being (and finding) a successful product consultant?

DISQO

Organizations are expanding the scope of how they approach innovation, and product and user experience consultants have emerged as a powerful force in that initiative. But impacting the organization from the outside is not without its challenges. Alpha teamed up with Product School to host an event featuring some of the most prominent product consultants in New York.

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Low-Anxiety Launching

dscout People Nerds

A guide to eating your own dog food with product research—and surviving it.

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MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager

Product Club

You’ve probably seen this diagram before. It elegantly shows that product management is the intersection of a diverse skill set. Originally from [link]. Its simplicity has made it one of the most successful product management memes out there, and it’s done good things for the discipline. Long ago, as a young PM padawan, it helped me realize that I needed to structure my learning for breadth.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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A day in the life of: Jason Amunwa, Director of Product and Marketing

UserTesting

Name: Jason Amunwa. Location: San Diego. Official title: Director of Product and Marketing. Company: Digital Telepathy. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you do for Digital Telepathy now. For a while, I’ve been Director of Products here … The post A day in the life of: Jason Amunwa, Director of Product and Marketing appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Friends and Family… What the 'FUX'?

dscout People Nerds

How to nail your first-time user experience—from launching to scaling.

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Art Center x dscout

dscout People Nerds

Design students dive into dscout’s version of digital ethnography.

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