June, 2019

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How Do You Disrupt Your Assumptions Before They Disrupt You?

DISQO

Most companies, whether it’s a Fortune 100 organization or a 50-person startup, are faced with the same problem: How do you account for what your customer wants, today and tomorrow? Last week, Alpha’s CEO Thor Ernstsson gave a presentation at the UX & Product Management Case Study Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, to discuss how organizations are hindered by their inability to make quick and data-driven decisions.

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Why Most Outcome-Based Roadmaps Fail (and How to Keep Yours From Doing the Same)

ProductPlan

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. Each major release or theme has an intended impact that can even be measured and validated. The problem with outcome-based roadmaps comes when the desired outcomes don’t actually accomplish what companies hoped they would achieve.

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How we set up our Team for Continuous Product Discovery

Mind the Product

The Dilemma With Product Discovery. Usually, we use a discovery period intending to understand the users’ problem, define a solution, and then decide what to build in the so-called “delivery” Many companies have their specific budgets for these week or month-long periods and a super-important meeting at the end of the discovery to present the findings to the leadership team so that they can decide on the next steps.

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Should Product Roadmaps Have Dates?

Roman Pichler

What Product Roadmaps Are (in a Nutshell). To start with, let’s briefly recap what a product roadmap is. I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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The Top Mobile In-app Feedback Tools of 2019

Alchemer Mobile

If you’ve landed on this article, you most likely already understand the immense value of capturing in-app customer feedback. The real challenge comes when you’re deciding how you actually want to execute on this concept and actually begin gathering mobile feedback in your own app. Where do you start? What tools do you use? How do you manage all of that data?

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How new technology is affecting SMBs

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Cayden Whitmond Now more than ever, the future of business is one shaped by fast-paced innovations to technology and the way that work is done.

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Product managers should not build the roadmap. The product team should.

Intercom, Inc.

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Product is Hard by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. There have been many successes and failures, and there are still lots more to come. Marty Cagan has worked at plenty of internet successes and failures, including eBay, Netscape and HP. He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products.

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Weighing in on the “CEO of the Product” debate

Product Management Unpacked

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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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6 Ways Your Business can Benefit from Negative Reviews

Alchemer Mobile

So, you’ve somehow received a couple of bad online reviews. Is your business doomed? Certainly not! Even big brands have had their fair share of angry outpour from disgruntled customers and survived. While larger companies’ reputations can sustain a few blows without actually collapsing, small businesses can’t rely on the benefit of the doubt to amortize customers’ wrath as effectively.

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How to Succeed at Product Management in the Face of Uncertainty

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Ben Chamberlain (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. I was frustrated when I started The Product Guy mentorship program. I felt by executing primarily on well-defined projects, my role was closer to project manager than a product manager. Serendipitously, the company changed direction and I was tasked to build a product with few concrete details and a great deal of uncertainty.

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Three steps toward creating market-leading products

Lead on Purpose

The goal of every company and product leader is to invent products (or services) that become recognized market leaders. Creating a new product category is icing on the cake, but also rare and extremely difficult.

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Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on marketing your product platform

Intercom, Inc.

We launched the Intercom App Store more than a year ago. And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. One of the most successful platforms we and many others in the industry look up to for inspiration is Slack. And in case you had any doubt about their phenomenal growth, the company is going public this week.

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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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Lean, Agile, & Design Thinking by Jeff Gothelf

Mind the Product

Good product development practices are supposed to be built upon alignment and shared understanding, Jeff Gothelf, Author of Sense & Respond tells us at #mtpcon Singapore. But often, organisations end up looking a lot like that painting in the classic scene from the movie Goodfellas : One dog’s going one way, the other dog’s going the other way, and this guy is saying ‘Hey, what do you want from me?

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How I Redesigned My Work and Life Around a Growth Mindset

Sachin Rekhi

One of the mental models that's had a huge impact on my life is the growth mindset. Coined by Carol Dweck in Mindset , the notion is that individuals either see the world through a fixed or a growth mindset. In a fixed mindset, you believe that your qualities are carved in stone. That your abilities, attitudes, and personality are largely defined by your innate capabilities at birth.

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How Mobile Apps Improve the Effectiveness of Customer Loyalty Programs

Alchemer Mobile

According to RetailMeNot, approximately 80 percent of customers are more loyal to brands that offer rewards programs and 70 percent are more likely to participate in a loyalty program if they can access it through their mobile device. Given this, 88 percent of retailers plan on investing more in mobile marketing than any other channel. Customers now expect to gain points and achieve milestones for purchases made through apps.

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Your Product Assumptions Are Probably Wrong

The Product Guy

Users are ‘divinely discontent’ and their preferences and expectations are a moving target. If you’re hypotheses are based on outdated research reports or media headlines, you’re probably making the wrong decisions. I’ll provide data to prove that. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation on this topic.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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3 Musts For Building Data Literacy

Piyanka Jain

A few months into his new role as Data Analytics leader, Alan and his team clearly saw the lack of data-driven thinking across the… Continue reading on Towards Data Science ».

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So you want to give a Ted talk?

Intercom, Inc.

There’s a lot of content and advice about giving presentations out there. Some of it’s really useful, some of it not at all. Intercom has been holding events for years now, from large scale World Tours to more intimate Building Intercom events, with our founders, leaders and teammates delivering acclaimed talks on everything from building software to scaling your customer support team.

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Empowered Product Teams by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

At this year’s MTP Engage conference in Hamburg I had the pleasure to introduce my personal product management idol Marty Cagan to our audience. He spoke about one of his favourite topics: empowered teams. He started by asking the question why more companies don’t truly empower their teams – because everybody knows that empowered teams are more successful.

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What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself

Sachin Rekhi

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. The first philosophy is often characterized by first setting an overall vision; then coming up with mutually agreed upon goals, often in the form of objectives and key results (OKRs), and holding teams accountable to those results; and finally delegat

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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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Four Challenges Finance Apps Face and How to Conquer Them

Alchemer Mobile

Convenient access to our finances is key in our global economy, and the mobile channel has quickly become the epicenter of customer experience. However, having convenient access to our finances at our fingertips doesn’t come without unique challenges. For example, privacy rules restrict the ways financial institutions can interact with customers through their mobile apps.

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Method to the Product Madness

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Terri Boshoff (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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What Google’s and SalesForce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for…

Piyanka Jain

What Google’s and Salesforce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for CIO’s The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics(BA) products which promises to solve for the entire workflow?—?data generation, data capture, data storage, data access stratified by persona and data visualization.

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Evolving your Product Management career ladder

Intercom, Inc.

Product Management is an elusive craft. We all think we know what we’re talking about, but when it comes down to it, the difference between great, good and not quite good enough can be pretty slippery. And what makes this even harder is that, because PMs own so few clear deliverables (such as code or designs), it can be tricky to pinpoint what exact impact a PM had on a team.

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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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In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Andreessen too gives us a vivid illustration of what product/market fit feels like in his post: “ You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening.

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How to write surveys for user research that aren’t terrible

Userzoom

When you use survey questions in your user research , you want them to be designed well. It’s really easy to make bad surveys, and plenty of companies do. Surveys are admittedly overused and often ineffective on their own — the self-reported data that you pull from survey questions is biased and has questionable accuracy. It’s typically much more valuable to gather insights from data on actual behavior and user interviews.

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Why Retail and Shopping Apps Need to Embrace Qualitative Feedback

Alchemer Mobile

For some mobile apps, earning high average app store ratings isn’t an issue. In fact, roughly 90 percent of reviews for most retail and shopping apps are four stars or higher. But where many fail is in acquiring and then using qualitative feedback. Although a high average rating can paint a pretty picture, it can also distract you from the richer customer feedback behind each star.