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What is a Digital Product?

Roman Pichler

Product. What is a product ? It might be tempting to say, something we can market or sell. But when it comes to digital products, this definition has only limited applicability. Take the search function on your company’s website. Is that a product? Or is the entire website the product? And how would others, including people from development, marketing, and sales, answer this question?

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3 Observations on Microsoft's Acquisition of LinkedIn

Sachin Rekhi

We all woke up this morning to incredible news on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2B, or $196 per share, a 50% premium over the previous LinkedIn stock price. While many have already remarked on this bold move by Satya Nadella and what this could mean for both Microsoft and LinkedIn’s respective businesses, I wanted to share three observations on larger trends this embodies across our industry.

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TEI 076: Effectively pitching your ideas and influencing others – with Nancy Duarte - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

The 2016 Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey identified four skills that are responsible for a significant increase in personal income. Product managers that excel in these four areas earn 25% more than product managers who don’t. One of these skills is called “pitch artist” and is defined as, “the ability to stand up to peers, managers and executives and sell them your ideas and conclusions.” When it comes to being a pitch artist — effectively comm

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2 Certification Best Practices for Education Services Organizations

TSIA

In my last blog post , I talked about how education services organizations can use certification programs as part of their customer adoption strategy. Now that you know more about the role certification can play in keeping your customers engaged with your content, it's worth evaluating how your current certification program stacks up based on industry best practices, or if you do not yet have a certification program, looking into how you can get started.

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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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Why the C-list Has Never Been Cooler for Those Driving Digital Transformation

TIBCO - Thought Leadership

Fans of the UK Channel 4’s “IT crowd,” will be familiar with the IT department of the fictional Reynholm Industries, buried deep in the company’s basement with a pre-recorded message to turn the computer off and on again as a default response to anyone who bothers them with an IT query. As with all the best comedy, it’s a scenario grounded in reality, highlighting the shortfall in visibility and communication around IT, which has done little to promote broader understanding and engagement across

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Scaling Lean–and other innovation insights for product managers June 17, 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. . New book for learning how to apply Lean Startup practices – Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya. Since finding Ash’s first book and his related training materials at LeanStack.com, I have been a fan of his work.

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A Real-World Example of Customer Success: How We Do It at TSIA

TSIA

At TSIA, we provide hundreds of technology and services organizations with the latest best practices, research, and frameworks they need to grow and succeed in a changing market, and a lot of this research ties directly into the rapidly growing area of customer success. To give you an inside look at how we apply the same business recommendations we give our members to our own operation, I've asked TSIA's VP of Member Success, Andrew Cromey, to explain how TSIA handles customer success, o

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Putting a Finger on Our Phone Obsession

dscout People Nerds

Mobile touches: a study on how humans use technology.

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Customer Discovery Series Part I: The Role of Product Management

Product Manager in Heels

What does a Product Manager do? I've already posted about this , twice , but it's time for a refresh. As Product Management gets more publicity as a discipline , people often ask me what the role of Product Management is all about. Let's go through it in more detail. Product Managers wear many different hats - project managers, designers, strategic advisors, developers - all for the sake of being the voice of the customer.

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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, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Comment on Designing Around the Vocal Minority by Dealing With the Vocal Minority – B2B | Pm Paul

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Xivic saves time and resources by partnering with UserTesting

UserTesting

Xivic , a digital agency for over 20 years, helps brands and clients understand their customers’ digital journey and expectations. Shaping this experience is unique to every brand and business, and Xivic focuses on solutions key to each brand’s customers. … The post Xivic saves time and resources by partnering with UserTesting appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Filters Have a New Address

dscout People Nerds

Faster, simpler filters in dscout increase speed to insight.

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Structured Visits – Cross Functional Team

The Product Bistro

Our last post was an overview of what is a structured series of customer visits, and a high level overview. This next post in the series will dive deeper, and discuss the importance of structured customer visits being cross functional. Even though structured customer visits are technically “ marketing ” research, for them to be valuable requires that many of the key groups in the organization are involved.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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What are the best strategies for recruiting effective product managers?

DISQO

Building great product teams begins with hiring great product people. But who are product professionals and what exactly do they do? Sometimes even. product pros find this a difficult question to answer because their scope is wide and they wear many different hats. Ken Yeung, a reporter for The Next Web , defines them as, “the unsung heroes of the industry, these skilled professionals are the people who manage every movement of the product’s lifecycle, taking the idea and guiding it through deve

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Xivic saves time and resources by partnering with UserTesting

UserTesting

Xivic , a digital agency for over 20 years, helps brands and clients understand their customers’ digital journey and expectations. Shaping this experience is unique to every brand and business, and Xivic focuses on solutions key to each brand’s customers. … The post Xivic saves time and resources by partnering with UserTesting appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Longer Video, Deeper Insights

dscout People Nerds

The 60-second video option arrives to the dscout platform.

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New Feature: Automated Mission Summaries

dscout People Nerds

They’re not just for screeners anymore!

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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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I, Phone: The 13 Million Moments that Mattered…or didn’t.

dscout People Nerds

The 13 million moments that mattered…or didn’t.

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What are the best strategies for recruiting effective product managers?

DISQO

Building great product teams begins with hiring great product people. But who are product professionals and what exactly do they do? Sometimes even. product pros find this a difficult question to answer because their scope is wide and they wear many different hats. Ken Yeung, a reporter for The Next Web , defines them as, “the unsung heroes of the industry, these skilled professionals are the people who manage every movement of the product’s lifecycle, taking the idea and guiding it through deve

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What are the best strategies for recruiting effective product managers?

DISQO

Building great product teams begins with hiring great product people. But who are product professionals and what exactly do they do? Sometimes even. product pros find this a difficult question to answer because their scope is wide and they wear many different hats. Ken Yeung, a reporter for The Next Web , defines them as, “the unsung heroes of the industry, these skilled professionals are the people who manage every movement of the product’s lifecycle, taking the idea and guiding it through deve