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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions.

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Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

Product Talk

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. – Tweet This In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and so much more.

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Tools of the Trade: Finding People to Interview Before You Have Customers

Product Talk

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. In 2019 research firm IDC found them to deliver 869% ROI (??) along with time savings and higher productivity.

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The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

Product Talk

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests. Next is the opportunity space.