Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Product management comes down to discipline and process.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. API teams need to think about onboarding just like everyone else. This got me curious.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. Multiply that across a team, and operational drag becomes a real cost. Sound familiar?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. By the team that’s building the product.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With that as the backdrop, there’s a good chance all of your launch content and messaging follows the theme of the headline in the press release. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. Huge ripple effect?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

How to stand out as an applicant for a product management position We are talking with Erika Klics. Erika is a former Head of Talent for tech companies who became a Job Search Strategist for startup and scaleup Directors, VPs, and department Heads for Product Management and other functions in tech. Why is that happening?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? This helps you stand out and connect more deeply with your target market.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most product managers are driven to achieve excellence in their craft. Many, however, get stuck in what I call “product consultant” mode and cannot break out of it. Many product managers never get to launch a product, let alone own one. Accumulating Product Management Scar Tissue.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Product managers most often reach out to me for advice when they are in the midst of contemplating their next role. As an industry, we frequently talk about the reality that there is no single definition for the responsibilities of a product manager and that product management roles differ meaningfully across companies.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too. For today’s Product in Practice , I caught up with Welena Villasoto , the Community Manager for the CDH Community. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How product managers can move their customers to action using the StoryBrand Framework. Today we are talking about how to clearly communicate the value of a product to customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:51] If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting mobile product manager roles and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in mobile product management?

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Takeaway: Great product managers arent just builders.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Tools like Userpilot , for example, can help you automate data collection processes, welcome messages, account setup, in-app guidance, and more. As noted by Ragini Vaid , Product Manager at Collegedunia, automated onboarding maps “customer responses in real-time to decide the next best action towards nurturing your user.”

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Let’s be real for a second?—?digital

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Lessons on innovation and product management from the pandemic. Dr. Joseph Michelli is a returning guest, having previously brought us insights for creating incredible customer experiences with products and services in episodes 147 and 251. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:47]

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But they shouldn’t receive the same message about your new feature. They have different needs and goals, and they use different parts of your product. Which message is more effective? One thing that does not scale is sending personalized messages to your users. First, it would be irrelevant to many of them.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. Since 2019, they’ve been making a gradual transition to working in product trios. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. What works well?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. Enter GIST.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. You’ll hear from: Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum.io , Sebastian Wramba , Product Manager at Netfonds AG (finfire), and Jelena Stajic , Vice President of Product at ScholarshipOwl.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Now hold on a minute you might say, isn’t product failure just the inevitable cost of product innovation ? Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. A product or product improvement needs to provide genuine benefits to a customer.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. App promo videos take your marketing to the next level by bringing your messaging to life. It’s marketing.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

How to solve common dysfunctions in product management Today’s guest is Ben Foster, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Prodify. He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 16, 2022

On the flip side of this, product managers often feel overwhelmed by the idea of sifting through and making sense of the sheer amount of mobile feedback. We leverage a six-step process to help our customers gauge their feedback strengths and weaknesses. Use your mobile customer feedback to continually improve your product.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 2, 2021

OK product management, what’s the plan? Let’s assume the product line you’ve acquired has complementary value to your existing portfolio. Differing opinions on which products or platforms are more strategic, especially if there’s overlap or redundancies with some products. Here’s why.

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