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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. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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How to Succeed with AI in 2025

Piyanka Jain

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. Think AI-powered chatbots that frustrate customers more than theyhelp.

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Importance of Customer Segmentation when Building New Products

The Product Guy

There is no such thing as placing too much importance on your customers. Customers are the oxygen for any business model. One of the primary goals of any business strategy is to identify and meet needs of the customer. Customers differ widely from each other in various aspects. Collecting the data from various sources.

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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. Everyone thinks their company context is unique—whether they’re B2B or B2B2C or some other combination of letters and numbers.

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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. However, as a company, sales stack, and database grow, it becomes difficult to uphold structure and governance to keep a CRM up-to-date.

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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 Identify Customer Pain Points and Adress Them to Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

Understanding how to identify customer pain points and struggles is the cornerstone of creating a painless customer experience and a loyal customer base. The reason is simple – struggling customers hold the key to sustained product growth. There are different types of pain points.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. What's more, they can achieve all this while staying aligned to company goals. Developing multiple solutions to address your customers' major pain points.

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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. What an effective roadmap is and is not.