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Coach instead of mini-CEO–and other innovation insights for product managers July 8, 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. . Product manager as mini-CEO or coach? A lot of people get involved with product management because they want more influence over product and the organization. Their motivation is not wrong – product managers do have influence.

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It’s How You React to Failure that Matters: Why Ego is the Enemy

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: This guest post is an excerpt from my friend Ryan Holiday’s new book, Ego Is the Enemy. Ryan is the author of three other books and his monthly reading recommendations, which go out to 50,000+ subscribers, can be found here. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. —Marcus Aurelius John DeLorean ran his car […].

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The DIY Illusion

Mironov Consulting

I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is very similar to commercially available products. In each case, they’ve ended up with partial solutions, late delivery, disappointed users, and unconscionable costs. I call this the Do It Yourself Illusion : the idea that broadly available commercial products don’t give us exactly what we want, but our internal team can whip up just the right thing.

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Focus Group Focus

Haines-Group

You can learn much from Organizations, Buyers, Users, Influencers, and Channel partners by focusing on the questions for which Focus Groups serve well: U nderstand Market Needs Discover : Problems/Needs. Aspirations. Currently used solutions. Business impacts and context. Trends. Purchase drivers. Segments/Personas. T est Concepts (product or marketing concepts) Discover : Existing knowledge & attitudes that impact the concept.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The Top Strategies For Doing Customer Interviews That Get You Real Insights

Street Smart Product Manager

We all know a core responsibility of a product manager is to constantly and consistently bring in the customer perspective into the business. That means the ability to effectively interview customers is a critical skill for every product manager. I must admit, earlier in my career I totally sucked at it. I had no plan. […]. The post The Top Strategies For Doing Customer Interviews That Get You Real Insights appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Ecommerce has shaken up the retail segment. Are the physical stores ready for transformation?

SidsAvenue

I had gone to a mobile store in my neighborhood to buy some accessories. While my mobile was being done, I was chit chatting with the owner about the business. Before he started speaking, the expressions on his face because of my question said it all. The business was not as good. It is not as good as it used to be earlier before the arrival of online players.

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Everything I’ve learned about Lean UX: AMA with Jeff Gothelf

UserTesting

Jeff Gothelf changed the way we look at designing products and services six years ago with his book, Lean UX. In a recent AMA-style webinar , Jeff talks about how things have changed since 2010 and what he’s learned as … The post Everything I’ve learned about Lean UX: AMA with Jeff Gothelf appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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TEI 079: Cross the chasm using the target market model – with Chasm Institute’s Michael Eckhardt - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

I read Crossing the Chasm when it was published in 1991. The third edition was released last year, with updated examples of how companies successfully increased the market for their new products. The book introduced me to the “target market model,” which had a significant impact on how I thought about the relationship between product growth and market segments.

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Everything I’ve learned about Lean UX: AMA with Jeff Gothelf

UserTesting

Jeff Gothelf changed the way we look at designing products and services six years ago with his book, Lean UX. In a recent AMA-style webinar , Jeff talks about how things have changed since 2010 and what he’s learned as … The post Everything I’ve learned about Lean UX: AMA with Jeff Gothelf appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

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