Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

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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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. They also enable targeted user engagement and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. A big part of our job is finding these market problems, customer needs and desires. Market research. Finding and validating market problems is not a one-time thing.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a company size where not all strategy can originate with the founder; we need to diversify markets, enter new markets, and have at least points-of-view on emerging markets and how we will address them. This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. So youre asked to do a market analysis to make sure stakeholders are confident in your plan. Executive stakeholders want things that drive growth. Is it bulletproof?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. However, selecting a framework or creating one from scratch can be very confusing.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework. It can and should exist with any framework or process. I rarely thought about it after that.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ? Product managers used to do the upfront market research, product planning, and requirements definition work.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Outline a marketing plan to promote your product across multiple channels and drive sales.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

She condemns the SAFe framework, which separates the role of product owner and product manager, asserting the former as tactical and the latter strategic. Start today, by analysing all the information available – customer and user research, market research, and user data. Customer and market insights.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM. His early research involved a simple but powerful method: asking customers to compare products. This framework made innovation more predictable and effective. He started exploring what makes innovation successful.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

.” Logical Reasoning Prompts Encourage AI to use logical reasoning by giving it examples or frameworks. This can be particularly helpful for tasks like figuring out market size or making financial projections. For example, “Given a particular market size and capture rate, how many sales do I need to break even?”

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Is your company ready to target new markets? What product marketing strategies can you use to increase your chances of success? To answer this, let’s explore: What a market development strategy is. Common methods companies use to enter new markets. Real-life SaaS examples of successful market development attempts.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

After all, when you know exactly what metrics are growing, what market leaders are betting on, how and what budgets are spent, what marketing solutions are chosen, what practices should be implemented and what to focus on in the near future, life becomes better. Marketers succeed in personalization in real time.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They’ve developed an insights platform to facilitate collaboration between market researchers, UX professionals, marketing managers, and product leaders. There are junior developers who know a lot more than I do about the latest front-end framework, and and asking them to explain it to me engenders trust. [11:49]

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed. Let’s dive in!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Here are three signs that you are at this level: You engage in strategizing work , such as market discovery and market research, competitor research and competitive analysis, business modelling and financial forecasting, strategy validation, and selecting and applying the right key performance indicators (KPIs).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

After graduating, he worked with organizations like GfK and Ipsos  — big names in consumer insights and market research. You’re now trying to capture a market of people who need to understand how their consumers shop and what they look for. But we also have a research consulting team. I’ve read Steve Blank ,” Tremis said.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Product marketing is a nuanced, fast-paced, and multi-faceted endeavor. In a competitive environment with no guarantees, marketing experimentation serves as a surefire way to maximize reach, optimize conversions, and improve the user experience. What is marketing experimentation? Why you should run marketing experiments?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

Are you wondering about the difference between the Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product? MVP reduces the time to market and allows a quicker release of the product. A Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is a more developed version of the MVP and it is ready to be sold to customers. If so, you are in the right place!

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is the stuff that allows you to take any framework, any bunch of data, any existing team, and glue it together.” I’ve developed the TIPS Framework to classify stakeholders into four categories: Team—people who are working on the product day-to-day. This is the stuff nobody teaches. That’s a mistake.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. What is product-market fit (PMF)? Let’s jump in!

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

The product management jobs-to-be-done framework relies on the idea that the customer is ready to spend money on a product only when it helps them complete a particular job. According to the framework, customers don’t buy products but only hire them when they need them. What is the origin of the jobs-to-be-done framework?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Candidates are expected to engage with the question critically, asking clarifying questions, applying analytical frameworks, and building on their assumptions despite not being market experts on the topic at hand. These frameworks help organize your thoughts and demonstrate your ability to approach complex problems systematically.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 24, 2019

One way to make better product decisions is to borrow a framework developed by Google. Google originally created the HEART framework to help its UX teams improve users’ experience with Google products. But, product managers can get as much benefit out of the HEART framework as UX designers have. Engagement. Task success.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

We can see that such innovations face a chasm between the early and the mainstream market. Crossing this chasm decides if the innovation will become a success or has to leave the market. Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. It’s marketing. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. App marketing at its most basic. The bad news? The good news?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. If you think about startups and think they might be agile (fast-growing and react to market fast enough etc), you will be much surprised. So what can you do?

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. One of the critical tools that can help product managers improve customer satisfaction is the SERVQUAL model or Customer Service Gap model , a framework for identifying and addressing gaps in service delivery.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success. If you want to know more, book a demo now !

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). Too often people come at sales from a marketing perspective. People keep talking about product market fit. To answer your question about where I am today?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I started at Lowe’s running international marketing research and eventually worked my way into innovation. [4:56] One of the things I look at in the book is the difference between the formal decision making process and the “black market’ process of how things actually get done. Uncommon Partners.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time. With this framework in hand, you’ll be well-equipped to develop successful and effective products that meet the needs of your customers and create value for your business.

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