TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

New research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to enterprises – are realizing the business value of personal, efficient customer engagement. And many are striving to provide just that. But they’re facing big barriers. But they’re facing big barriers.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data. At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. Better Decisions.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore digital transformation strategies for enterprises Have you wondered why digital transformation strategies are a necessity? They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. But building good enterprise systems is prone to failure, as author and product consultant Sam McAfee has recently pointed out. Bridge the Gap Between “Tech” and “Business”.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

This article provides an in-depth and honest review of the platform. WalkMe Mobile is most suited for large enterprises and compliance-heavy industries. ShoutOuts and Banners: These features help you capture user attention for announcements, promotions, or critical information. ” WalkMe review collected by Gartner.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. How the customer would like to buy the software (the biggest pitfall in my experience for enterprise products). I call this “building enterprise software while bypassing customer requirements at scale”.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are interactive devices that provide concession, flight, point of interest and flight information to the passenger. Passengers can scan their boarding pass on the kiosk and obtain flight, gate and concession information.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, the challenge lies in dealing with the rapidly expanding volume of data due to incorporating both traditional and non-traditional data sources into the data governance ecosystem. However, this data often exists in different formats, structures, and locations, posing challenges for deriving meaningful insights or informed decisions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. Jordan has a BS in Biology from Union College and an MBA & MS in Information Systems from Boston University’s School of Management. View the live stream….

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Unify data and simplify partner integrations with enterprise-class security and reliability. Supporting tech. Apptentive.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

If successful – save the information and discuss with your manager during your next 1:1. 2) understand why certain items were prioritized high vs. low to make more informed judgment calls without involving my manager in the future. I am working on a fairly large scale project with my manager that touches multiple tech teams.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

It takes a village to successfully manage a product and as a product manager, you will become the central hub within your company for a lot of critical information about your products, market, clients, competitors and prospects. Your management team will be interested in different information to clients, for example.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. As a result, they made more informed decisions.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In reality, due to rapidly changing consumer preferences and shifting stakeholder priorities, roadmaps need to be one of the most fluid, unreliable, and ambiguous tools to clean up the stakeholder communication mess. The end goal here is to train stakeholders to go to the roadmap destination for information. It makes sense.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. Bugs come up, tests take a long time, code reviews are needed, merge conflicts occur, reviews from multiple shareholders might be required, etc. Better Decisions.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. I didn’t speak lightly; I knew our engineers were struggling with the changes and that what they needed most of all was definite information, and fast. To be honest, I think we’re still just figuring things out over here,” I told him.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

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. Inform and optimize designs in order to reduce risk and improve usability. Product Development Phase.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. For product designers, it highlights usability issues , thereby informing design iterations and ensuring more customer-centered solutions. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. This is made possible due to huge working capital and its integrated bundle of products e.g The icing on the cake is if he/she is well informed about Slack and Team turf war.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI is poised to bring about a significant transformation in the enterprise sector. The AI Journey So Far The encouraging news is that most enterprises have already embarked on their artificial intelligence journey over the past decade years. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

It helps you monitor brand awareness, customer loyalty, competitive positioning, and overall brand equity—so you can make informed decisions when it matters most. Review data quarterly – Regularly analyze results to uncover trends, risks, and opportunities, and adjust strategy as needed.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Identify needs that are not yet met and use this to inform your product roadmap. When processing the feedback from your sessions, review your business strategy and product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. This trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Regret, sorrow, disappointment – not all team check-ins and spec reviews end like this, but for a while, most of mine did. Guest Post by: Jince Kuruvilla (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Rishi Kumar]. I will admit that I have a tendency to be a perfectionist. Better Decisions. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. View the live stream….

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When you listen to your customers, you can make more informed product decisions, create a better mobile app experience, develop successful marketing campaigns, launch loyalty programs that actually retain customers, and much more. Inform Product Decisions. According to Gartner , “Technology buying is typically an act of change.”

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

One company I worked with, for example, assigned developers who had worked on enterprise systems using an ancient programming language to develop a brand-new, embedded product with the latest technologies. Once you’ve validated key UX and technology risks, scale by asking the team to split up. 2 Don’t Scale Prematurely.

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