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511: Product insights from employee #1 after a $2.3 billion exit – with Chris Elmore

Product Innovation Educators

He critiques traditional hierarchies, suggesting they can make it hard for innovative ideas to flow, especially ideas from employees who work closely with customers. A Simple but Powerful Definition of Innovation Chris offers a simple definition of innovation: “It’s better than what it was.”

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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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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

The discussion reveals how product management has evolved since 1931 and highlights the importance of clear role definition to prevent job frustration. The core focus of these activities is on thorough market research, continuous customer engagement, and strategic product development.

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Session Recordings 101: Definition, Use Cases, and Best Practices

Userpilot

Wouldn’t it be great to see all user interactions with your product as they happen? Think about all the insights you could gather to improve the user experience. Session recordings are digital recordings of user interactions with a website or app. However, session replay analytics tools don’t record users’ screens.

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Short and Sweet: A Deep Dive Into Concise Feedback Loops

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

We want our products to make a difference for our customers as well as our company. We also know that short feedback loops aid in replanning. But how long should those feedback loops be? These minimums will allow us to visualize value sooner and reduce product feedback loops. And how do we see all of those loops?

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Ask Teresa: What Should You Do With Insights That Don’t Come from Customer Interviews?

Product Talk

Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. If you’re not regularly talking directly with your customers, you increase your risk of building a product that no one wants or needs. Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

Its first section focuses on problem definition, clearly stating what the problem is and why solving it matters. This approach helped Doug build and sell an entire company based on insights from academic publications. This insight led to test number 73, which became their breakthrough success and is now patented in 51 countries.