Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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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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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. 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. You are teaching us to talk to users, but I am a Product Owner.

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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. Having a dedicated career ladder for product managers allows them to see their path to the C-Suite.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. Nevertheless, the product owner is often regarded as a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog, detailing requirements, and interacting with the development team. Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ?

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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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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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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” By the end of this post you’ll have a much better context for thinking about “the product.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. His early research involved a simple but powerful method: asking customers to compare products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

How to successfully transition to a product management role Watch on YouTube TLDR Transitioning from one career to another is full of challenges, especially when the two fields seem vastly different. This diverse experience, she found, was not unlike working in a product environment.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Let’s take a look at what product development is and what are its stages. Product Development is the process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and launching a new product or service. It involves a set of activities that are performed to bring a new product or service to the market.

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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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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. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 23, 2022

Is your product work based on what Sales wants, what an Executive or other HiPPO wants, what your competitor is doing, some insights gained about your customers, or something else? While we all have constraints, insights about the people using our products and the needs they have help us develop better products.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2019

Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators. If you take that as your guidance, almost by definition, you will never do better than a me-too product. Another misunderstanding is thinking of VOC as any kind of market research. VOC is actually a subset of the entire field of market research.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. To kick off the series, we interviewed Rachel Allen , Director of Product at Omnitracs.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 7, 2020

How product managers can empathize with customers and colleagues in five steps. You’ve heard it before, product managers need empathy. Clearly, empathy is important, but not all product managers have gained this skill, and others are not using it correctly. . 32:04] Step 5: Using Solution Imagination.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. In a few weeks, the name of this podcast will be changing to Product Masters Now. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Amazon is such a company.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Skills to move from product manager to Chief Product Officer. Today we are talking about the role of CPO, Chief Product Officer, and the skills and capabilities that help you move from product roles to a CPO role. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:11]

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Discover the smorgasbord of tools for product managers and innovators. We were there to prepare for the New Product Development Professional certification from PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [4:07]

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UX Studio

JUNE 27, 2024

Research helps answer tough questions, so knowing when and how to use UX research vs market research methods is crucial. In this article we answer: How can you distinguish between different types of research? What characteristics define market research vs UX research? Not really.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2024

In today’s ultra-competitive landscape, your product development strategy is a roadmap that helps you navigate the journey from product idea to market success. In this article, we present a product manager’s guide to creating and successfully executing a product development strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

The product development life cycle is an exciting and complex process. Understanding its different stages can help you transform a simple idea into a finished product. This article will break down the stages of a product development life cycle and tools that can help you deliver a great product.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2024

The product management function in higher education is in a unique spot in its industry. At first glance, higher education may not seem like an industry that needs a product team filled with product managers. However, universities and colleges are the perfect places to employ product management principles.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2021

But before you debut the product of your efforts, there are some important considerations to make before your drop date. Here, we’ll take a look at the product development questions you must ask yourself before launching any new product. Who is our target market? What solution does this product offer?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How product managers can go beyond the obvious in VOC. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. We are with Kristyn Corrigan.

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