Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. With customer experience rapidly becoming a key differentiator , resulting in increased consumer loyalty, more revenue, and greater cost savings, it’s more important than ever to stand out or lose out. With empathy. “I

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. In addition, you might need these product strategies too: Product architecture, to shepherd the technical value of a product. As a guideline, I like to review the strategy every 6-12 months. Let's review. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example. Additionally, schedule regular collaborative strategy reviews —at least once per quarter—and invite the key stakeholders and development team members to them.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. Wyze’s tagline is to make great technology accessible. Today, we get to find out together as the VP of Product for Wyze joins us.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

1] As simple as this sounds, there is a catch: To create value with Scrum, you must understand who the users and customers are, why people would want to use and pay for the product, which business benefits it should generate, and, in the case of commercial products, which features differentiate it from competing offerings.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. Sentiment analysis is often used to review survey results from customer-service interactions, product reviews, etc. your users want to just tell your app what they want and have your app deliver on the request.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. This trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. This is made possible due to huge working capital and its integrated bundle of products e.g Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth. Let’s move the case.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

As new technologies emerge, as competitors offer new products or update existing ones, and as users’ needs evolve, your strategy has to change in order to proactively guide the product delivery and maximise the chances of offering a successful product. You should therefore regularly review your product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge. Continuous Strategizing. What would help your product perform well?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 21, 2021

Excellent execution can be a differentiator. Designing something to be better, but not necessarily different, can have huge impact and end up being a differentiator. On the other extreme, you have a company like Snapchat, who innovate at the UI level, as that is part of what defines and differentiates them. But it is not enough.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

This approach not only gave the brand man — eventually the brand manager — ownership of a given brand, but it also allowed P&G to better differentiate the various brands in its portfolio. His new product-centric approach called for dedicated teams, focused around a particular brand, each led by a brand man.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While technical skills are still essential, the ability to influence, negotiate, tell compelling stories, and lead with empathy is now a critical differentiator. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers). Soft skills. Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

Technical Perspective on API Platforms Due to the technical nature of APIs, most organisations and managers immediately turn to their technologists and engineers to understand how they need to deliver an API. You need it invested in your differentiators and value creators. Originally published at [link] on June 23, 2021.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

It may take a bit of a leap of faith to invest in a differentiation strategy that won’t immediately translate into ROI, especially in a pandemic, but you can’t sacrifice innovation and sustainability for short-term revenue. There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. Hello Paul.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

. – Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. I’ll do my best to update it as the technology evolves. The better we understand our customers, the better we can meet their needs, and the more we can differentiate our product from the competitors. But this is where I stand today. It’s not real.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The trouble is, you might not know until you spend some time reviewing your specific backlog. Tweet This Lucy Spence , a Senior Technical Product Manager at Octopus Deploy , wrote, “Depending on your comfort of sharing the data, it might actually be one of the situations that using AI to summarize key themes saves you a chunk of time.”

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Engineers and product developers often focus on the technical aspects of a product, but customers are mainly interested in what they get out of it. Key Considerations in Value-Based Pricing Differential Value: Understanding what makes your product different from alternatives in the market.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In a similar vein, 70% of end users say they feel more loyal to companies that provide support in their native language; there’s also massive upside to doing so if you consider another survey which found that 67% of customers are willing to switch brands due to a poor customer experience. What’s causing the disconnect?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Uniqueness of levers: Assess if the levers can have a unique and differentiated experience as a result of being built by the team/company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. Economic — Cheaper, Faster, Better?—?Typically,

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Unfortunately, despite their effectiveness, few employers make use of cognitive tests, maybe due fear it turns them off, or sensitivity to accusations of systemic bias. Bias hires toward formerly technical people because they communicate better with the engineers and they also can translate technical details into lay terminology.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Include CSAT scores from top technology companies. Include NPS scores from top technology companies. Include key features, existing customers, differentiation points, and user reviews. Include key features, existing customers, differentiation points, and user reviews. Understanding technical jargon 24.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Digital transformation is “the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach of enterprises”, according to an MIT and Capgemini white paper. Gartner says : “Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. The reduced technical uncertainty means PMs can focus on what matters most to them: identifying the right customer problems and solving them the right way at the right time.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With privacy concerns, AI-driven decisions, and increasing competition, trust is becoming the ultimate differentiator for PMs who want to build lasting customer relationships. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers). Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

Differentiation 150

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Photo by Alexei on Pxhere A few months after I joined Twiggle as the VP of Product, the CEO gave me a list of competitors to review. It impacted everything from the depth of the underlying technology to the product itself, the go-to-market strategy, and the entire business model. It wasn’t just a random selection.

Technical Review 139

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 3 Brand stretch.

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UX Planet

AUGUST 16, 2024

Whether the project is sparked by an urgent need to transition to the latest tech stack or a calculated rebranding effort, creating a comprehensive website redesign project plan is vital for success. Does your current website suffer from outdated technologies that hamper user experience? Are conversions on the site falling short?

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

Hamilton narrowly defines a successful strategy as creating a route to persistent differential returns for your business. A business that leverages counter-positioning adopts a new, superior business model which the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business. Counter-positioning.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Background, Criteria, and Decisions The following section describes a health-tech company “ZB Enterprise”, the considerations and culminating decisions. Technological considerations must include the collection and use of data.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. But if you’re going to build a differentiating social network, it really has to be at least a 10x or 20x differentiator. It can’t just be built on decentralized tech or made only for cat and dog pictures.

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