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

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. He explains how to conduct an AI-powered design sprint that transforms product concepts into clickable prototypes in just hours instead of weeks.

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How to Succeed with AI in 2025

Piyanka Jain

Itll be the ones who know how to separate hype from reality, focusing on pragmatic AIAI that works, delivers value, and integrates seamlessly into business processes. So, lets talk about how to getthere. Think AI-powered chatbots that frustrate customers more than theyhelp.

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The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned from a Single Customer Interview

Product Talk

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Ask Teresa: For Customer Interviews, Who Counts as a Customer?

Product Talk

Whenever I introduce the topic of customer interviews (the foundational element of continuous discovery ), I get a lot of questions about who counts as a customer. Tweet This Ask Teresa: Who counts as a customer? Customers can vary depending on your company and product. Tweet This Let’s look at a few common scenarios.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Product Talk

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?

Product Talk

Creating frequent touch points with customers is one of the core tenets of continuous discovery. I’ve often said that I believe interviewing customers frequently and consistently is a keystone habit. Question: When you talk to customers on a weekly basis, who should you be talking to? You want to talk to power users.

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. It’s no secret, only 13% of salespeople are satisfied with their CRM. Leading integrations that fit directly into your CRM and workflow.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

Executives, Board Members, and Customer economic buyers see the world through numbers and visualizations. Product managers need to be as competent in these domains as they are in understanding customer problems and pain points. How to leverage these techniques to manage their product business in a market-driven way.

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The Magic of Intent: Start Knowing The Goals of Your Users

Speaker: Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, Zalando, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher, Zalando

It's important to know your users - what are their preferences, pain points, ultimate goals? With user research and usage data, you can get a great idea of how your users act. The tricky part is, very few users reliably act the same way every time they use your product.

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Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation. As a result, companies end up falling into a “Build, Ship, Build, Ship” culture that doesn’t consciously solve their customer’s pain points. How to gain alignment on your roadmap.