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500: Evolving trends in product management: What every PM and VP Needs to Know – with Tony Ulwick

Product Innovation Educators

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development. His early research involved a simple but powerful method: asking customers to compare products. It’s been about 93.5%

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TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

Product Innovation Educators

Choose the right university partners to drive research and innovation. To explain how their system works and tips for implementing a partner program, Ed Krause joins us. He is the Global Manager External Alliances Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:26]

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

I went to do some research to figure out whether it was true or not. In 2006, Henry Ford’s great-grandson said that the attribution to Ford was accurate. Understanding Even when you’re listening closely to customers, they’ll often speak in terms of solutions. Sounds like someone has been reading cruise industry magazines, right?

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

In 2006, Alan Mulally took over as president and CEO of a struggling Ford Motor Company. But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford Motor Company. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?