Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

A product manager’s guide to breaking free from reactive problem solving Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Doug Hall, master of turning chaos into clarity, we explored how product managers and innovation leaders can break free from reactive problem-solving and create more value through proactive innovation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. This happened when I started to learn about UXR for the very first time back then in 2020.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What is Product Discovery? Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. What makes the product stand out?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2025

Why customer support is an overlooked differentiator Product features, pricing, and branding all play key roles in differentiating your organization from the laundry list of competitors, but theres one often-overlooked factor that can make or break customer loyalty: how well you support your customers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. 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. Teresa: Okay.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Questions product managers ask me about how to improve innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers are pivotal in driving innovation within organizations. By mastering these areas, product managers can improve their skills, boost their influence, and contribute more effectively to their organization’s success.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s been drilled into our heads time and time again – as product people, we know that we are not the customer. What follows is that we need to get to know our customers, to figure out what their problems are, how they perceive & prioritise them, and how they react to the solutions we [.].

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Market research is the process of gathering information about your business's buyer personas, target audiences and customers. Market research also helps to provide a deeper understanding of the varying market factors, such as the nature of the market, the problems of the users, and the value of what you are building.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There’s nothing worse from a personal and business perspective than investing your time, money, and effort into an idea, only to find out no one wants it or needs it. Similarly, there are also many products that should have failed but didn’t. This limits your risk of having to make costly changes to your product later on.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

In the dynamic world of SaaS, creating a robust product feedback loop is essential for continuous improvement. Whether you’re launching a new feature or refining an existing one, gathering insights from users ensures that your product aligns with their needs and expectations. The product feedback loop.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

The product trio leads discovery. Being thoughtful about product discovery means staying on good terms with others throughout your company. Product trios can often encounter resistance when rolling out the continuous discovery habits. They don’t understand if the customer’s going to like it.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 27, 2020

Three phases of pricing for product managers. A lot of product managers are not very involved in pricing decisions. Our guest, Ben Malakoff, learned how to price products and in this interview he shares what you’ll need to know to be part of pricing decisions, increasing your influence. 6:39] Market Research.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

First-to-market features drive deeper engagements to increase customer adoption, retention, growth, and advocacy. February 14, 2023 – Alchemer – a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology – today announced the launch of Alchemer Workflow. LOUISVILLE, Colo.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As you study the people who use your product or might use it, patterns start to emerge. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer? . -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I’m confused.”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests. But it is less suited to create complex digital products. The Brave New Agile World.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. First, they’re not as easy to find as they used to be and even if they are, you still have to take the time to train them, and then they’re only with you for a short time.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak upends lives and businesses everywhere, support teams are increasingly the first place that customers turn to for guidance. Our new research reveals the impact it’s had on these teams. Some of our own customers are experiencing up to 10 times the number of new chat conversations.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”. How long does an application have to prove itself, before the user moves on to something else? “The Sounds simple, right?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Todd Lombardo reminds us that as product managers we often make bad decisions. The key to minimising these, he says, is effective product research. Key points: All product managers make bad decisions. Todd explains that even the most experienced and effective product managers make bad decisions.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. They also enable targeted user engagement and improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Guest Post by: Hansa Vagadiya (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Ladislav Bartos]. Recently, I participated in a product management mentorship program run by The Product Mentor. Think of your product management career development as a new product that is going to be released into the market.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

How can product teams leverage the product discovery process to create products that satisfy genuine user needs? This article explores every stage of the process and shares some of the best practices that will help product managers deliver delightful user experiences! That’s step 6.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Usability testing is an invaluable resource for UX researchers…but only if you’re able to recruit participants in the first place. This is a problem that our own UX researcher at Userpilot, Lisa, faced when she tried recruiting participants the traditional way. Recruiting usability test participants via email.

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