Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2016

You’ve likely heard of the curse of knowledge or sometimes it is called the curse of the expert. It occurs when our knowledge leads us down predictable paths, likely not considering other possible solutions to problems but only those that are familiar to us. This is cognitive bias and is the topic I asked my guest about, which lead to discussing open innovation and how to manufacture serendipity.

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 23, 2016

The concepts behind structured customer visits are powerful tools that allows the product manager or marketing team to quickly validate their assumptions, and ensure that the market matches the internal view. However, since you often must rely on groups that have an underlying agenda to select customers to visit, and also to coordinate the visits, there is a very real risk in this process.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2016

Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback. Markets – my segments, their problems, and how to reach them with my solution (and if they are big enough for me to make money). Positioning and value propositions – what my product does for my segment, and why it’s a better solution than the competition.

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UserVoice

AUGUST 25, 2016

No one comes to a product management job as a blank slate. Even if it’s an entry-level position, you must have done something beforehand to merit a company handing the fate of a feature or product over to you. That means you’re experienced, whether it was leading product strategy for another firm, time in the trenches building a product, or working in the industry your new solution will serve.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. HBR study – team members, not leaders, more responsible for innovation. While innovation continues to score highly in importance, most organizations are underperforming, and the respondents to an HBR survey indicates the issue is not leadership.

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Nir Eyal

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nir’s Note: This Q&A recently appeared on the 15five.com blog and it pulled out some thoughts I’ve been chewing on regarding technology, addiction, and our relationship with the products we use. I’ve edited it slightly and hope you find it interesting. Question: Pokémon GO is all the rage right now. Can you talk about that […].

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UserVoice

AUGUST 23, 2016

A common challenge that Product Managers face is trying to move their product and company forward with limited development and testing resources. And it often takes a combination of skill, talent, and luck on the part of a Product Manager to pry additional resources from the limited pool that their company has to build and innovate on their products.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2016

Palo Alto’s Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley meetup, led by Dan Olsen, hosted Rich for… What: “ Challenges of Enterprise Product Management “ When: Tues, 23 Aug, 6pm – 830pm. Where: Medallia , 395 Page Mill Rd, Suite 100, Palo. Enterprise software products often have long sales cycles, lumpy revenue streams, and organizational gaps between buyers and users.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 23, 2016

Pricing is a creative process. The art of pricing is about selecting a revenue model and pricing strategy. The science of pricing identifies a price based on one or more pricing drivers. Effective implementation of pricing requires a dedicated pricing team. Pricing: The Third Business Skill: Principles of Price Management by Ernst-Jan Bouter. Pricing is both an art and a science: art qualifies, science quantifies.

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TSIA

AUGUST 26, 2016

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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Product Beautiful

AUGUST 24, 2016

Events. It’s natural to dread them. As a product manager, you may view events as largely tactical and time-consuming endeavors. Beyond that, you may loathe being stuck in a trade show booth taking on a sales role that’s not entirely comfortable for you. But the truth is that events aren’t just a sales and marketing tactic. They can and should be a strategic part of your market research—a way to glean feedback from your market as much as they are a place to push your message.

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Product Management 2.0

AUGUST 23, 2016

As we discussed in our recent post How to Quantify the Return on Product Management , it’s essential for product management teams to focus on market-sensing activities. How do customers and prospects view your solutions relative to the competition? What are the most important factors in their decision? Who is involved? A golden opportunity to gain insight is right after a customer or prospect chooses to buy or not buy.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The product management interview process is intimidating because it tests your expertise and domain knowledge in many different areas. I asked Lewis C. Lin , the author of PM Interview Questions , about his favorite books for expanding a product manager’s skill set in the following areas: Product design. Customer analytics. Executive communication. User and customer empathy.

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TSIA

AUGUST 24, 2016

An article we wrote called, “How to Actually Make Money in the Cloud” was featured on Inc.com, the web presence of Inc. Magazine, which has been the premier print publication for entrepreneurs and business owners for more than 30 years. In this article, we provide a brief background into the emergence of cloud-based business models, explaining that even though they attract the financial interest of visionary entrepreneurs, many are struggling to be profitable.

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dscout People Nerds

AUGUST 22, 2016

Research captures 486 retail tech moments and the meaning of “now”.

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Split

AUGUST 22, 2016

ChartMogul recently published a compelling piece , highlighting how each team across a company can draw the connection between individual contributions and one such metric – MRR. By understanding this connection, each employee can understand their tangible impact on your company’s goals. However, the ability to understand the impact of contributions is easier for some teams than others.

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UserTesting

AUGUST 26, 2016

Product managers help teams create winning products by combining insights across multiple test types. – Brent Tworetzky. I love this line from Brent Tworetzky’s recent LinkedIn article, A Product Manager’s Superpower: User Science. Brent is the Executive Vice President, … The post The power of user science appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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TSIA

AUGUST 23, 2016

Great self-service is something most companies aspire to provide, in pursuit of an exceptional customer experience. When done well, it increases customer satisfaction and loyalty. It’s also cheaper and relieves the contact center from the burden of answering repetitive calls. 97% of the support leaders TSIA surveyed plan to invest in self-service tools in the next two years.

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UserTesting

AUGUST 26, 2016

Product managers help teams create winning products by combining insights across multiple test types. – Brent Tworetzky. I love this line from Brent Tworetzky’s recent LinkedIn article, A Product Manager’s Superpower: User Science. Brent is the Executive Vice President, … The post The power of user science appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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