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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. Also who is to define “good” in various industries and companies?

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

Using a custom ChatGPT model combined with collaborative team workshops, product teams can rapidly move from initial customer insights to validated prototypes while incorporating strategic foresight and market analysis. By the time we launch, the market may have moved on from the problem we originally set out to solve.

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

What patterns emerge about which systems (manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc.) What types of stimulus (patents, academic articles, market research) would be most relevant for your current product challenges? This approach helped Doug build and sell an entire company based on insights from academic publications.

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

For example, if a key result depends on both marketing and IT, assign two names to that key result. How could you align OKR cycles with major product milestones or market events? Instead, enable cross-functional ownership when appropriate. No name next to a key result: Ensure someone is accountable to every key result.

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A Guide to Product Localization: Designing for New Markets

UX Planet

Expanding into new markets? Or are you designing a product thats entering a new international market? This process of adapting a product for a specific target market is called product localization. This process of adapting a product for a specific target market is called product localization.

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

Pricing levels, program guidelines Next, each group shared their questions with the others, and they used AI to compare the breadth and depth of the questions. This method helps organizations find balance between rushing into solutions and getting stuck in endless discussions.

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Revealing our refreshed brand: How (and why) we’ve updated our look

Intercom, Inc.

At the time, Intercom was very much an eclectic brand, so this work was foundational in helping to solidify our brand system with thoughtful creative decisions and specific guidelines that would help us to maintain a consistent and ownable brand. Then: The style and animation proved difficult to replicate on a go-to-market timeline.

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