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Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?

Street Smart Product Manager

In order to pursue any product idea — a new product, or a new feature for an existing product — you must make sure it’s a problem worth solving. If it doesn’t solve a tangible, real problem that lots of people are facing, and are willing to pay to have solved, it’s not worth spending … Continue reading "Do You Have A Problem Worth Solving?".

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Good Products Start With Good Questions

Nir Eyal

Nir’s Note: My friend Jake Knapp just published a fantastic book titled, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. The book details a process he and his colleagues at Google Ventures use to quickly go from idea, to prototype, to live test. Jake put together an exclusive excerpt from the book for NirAndFar.com […].

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How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solution

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Internal tools are one of the most overlooked parts of any robust IoT solution. Product Managers usually focus on the customer-facing parts of the solution and leave internal tools as an afterthought. However, IoT solutions typically require a significant amount of monitoring, controlling, and behind-the-scenes operation. Related article: Internet of Things: A Primer for Product Managers If you don’t plan ahead and build […] The post How Internal Tools Can Make or Break Your IoT Solu

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Three. Two. One. Go – Bringing the Donuts 03/16/2016

Ken Norton

How do you make sure your new PM is successful? -. After much discussion, your startup – or division at a larger company – has decided it’s time to hire its first product manager. You can finally breathe a sigh of relief. How do you make sure they’re successful? I’ve written about the first days at a new company from the.

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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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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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Introducing the Technology-as-a-Service Playbook

TSIA

In our previous book, B4B , we talked about the rising popularity of cloud-based business models, and the transition technology companies are making from products to services. Now, it’s time for us to embark on the next part of this journey. As customers choose new ways to consume technology, more solutions providers are adding subscription-based technology-as-a-service (XaaS) offers into their portfolios.

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Give your content distribution wings

Roy Madden

If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If you create a piece of content, but no one reads it, does it exist? Despite investing time, money, and sweat into creating the content, driving readers to your content can be just as difficult. Whether you are a content marketer, a blogger, or a big publisher, this has becoming increasingly difficult in an accelerating world of online content and biased social feeds.

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.

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What makes a great Product Manager

ProductBoard

As I work on productboard , I get asked this question a lot. Either because you folks are hiring more product managers or because you want to get better at product management yourselfs. The Problem — Solution card I see product management as a union between problems and solutions. Think about it as a card. One side is a Problem, the other is a Solution.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How do you overcome internal politics to build great products in a large organization?

DISQO

It’s a pressing question for many product managers within large organizations: how do you deftly navigate the thorny landscape of internal politics to get stuff done? That was the topic of a recent panel we hosted featuring Mark Hurst, Founder and CEO of Creative Good and author of “Customers Included”; Jeremy Horn, former Head of Product, Data Strategy, Content Management and Distribution at Viacom; and Ed Jen, Head of Product for NeoCare Solutions, an Aetna company.