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The Evolution of the Tech Consumer

Centercode

The people who consume tech have also changed significantly. From the niche world of hi-tech enthusiasts from the 90s to today’s mainstream users, the people who consume technology have had as much of an effect on its evolution as it has had in our daily life. Yesterday’s Tech Buyers: Enthusiasts.

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What’s the Difference Between Product-Centric and Customer-Centric

ProductPlan

Product-centric and customer-centric approaches shift the emphasis away from pure technology innovation and project-based management. Understanding the difference between product-centric vs. customer-centric can help your product-centric organization focus on creating and augmenting innovative products. Customer centricity.

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How Did The Christmas Tree Find Product-Market Fit?

Bain Public

When it comes to not wasting opportunities and adding momentum to the product development , it's important to ask the tough question of "Do we have product-market fit?" A lot of companies have product market fit today, but as the market changes and the world evolves, they might not have it in the future. When did the market change?

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Technographics: Your Shortcut to Improving Interoperability

Centercode

With consumers adopting more and more smart tech, the everyday spaces of your customers has become an interoperability minefield. Tapping into an aspect of growing importance within the realm of beta testing: technographics. Anyone who makes technology that interacts with other devices their customers own.

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Connecting Customers to Office Tech in the WFH Era

Centercode

In step with the rapid, unprecedented shift from the office to the home office, the demand for technology like routers, wireless printers, webcams, headsets, and portable hard drives has hit the makers of these products like a tidal wave. In a recent Betabound poll, 64% of consumers reported increasing their office tech usage.

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TEI 314: How to make your ideas thrive instead of die – with Shankar Achanta

Product Innovation Educators

Insights for product managers from an R&D Engineering Director. He has had a number of engineering product roles at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, which designs and manufactures products for the power industry. 1:30] What are your responsibilities as an R&D Engineering Director?

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It’s Time to Bring Beta into the 21st Century

Centercode

Brainstorming product vision with your engineers and design team? User Experience as a field? And nestled in the center of all this was beta testing, a practice (usually without standardized processes) that loosely applied to any sort of pre-launch product testing. Product development also looked very different back then.