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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

The core focus of these activities is on thorough market research, continuous customer engagement, and strategic product development. Market Research As software product managers navigate the complex landscape of product development, market research emerges as a crucial first activity.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control.

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

From Personal Problem to Market Opportunity Anya found herself wanting to look more professional but discovered existing clothing services weren’t designed for busy professionals who prioritized efficiency over fashion. Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected.

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How To Make Generative AI Your Market Research Intern

Product Management University

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. Second and even more important, the process of doing market research even if you have a fulltime person doing it, is still terribly time-consuming and inefficient. Summer Intern Anyone?

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. Where do we play? How do we win?

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505: What you don’t know about product innovation limits your influence – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

We spot important ideas, uncover customer needs, turn concepts into products or features, and work to increase market share. Innovation is the economic engine for organizations and a key source of new value. But there’s more to innovation than just creating new products.

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Managing Your Career and Yourself Like a Product

The Product Guy

In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. If you are just starting out in your product management career it is important to look at where you fit in the market. What is your product vision?