Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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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 ? Analyze in-app user satisfaction using tools like NPS and CSAT surveys. Book a demo now.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Which problems solve user pain points faster? Is it worth pursuing and will it actually bring value to the customer? Left to their own devices, the team can start to drift away from the product vision, which doesn’t bode well for the final product. Which features help deliver the most value?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2022

This is where frameworks come into the picture. What are the product frameworks? Frameworks in business provide the sets of steps for creating new products or improving the performance, cost, and quality of existing products. But, while frameworks can be very helpful, they can’t be applied blindly! Why use it? Why use it?

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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. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This role also focuses on increasing the retention rate for existing customers. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Hard Skills Required for the Role. Product Strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. Look for patterns in customer behavior, common questions, and recurring challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

And that’s why it’s necessary to adopt the right product management frameworks (the blueprint!) So, which product management frameworks should your team use? TL;DR Product management frameworks help guide product teams by establishing standardized, repeatable processes to create successful products. The result?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pictured from top to bottom, product manager Sören Weber, product designer Emilio Martins, user researcher Mara Zocco, and product designer Gabriel Hourigan. When it came to defining their work in terms of user problems, the trivago team already had good habits in place. Users don’t usually express their needs directly.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It starts from understanding who your customers are, what are the pain points of the customers, coming up with solutions to resolve those pain points, and finally implementing those solutions. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. Product development is a pretty complicated process.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. In a recent survey, our team let us know design career paths and advancement were pain points. The only thing harder than designing a product is designing your career. Invent the future of interaction design.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Customer journey maps, story mapping, impact mapping—there are lots of ways to externalize your thinking. Principle 1: Encourage Teams to Discover Opportunities through Continuous Customer Touch Points. Discovering opportunities through continuous customer touch points is one of the guiding principles of continuous discovery.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. She says that you can only create significant value for the business by solving the big problems for the users. Understanding User Needs is key.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

It is a critical framework for product teams to ensure that their products meet customer needs and are delivered on time, within budget, and with the required quality. During the product discovery stage, product teams gather customer feedback , conduct user research, and analyze market trends to inform their product decisions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! At this point inexperienced product managers are ready to walk out, but I give them a framework in order to structure the discussion. The framework I suggest to candidates is this: 1. Pain points 2. Market sizing 4.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? Utilizing digital analytics enables them to make data-driven product decisions , and identify user friction and pain points. What’s digital analytics?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A successful roadmap should include information on UX vision , strategy, goals, themes, milestones, and a timeline. UX research aims to identify specific user pain points. Common research techniques include user behavior analysis, surveys, and interviews. improving retention). UX roadmap. Source: Roadmunk.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Every designer should ask themselves – how can I apply the tenets of good design to drive better customer and business outcomes? User research is a vital part of the design process. By constantly observing the customer, you find out how they define success in their organization, and therefore, how you can help them achieve it.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

But, they are different from the product vision. You must know your customers extremely well. Leverage user research , conduct interviews, and track reviews for this. Use the JTBD framework and develop a product-thinking mindset for it. That said, product principles are different from company vision and product goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Gousto’s approach to solving customer problems to create massive business value has radically changed in the last two years. We blocked signups, we blocked resubscriptions, and we blocked unsubscribed customers from ordering one-off boxes. Each decision we made affected thousands. Disclaimer #2, I’m a big fan of Brian’s).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

In this narrative, I’ll delve into the three key aspects that bridge these roles seamlessly: Customer Centricity, Design Thinking for Product Roadmapping, and Internalizing Empathy during Stakeholder Management. When I later transitioned into a Product Manager role, this customer-centric approach became invaluable.

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Userpilot

APRIL 27, 2023

Customer feedback is like a window into your customers’ minds. It allows you to understand their pain points, needs, and desires so that you can build better products that satisfy genuine market demands. TL;DR Customer feedback is the data you get from your users about your product and their experience.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A product roadmap is a general term for a plan that highlights the direction, vision , priorities, and progress of a product’s development over time. Here, the product manager mainly makes decisions based on intuition, customer feedback or (requests), and market trends. How is a data product roadmap different?

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

APRIL 11, 2023

Building an effective customer insights strategy is a vital part of any good product manager’s skillset. In this article, we’re going to unpack why a customer insight strategy is important, how to build one, and how you can use these insights to drive customer satisfaction (and a better product experience).

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