August, 2021

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

Product discovery is becoming a trendy topic in the world of digital products. Why? What is it? And what do you need to know about it? I’ve got you covered. This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is often defined in comparison to product delivery. We typically define product discovery in contrast with product delivery.

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How to align our stakeholders as a Product Manager

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Aligning stakeholders is a well-known challenge among the Product Manager community. At some point in our careers, we have all struggled with this.

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Product Vision FAQs

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. You can think of it as a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) —or a moon shot—that inspires people and offers continued guidance for the next five to ten years. Say I wanted to create a product that helps people become more aware of what and how much they eat.

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The Two Keys to Improving Mobile Customer Experience

Alchemer Mobile

For many customers, their first interaction with a brand happens on a mobile device, so creating a stand-out mobile customer experience is key. We turn to our phones first in many circumstances, especially when we’re out and about. And even when we’re at home, we are often looking at our phones while watching TV, cooking dinner, working out, etc. Chances are, you’re reading this on your phone right now.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Shipping fast and safe: Building a culture of low-risk learning

Intercom, Inc.

Here at Intercom, we believe in shipping as quickly as possible. . It breathes life into your engineering team, and teams across the company, as customer issues and requests are resolved quickly and efficiently. But here’s the caveat: you can’t just ship fast, you have to make sure your team is equipped to ship safely. . Why do we ship fast? We’ve always shipped to learn at Intercom.

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Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book

Product Talk

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. My primary objective across my business is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. When I set out to write my book, I was focused on a specific opportunity : “I’m not sure what discovery tactics to use when.

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How To Identify A Weak or Strong Product Organization?

The Product Coalition

When companies decide to “become agile” they usually don’t have another important question on their agenda. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Manager Job Rotation With Customer Success – A Win-Win-Win!

Product Management University

Is there any good reason not to have a regular cadence of product manager job rotation with customer success managers? I can’t think of a single one. On the other hand, there are five good reasons why it should happen as a standard operating procedure and three benefits that go beyond both roles. 5 Reasons for Product Manager Job Rotation. 1. Product Managers Are Starting Their Careers in a Huge Deficit.

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7 Key App Marketing Strategies

Alchemer Mobile

Even if you are an experienced marketer, it is important to note that app marketing is a totally different ball game, complete with different players and rules. With 6.4 billion smartphone users worldwide (yes, that’s roughly 80 percent of the population!), mobile app marketing is a must. To help you navigate the landscape of mobile app marketing, here is our starting lineup of seven app marketing strategies that are proven to be effective. 1.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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Revealing our refreshed brand: How (and why) we’ve updated our look

Intercom, Inc.

Your brand is how your company presents itself to the world, but inevitably there will need to be slight adjustments needed along the way. A brand is not a singular design element, font, color, illustration style, or icon. ( Your brand ? your logo , for example.) Rather, it’s a system of interconnected elements that represent how your company looks, feels, and acts, and which combine to create a consistent, recognizable, unified personality.

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Challenges in product – Merissa Silk

Mind the Product

Over the last 15 years, chief product and technology officer, Merissa Silk, has gone from New York media to Australian finance to German fintechs, with a number of stops in between. She joins us on the podcast to talk about what she’s learned along the way, including: Working in different cultures and industries, Influencing executives, [.] Read more » The post Challenges in product – Merissa Silk appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Scooting Out of the Way

The Product Guy

Sometimes it is just too early for product management. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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10 Visual Models That Let You Simplify The Most Complex Ideas

The Product Coalition

Busting Complexity For Product Managers Photo by Pavel Neznanov on Unsplash The days of the Colored Markers and huge whiteboards are long gone. I realized after lockdown that long meetings carrying intensive discussion were a luxury. It's a new era of short calls and packed schedules. Every meeting is expected to start with an agenda and end with Next Steps.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Create the Right Conditions for your Innovation Team to be Successful

Strategyzer

As part of our “What makes a good innovation coach?” webinar , Aya Caldwell (Executive Director for Digital Product at Novartis) shared with us three areas of focus she's constantly working on with her teams to create the right conditions for innovation success.

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Learn How Dunkin’ Uses Apptentive to Improve Mobile Customer Experience

Alchemer Mobile

Back in 2019, the Apptentive team had an opportunity to sit down with the team at Dunkin’ to learn more about how they use Apptentive to improve the Dunkin’ customer experience. We found that with Apptentive, the Dunkin’ team is able to quickly create meaningful product changes, deploy important communication to customers, and consistently keep a pulse on customer sentiment.

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Nailing your customer support interview at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Preparing to interview for a new job is challenging. It takes time, energy, and foresight to anticipate what you might be asked. And if you’re like me, you’re probably left wondering afterwards if you said the right things or shared the right examples. . When we’re looking for our next incredible support teammate, we want to set up every candidate to give the best interview they can.

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Early and often: the secrets to product success

Mind the Product

Businesses today are more competitive than ever—constantly working to innovate and dominate a particular market. But oftentimes, businesses rush to get their products out the door without understanding what’s needed to build an offering that will truly benefit their target customer base. According to renowned innovation expert Clayton Christensen, there are over 30,000 new products introduced [.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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A product is not the product

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

‘Product’ is not just the final product we ship to the customer (the WHAT), but also the way we ship that to the customer (the HOW).

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3 Tips in Developing a CRO Workflow to Maximize Conversions

The Product Coalition

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is key to any marketers hoping to improve their website’s performance and marketing campaigns… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How to Escape the Vicious Cycle of Distraction

Nir Eyal

You have time for everything, even if it doesn’t feel that way. People are always saying “there aren’t enough hours in the day” to get stuff done. And yet research suggests that the average working American has four hours of leisure per day. If we have so many hours to play with every day, why […] The post How to Escape the Vicious Cycle of Distraction appeared first on Nir and Far.

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How to Collect More In-App Feedback (and What to Do With It)

Alchemer Mobile

Your customers are already on their phones – meet them where they’re at through in-app feedback collection. This eliminates the amount of steps customers have to take to give you feedback, which further increases the number of people willing to give you that feedback. In-app feedback is also immediate, so you get insight into what’s happening in real-time.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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From vanity to value: How Intercom conducts NPS surveys

Intercom, Inc.

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity). But all too often the way the underlying data is collected makes NPS little more than a vanity metric, easily rigged to give the impression of positive customer sentiment, leading

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Meet your new best friend: Product ops

Mind the Product

Product ops is a new function on the product team designed to shoulder some of the load, creating processes that scale as the company grows, and freeing up product managers to focus on strategy and execution. But while that might sound amazing, it’s a challenge to draw lines when product managers have been so used [.] Read more » The post Meet your new best friend: Product ops appeared first on Mind the Product.

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12 Frameworks for Finding Startup Ideas — Advice for Future Founders

First Round Review

Hoping to start a company someday? We’ve gone back through our archives to surface the best advice on problem selection from first-time entrepreneurs and repeat-founders.

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Product Discovery Playbook

The Product Coalition

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation. A Product Discovery for a new feature will likely run a little differently to a Product Discovery for an entirely new venture.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Steal These 3 Advertising Secrets–To Use As Motivation Hacks

Nir Eyal

You can create some powerful motivation hacks by learning techniques from the persuasion business. The reason why you hate being micromanaged by your boss is the same reason why, as a kid, you refused to put your coat on when your mom told you to bundle up. We’re all wired with a knee-jerk “don’t tell […] The post Steal These 3 Advertising Secrets–To Use As Motivation Hacks appeared first on Nir and Far.

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18 Product Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. To understand specific hurdles people working in product face, we surveyed 500 product managers and asked them to weigh in on their biggest challenges.

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A decade in the making: An oral history of Intercom’s first 10 years

Intercom, Inc.

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Intercom. A decade ago, a small group of friends — our co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee — realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing online business just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Intercom was born out of a desire to make internet business personal.