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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our second book, Corporate Explorer Handbook , says that as management consultants and academics we don’t know all the answers. We wanted to make some of those tools more available to people. [7:22] 12:24] What tools have you seen resonant with organizations because they help them innovate better?

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Product Managers are Not Required to Design, But Learning Design is Part of The Job

The Product Coalition

When I start to learn about product management, it seems PMs do a lot of things related to data, research, user experience, and dealing with other teams such as design, engineering, etc. The leadership of product teams is a shared responsibility between product managers, engineering leads, and UX designers.

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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

Bobby Stapleton , our Senior Manager of Customer Support for North America, recently caught up with Annette to chat about getting to know the customer and why personas and journey mapping are the perfect tools to do it. Finally, and only when you have those two systems in place, you can (and must) start empathizing with them.

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You Are Building the WRONG Things in your SaaS product

The Product Coalition

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We also looked at some other research by Mind the Product and by Richard Banfield.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustainability Successful Growth by Clayton M.

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Friday Tracks and Takeaways When Lightning Strikes

Gainsight

The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.