Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Because of this, companies can’t just rely on what worked in the past. Building a Culture That Supports Innovation One of the main topics we explore in this episode is how a company’s culture can help or hinder innovation. Chris shares his experience of keeping a strong culture, and even improving it, as his company grew.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Building the Foundation for Product Vision This activity serves as a bridge between problem validation and product vision development. By identifying and validating solutions before creating a product vision, product managers ensure they’re building on solid ground rather than assumptions.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

Her first professional role was with a retail industry consulting company, where she started as a part-time employee during college. Over ten years, she rose through the ranks until everyone in the company reported to her. As a new product manager, Kim faced the common challenge of understanding her company’s technical landscape.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

These companies used OKRs as a communication tool, ensuring everyone spoke the same language about priorities and progress. OKRs tied to bonuses Direct cascade: The company sets objective and key results, and a department adopts one of the key results as their objective. Many companies have challenges implementing OKRs.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Breaking this down: 78% of issues stem from flawed company systems 22% come from employee mistakes Most time is spent on reactive problem-solving The solution involves transforming middle managers from reactive problem-solvers into system improvers. hours daily dealing with problems.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

Companies find something that works and gives them a competitive advantage and then tend to stick with it, limiting meaningful innovation over time. I have had the pleasure of coaching some of the best organizations in their industry and I can tell you every company can improve how it innovates.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

Ranch and co-founder of the Dexter Bourbon Distillery, but has spent decades helping companies break free from innovation roadblocks. This approach helped Doug build and sell an entire company based on insights from academic publications. Wisdom Mining: Leveraging academic articles and research.

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Piyanka Jain

MARCH 12, 2025

And not because AI itself is broken, but because companies keep treating it like a science project instead of a tool that actually needs to solve problems. By the end of 2025, the winners wont be the companies throwing money at flashy AI experiments. AI isnt magic; its atool.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Many companies are either starting on or in the midst of an organizational transformation. Much of this is being fueled by the success of the FAANG companies ( Facebook , Amazon, Apple , Netflix , and Google ) who, now along with Microsoft and NVIDIA , boast some of the largest market caps in the world. But sadly, its not that simple.

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Piyanka Jain

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A SaaS company I recently worked with had over 50 million active users enjoying a host of great free features. The company even offered a 7-day free trial for its premium features but didn’t see enough of a conversion rate. Putting these small changes together, the SaaS company unlocked over $14,000,000 in two-year value.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Our discussion explored strategies that leading companies are using to integrate sustainability, design for durability, and make smarter decisions about product evolution. The companies leading in sustainability arent just meeting ESG goals; theyre cutting operational costs, improving brand trust, and increasing customer loyalty.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She describes her mission as attracting, retaining, enabling, and engaging the best talent for her company. We need to understand our employees as customers that we recruit (the equivalent to marketing/sales) and then they subscribe to our product (the employee experience) until they are not with the company anymore.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

How long will it take to hear back from a company? A big part of Teeba’s process involved putting her product skills to use throughout the job search, both in terms of identifying product-led companies and in terms of mapping out business and product outcomes for companies where she was interviewing.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Developing and nurturing a strong personal brand is critical, not only for advancing your career but also for building influence within your company and the broader product community. But there’s another product that deserves just as much attention— you.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This information empowers teams across your company to make informed decisions based on customer experiences and perceptions. It helps reveal how effectively a company meets its customers’ needs and expectations. As a result, companies can drive actionable improvements based on the feedback they receive.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

An ideal customer profile is something that everyone in the company needs to be aligned on. But when we take the time to slow down, to get everyones input, to put in the work, people are more satisfied with their team and their company. Product trios are more satisfied with their team and company. And it got me thinking.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Core Product Development Challenges: The Power of Single-Feature Focus Anya highlighted a mistake many startups and product teams make: trying to compete with established companies by matching or exceeding their feature lists. ” The problem? ” The problem?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Productside

MARCH 17, 2025

Many companies pour monthsor even yearsinto developing new features and products, only to realize too late that there is no real demand. Did you know that 42 percent of startups fail because they build products no one wants? The key to avoiding this costly mistake? Validate product ideas quickly. In our recent webinar, Kenny Kranseler.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most innovative companies didn’t achieve greatness by sticking to convention. Companies like Airbnb, Netflix, and Basecamp challenged everything they were told about how to build products. Companies like Airbnb mastered real-time prioritization. When a company becomes obsessed with OKRs, risk-taking tends to fade.

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Productside

JANUARY 15, 2025

Product managers are the backbone of todays most innovative companies. However, investing in product management certification offers measurable benefits for individuals seeking career advancement and companies aiming to boost product and business outcomes. They define product vision, drive strategy, and oversee execution.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2024

They are also an opportunity to assess further whether the company you are interviewing for is the right fit. Nobody Wants to Steal Your Ideas Before diving into how to excel in home assignments, here is a quick note to hiring companies : if you expect candidates to embrace them, treat these assignments with respect and integrity.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 4, 2025

billion for the once pioneering video calling company. Microsoft is shutting down its Skype service in May, 14 years after it paid $8.5 Skype users will be migrated to Teams. The service had 36 million users in 2023, when Microsoft last reported user numbers, compared with 300 million users at its peak.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As organisations become more dependent on internal teams, this role is becoming more and more important as companies look to rely more on operations and productivity within engineering teams.In An often overlooked role in product management is the internal product manager.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

She explains how most tools are either too simple or too complex and fail to communicate the full story of a companys progress. What Executives Need: Insights into the gaps in tools for managing company-wide roadmaps and progress. The Complexity of Roadmapping: How roadmapping tools struggle to balance simplicity and depth.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Duolingo has long been a standout in product strategy, company culture, and user engagement. Now, with the release of its company handbook, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what drives its success. Over 14 years, it has grown into a household name, blending language learning with gamification to keep users returning.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers. Sometimes it refers to someone’s seniority within the company, and at other times it refers to their authority and autonomy for a given project. This creates some confusion when it comes to forming product trios. The term “lead” is vague.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Drew Falkman, Principal at Moves the Needle, shares his diverse background in product management, from founding a web agency in the dot-com boom to consulting for companies like HP and Adobe.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 2, 2025

Engagement is often one of those north-star metrics that many software companies use to determine whether users are actually getting any value from your product. It can highlight the difference between a product that users open once and forget, and one they cant imagine living without.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Salary transparency is an increasingly important topic in tech, as professionals are keen to maximize their compensation, and companies are looking to hire and retain top talent. As Mark Zuckerberg argued in 2023 , and many other companies have followed suit, employees need to “get back to making things.” Yes and no.

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