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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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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

This approach has informed her success across different industries and roles, from retail to technology. Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software?

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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. But again, there’s no rule that requires you to use the opportunity solution tree. Tweet This.

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Retailers. Don’t just collect feedback. Act on it!

Alchemer Mobile

In the retail industry, customer feedback is your early warning system, your innovation engine, and your most honest performance review. But this system only works if you take action on the feedback collected. Heres how to take insights from customer feedback and turn them into results.

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The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

Product Talk

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. Next is the opportunity space.

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Using Customer Empathy To Build Better Products

The Product Guy

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. How Products Fail Without Customer Empathy. First Principles of customer empathy.