October, 2014

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Common Mistakes in Implementing a New Product Management Framework; Tools for Product Management; ProductCamp Atlanta Recap

Good Product Manager

Common Mistakes in Implementing a New Product Management Framework. Based on our research at SiriusDecisions, we know that improving the overall product lifecycle management framework/process is a top priority for the coming year for many b-to-b product management leaders. This is certainly not a new trend. Some organizations have tried to improve their product lifecycle management framework — and their overall process used for innovation and go-to-market activities — over and over a

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The Importance of Developing Personas in Product Design

Sachin Rekhi

Sample personas from MailChimp. Personas are an important design tool that should be in the toolset of any product manager or designer. Personas are fictional characters developed to represent the different archetypes of users of your product. A persona typically describes the goals, pain points, behaviors, and psychology associated with members of a particular segment.

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5 Reasons To Invest in Training for Your Service Team

TSIA

It’s tough to get much return on investment (ROI), these days, so the recommendation to invest in customer service is often met with “Yes, I know we should, but…” And then there are the excuses “too expensive”, “not in the budget” or “the money is better spent elsewhere” So why invest in training?

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Do you have an organized Social Presence

SidsAvenue

So how many you are not using Facebook? How many of you have not heard about Twitter and Facebook? We all are social more on social networks then in the society. According to social media research, Facebook has around 1.11 billion users across the globe. LinkedIn has 277 Mn users, Twitter boasts of 200 million users and Google+ also says it has around 340 million active users.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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How do you hook your customers?

DISQO

Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these web sites. How is it that these companies, producing little more than bits of code displayed on a screen, can seemingly control users’ minds?

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Tools for Product Management; ProductCamp Atlanta 2014

Good Product Manager

What tools do you use for product management? What tools and technologies do you use for product management? How well do they work? At SiriusDecisions, we’re conducting a survey of b-to-b product managers and what applications they do (and don’t) use. The survey takes only about 5 minutes to complete, and in return for your participation, you will receive a complimentary copy of the forthcoming SiriusDecisions Field Guide on Product Management Tools.

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The Inertia to Innovation at Scale and How To Overcome It

Sachin Rekhi

Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to launch innovative new products not only as an entrepreneur at my own startups like Anywhere.FM and Connected, but also as an intrapreneur at Microsoft and LinkedIn, bringing brand new products to market at these established tech firms. Every established tech firm aspires to bring the innovation culture that’s so native to startups to their own organization, but often struggles to do so.

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6 Steps to Skyrocketing Your Service Delivery With Journey Mapping

TSIA

Journey mapping is a company diagram that illustrates what customers truly want when it comes to service delivery and product involvement based on actual customer experiences. The more touch points customers receive, the more detailed the map. The purpose of customer journey mapping is to understand service delivery from start to finish so that companies can improve their processes for exceptional customer service.

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How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth?

UserTesting

Today’s guest post comes from Sean Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Qualaroo and founder of GrowthHackers.com. Enjoy! UserTesting’s own Hannah Alvarez recently posed a question over at GrowthHackers.com regarding the importance of UX within the larger framework of growth hacking … The post How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth? appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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How do you hook your customers?

DISQO

Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these web sites. How is it that these companies, producing little more than bits of code displayed on a screen, can seemingly control users’ minds?

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Follow. Break. Transcend.

Product Manager in Heels

I was fortunate enough to attend UX Fest 2014 at Fresh Tilled Soil just outside of Boston. It was an awesome event and helped me rethink how I've been doing product management. C.Todd talked about 'Shu-Ha-Ri' during his talk on Making UX Top of Mind. Shu-Ha-Ri is a term that comes from martial arts and is a way of thinking about learning new techniques and methodologies.

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How do you hook your customers?

DISQO

Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these web sites. How is it that these companies, producing little more than bits of code displayed on a screen, can seemingly control users’ minds?

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The State of Knowledge Management: 2014

TSIA

Originally published on Ragsdale's Eye On Service - Today at Technology Services World I am releasing the results of my August knowledge management survey both online, and in my Power Hour session at 4:15. The data shows that companies continue to find enormous potential in knowledge management, but are often thwarted by corporate culture, and tend to blame technology for process problems.

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Actionable Insights for Your Product Team

Great product management starts with great teams. Our free assessment tool reveals where your team excels and uncovers opportunities for growth across six key dimensions: Context, Investigate, Define, Create, Deliver, and Leadership. In just 10 minutes, gain actionable insights that show you exactly where to focus to improve performance, drive outcomes, and strengthen your team in key areas.

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4 Steps to a Successful Go-to-Market Strategy for Managed Services

TSIA

Developing global go-to-market strategies to push technology services, especially managed services sales , frequently leads to a complex and resource-consuming development process, all too often with disappointing results. The best approach is a clearly structured, “fast-track” method that encourages teamwork, which has been proven to result in new ideas and strategies, and in some cases, increased sales.

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3 Reasons Why Your Current Knowledge Sharing Process Isn’t Working

TSIA

According to McKinsey , 20% of your workweek is spent looking for internal information or trying to get a hold of someone who has it. An employee-facing or customer-facing knowledgebase seems like the most logical solution to this problem, however the way we currently implement them clearly isn’t working.

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Thinking Outside the Industry: Improve Performance With Benchmarking

TSIA

In an ideal scenario, companies could put all daily operational duties aside in order to look to the future and develop a strategic plan for delivering breakthrough performance in the coming years. In reality, many operational leaders simply don’t have the time, luxury, or resources to look very far into the future while still maintaining their daily operation.

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Escalation vs. Collaborative/Swarming Support Models: Which is Right For You?

TSIA

The technology industry is changing all around us, especially when it comes to customer expectations. Instead of purchasing new technology, customers are purchasing solutions with the added requirement that support organizations be responsible for facilitating their success. Companies that recognize these changes and embrace them in their day-to-day operations are going to be the ones that survive and thrive in this new environment, but how can this be achieved?

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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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[Infographic] Optimizing Your Support Delivery

TSIA

In TSIA’s 2014 Customer Success Baseline Survey, we set out to discover what key practices companies are using to drive customer success delivery and performance. Using industry responses, we were able to identify three distinct profiles of customer success organizations (CSOs) as well as establishing a baseline set of performance results and metrics.

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[Infographic] 5 Signs You're Creating Customers for Life

TSIA

Congratulations! Through blood, sweat, and maybe even a few tears, you’ve acquired a new customer. Chances are, you’ve invested a good amount of time and money to do so. What you may not realize is that on average, it takes just over three years to recoup the initial cost to acquire and get to profitability with that customer.

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Ignite Your Service Revenue With Expand Selling

TSIA

Recent industry-wide trends have shown that the top 50 technology companies are experiencing shrinking revenue by as much as $8 billion. Revenues are flattening as technology companies shift their business models to include cloud computing subscriptions. From TSIA’s perspective, new playbooks are needed in order to make this difficult transformation and begin delivering profitable revenue growth.

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The mobile app treasure trove: 32 usability resources

UserTesting

The reviews in the App Store and Google Play can be ruthless. If your app has a poor user experience and gets bad reviews early on, your chances at success are shot. You’ll want to make sure you’re building an … The post The mobile app treasure trove: 32 usability resources appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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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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The mobile app treasure trove: 32 usability resources

UserTesting

The reviews in the App Store and Google Play can be ruthless. If your app has a poor user experience and gets bad reviews early on, your chances at success are shot. You’ll want to make sure you’re building an … The post The mobile app treasure trove: 32 usability resources appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth?

UserTesting

Today’s guest post comes from Sean Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Qualaroo and founder of GrowthHackers.com. Enjoy! UserTesting’s own Hannah Alvarez recently posed a question over at GrowthHackers.com regarding the importance of UX within the larger framework of growth hacking … The post How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth? appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Testing and Redesigning Yelp, Step 1: Product Definition

UserTesting

Last week, we gave a sneak peek at our upcoming eBook, UX Design in Action: Testing and Redesigning Yelp’s Website. In this eBook, we teamed up with UXPin and Optimal Workshop to imagine a redesign of Yelp, starting with … The post Testing and Redesigning Yelp, Step 1: Product Definition appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Testing and Redesigning Yelp, Step 1: Product Definition

UserTesting

Last week, we gave a sneak peek at our upcoming eBook, UX Design in Action: Testing and Redesigning Yelp’s Website. In this eBook, we teamed up with UXPin and Optimal Workshop to imagine a redesign of Yelp, starting with … The post Testing and Redesigning Yelp, Step 1: Product Definition appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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Maximize Supply Chain Spend & Asset Utilization with Innovative Test Automation

Connected devices are emerging at an explosive rate exerting pressure on larger operators; however, some organizations cannot continue to purchase the latest & greatest devices without ramifications. The introduction of automated test technology drives the optimization of supply chain expenditures leveraging forward & reverse logistics paths. Adopting innovative test automation tools addresses these challenges by providing robust solutions for testing the interoperability, performance, & securit

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UserTesting and the Agile Manifesto

UserTesting

At the crux of every great digital experience, you’ll find a person. Someone who needs something. Someone with expectations and demands. Someone you have set out to help in some way. Just about every organization whose leadership has uttered the … The post UserTesting and the Agile Manifesto appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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UserTesting and the Agile Manifesto

UserTesting

At the crux of every great digital experience, you’ll find a person. Someone who needs something. Someone with expectations and demands. Someone you have set out to help in some way. Just about every organization whose leadership has uttered the … The post UserTesting and the Agile Manifesto appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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What is the difference between MVPs and experiments and why does it matter?

DISQO

We’ve talked about MVPs extensively in this blog, but an often overlooked point is that they are only one component of a much larger framework. Understanding the importance of an MVP is just as important as launching one. It’s all about user feedback. The goal of an MVP launch is not to launch the first version of a product. It’s simply to start gathering feedback and observing users actually interacting with something.