Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. It recommended to focus on two important points: Purpose: Clearly state the purpose of the redesignwhy the business should invest time and money in it and what it will help the business achieve. UX audit checklist prepared by Maze.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Question: What do you do when a stakeholder has an idea that isn’t related to your outcome or your discovery efforts?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He began his career as a freelancer and tech entrepreneur, so this will be his first full-time official position as a product manager in a company that is not his. Paolo Appley, Senior Product Manager at User Interviews. Richard Simms, Senior User Experience Designer at SEEK Learning. Andrew Skotzko, Product Director.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. In this post, I'll take a first pass at definitions, so we can separate the strategic from the tactical. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. Who are our customers/users? Your ideal users.).

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

As a product-led company, we have put great thought, time, and energy into how we organize our product teams. . But when it comes to analyzing what we spent our precious time building, the lines of accountability need to be very clear.”. But usually by the time they’re ready for the heist, there’s a lot of trust there.”.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 21, 2023

In product development, we often use the words, “user” and “customer” interchangeably. I wonder if it’s time to stop talking about “customers” altogether. It's time to clarify who we want to satisfy, so we can make better product decisions. Users use the product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? Product differentiation is about highlighting the features of your product that make it stand out on the market. Mixed differentiation uses both objective and subjective criteria.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Gather data through focus groups, surveys , interviews, and experiments to build accurate, data-driven user personas. Key elements include definition, target audience, key benefit, category, competitive advantage, and differentiation. It attracted a diverse user base and achieved significant market penetration.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Want to improve your user experience metrics to make your SaaS business successful? User experience is key to keeping your customers engaged and happy. It begins with the first-ever interaction a user has with your product and continues throughout the user journey until they decide to leave.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Good design is good business.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

PDMA is a global community of professional members whose skills, expertise and experience power the most recognized and respected innovative companies in the world. Target customer 2. User experience (UX) Write down your hypotheses in each layer then test the product with customers to see where you’re at with product-market fit.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She has two degrees from MIT and a ton of practical experience. Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2020

Companies work to unlock the story of their brand , to tell the story of their target customers, use data to tell stories about their industry or provide further insights. Just like an author can be an excellent storyteller, a master of narrative structure, the great authors of our time are more than just great storytellers.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If This focuses on answering three questions: Who is the customer? Every person involved in the process needs to understand your customer, their needs, and how your solution meets those needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

You can spend months working on a great idea, pour tons of time and energy into crafting the perfect marketing, but without customers your business will cease to exist. All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition. Want more advice like this?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Such insight, and their acquisition of such continues broadening, then helps informs competitive user engagement strategies. User loyalty is the natural result. Definitely not! How To Attract User Research Prospects.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

If we implement a new feature, how will customer behavior change in a meaningful way?”. We wanted to jump into this hot topic to see if we could marry our practical experience with Josh’s framework. Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: Narrow your definitions. You’ve got to be applauded for that.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want to delight our customers in everything we do. I’d bet that at least 75% of those reading this post would say that “Customer Delight” is somewhere in the top 3 stated goals of their company for the year. The Diluted Definition of Customer Delight.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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. But the one conversation that people often tell me they find uniquely insightful is our discussion on finding product culture fit.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

And if you’re trying to guide your teams toward being more empowered and autonomous, this is a process that takes dedicated time and commitment. She regularly shares her learnings and insights on LinkedIn and recently took some time to chat with Teresa for this Product in Practice about her teams’ experience with continuous discovery.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I can even remember a time or two when we lost a deal because our attempts to differentiate with technical explanations made us sound like the worst solution. The easier way to differentiate your product and highlight superior value is to shift the value narrative from customer problems & features to customer outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. Product marketing focuses on getting products into the hands of the right users, whereas product management focuses on developing the product. Let’s dive in!

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2019

Consider these scenarios for a moment: Scenario 1 : Supermarket giant, Tesco launches a mobile app for customers. It serves the purpose of a virtual grocery store for customers who are time-pressed to go and shop physically. More importantly, note that they are using various digital platforms to adapt to dynamic times.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In this new era, digital transformation and the digitization of customer experience are a must for most businesses. In this article, we’ll cover: What digital customer experience (digital CX) is and how it compares to regular CX? The benefits of digitizing your customer experience, including its effect on revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

A great partnership between product and sales needs to be based on shared definitions of success and an agreed upon process to collaborate. Marketable – be attractive enough to differentiate itself from competitors. Justifiable – demonstrate its value as being greater than its cost (time and money) to the customer.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Merging into a single customer base, looking for cost efficiencies from a combined team, increasing profits because of the reduction in price-competition in the market. To do this, the team must align on the definition of success for the acquisition. You cannot define the solution of a problem without first defining the problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. Steli Efti on understanding your customers. Adam Risman: What do you remember most about the earliest days of going and selling this product to customers? What didn’t?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

TL;DR Value-based growth is a strategy that prioritizes delivering value to customers. The approach makes your company more customer-centric , improves customer satisfaction and retention , and gives you a competitive edge. A robust customer success strategy enables customers to get the most out of the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. Where should you invest your resources?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. This is what we did.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Berlyne As product managers, we have all enthusiastically dived into customer feedback, hoping to find insights that will take our product game to the next level. Yet, time and time again, we hit a wall. It fails to deliver valuable insights, game-changing ideas, or even just a decent overview of what users need.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

Product releases are still the execution phase but everything works better when priorities across all products are synchronized to target customer needs in the company’s highest priority markets. It’s a logical question but the answer is a definitive no. Definitely yes but it’s not as complicated as you might think.

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