August, 2020

article thumbnail

Brand Identity For Product Management & Product Marketing: 5 Components

Product Management University

Strong brand identity builds trust and motivates people to buy your products and services. In B2B organizations the same concepts apply to product management and product marketing teams for the same reasons. If you lead a product management or product marketing team, creating a strong brand identity allows you to define your value to the organization and establishes the criteria by which you want to be held accountable.

Branding 165
article thumbnail

Key Differences Between the Role of a Product Manager in Startups vs. Large Enterprises

Product Management Unpacked

Companies of all sizes across industries are looking to hire product managers. With this in mind, company culture, resources and the specific demands of different roles probably play a big part in your decision to take a product management position at a company. While there is a key set of skills that every great product manager has, each specific role comes with its own demands, challenges and priorities.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Product Management Stock

The Product Bistro

A topic that often comes up is where to find new product managers, and often people with certain titles are mentioned. But there are other important or more important) considerations.

article thumbnail

Deciding to be a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Addressing the gap between understanding of product manager and customer — a great motivator to become one. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

A Brief Guide to this Article. This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

Vision 322

More Trending

article thumbnail

Conversational design for better products

Intercom, Inc.

We all know what a conversation between two people sounds like. “Hey, can you help me a sec?”. “Sure. What’s up?”. “I just can’t make sense of this dashboard.”. Human conversation is a sequence of verbal exchanges – what linguists call turn-taking. This rhythmic exchange is deeply hardwired into our social neurophysiology, as call-and-response bonding in animals is likely hundreds of millions years old.

article thumbnail

Why Collecting, Analyzing, and Acting on the Voice of the Customer is Important Right Now

Alchemer Mobile

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published a lot of material around listening to your customers and finding effective ways to capture, analyze, and act on the voice of the customer (VOC). And we’ve seen many top brands fully embrace this strategy to help guide their coronavirus responses, pivot their product roadmap, and impact their customer communication.

article thumbnail

The Hidden Costs of Constantly Shipping new Things

Mind the Product

I worked for 8 years at a successful startup called Base CRM. It was acquired by Zendesk 2 years ago. During this time I saw the company take different approaches to many problems startups have, but one remained unchanged: unparalleled, obsessive focus on shipping new functionality. Lately, I’ve been thinking a bit more about a [.]. Read More.

Startups 254
article thumbnail

Remember Successful Features

The Product Guy

It’s easy to take notice of your failed features, but don’t lose sight of those initial successes, you may be missing some big opportunities. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

article thumbnail

Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

article thumbnail

Your Customer Testimonials Are Missing a Wheel

Product Management University

All customer testimonials pretty much follow the same blueprint. Customer background. The problem the customer was facing before our solution. Our solution and how it solved the problem. Benefits to the customer and success metrics. These elements are important parts of the story, but they still beg the question, So what? The Playbook: Customer Testimonials: The Wheel That’s Missing.

article thumbnail

TEI 294: Crafting Customer Experience and Innovation with The CEO Time Machine – with Goeff & Zoe Thatcher

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know to create powerful customer experiences. The experience customers of our products encounter impacts the value they find in our products. The customer experience is intertwined with customers’ perceptions of value. To explore customer experience, I talked with two people who design the customer experience for theme parks, zoos, museums, and other venues.

article thumbnail

Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

In the past few months, the world has changed in many ways. The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a much-needed dialogue about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog.

article thumbnail

Why Mobile Customer Feedback is More Important than Ever for Finance Brands

Alchemer Mobile

Mobile-first finance companies are disrupting the market left and right – especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we saw DAU (daily active users) stay pretty consistent for traditional banking apps since the pandemic hit, it spiked for budgeting apps and other mobile-first brands. If you’re one of these brands, I have a question for you: What are you doing to meet your customers where they’re at and collect their feedback?

article thumbnail

Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

article thumbnail

Machine Learning for Product Managers – A Quick Primer

Mind the Product

Currently, there are thousands of products, apps, and services driven by machine learning (ML) that we use every day. As was reported by Crunchbase, in 2019 there were 8,705 companies and startups that rely on this technology. According to PWC’s research, it’s predicted that ML and AI technologies will contribute about $15.7 trillion to global GDP by 2030.

article thumbnail

Applying Empathy to Build Great Teams

The Product Guy

Empathy is an indispensable skill that product managers can utilize to get deeper understanding of user needs, gain better alignment among stakeholders and build high performing teams by cultivating a culture of collaboration and respect. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Tauheed Ahmed, lead a conversation on this topic.

article thumbnail

Product in Practice: Iterating to an Actionable Outcome at tails.com

Product Talk

Hello Product Talk readers, we’re excited to share the latest Product in Practice with you! For this story, we caught up with Sonja Martin , Product Manager at tails.com. Sonja shares how her cross-functional team has changed their approach to defining their desired outcome over time. Want to check out the other posts in this series? You can find them here.

article thumbnail

TEI 296: Better product testing – with Luke Freiler

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know about customer validation and alpha, beta, and delta testing. Product testing is about more than determining if a product functions properly or not. A larger perspective, and one that our guests shares is Customer Validation. We discuss how to use the various types of product tests, including alpha, beta, and delta tests, to judge product performance, customer satisfaction, and areas for improvement.

article thumbnail

Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

article thumbnail

Not investing in localization is costing you more than you think

Intercom, Inc.

For many companies, the word localization typically prompts two thoughts: it’s costly, and it’s time-consuming. Localizing a product for international expansion means making all aspects of that product accessible to the market you’re looking to enter – from language translation and adapting product UX to offering multilingual customer support, and beyond.

article thumbnail

Meet the MS in Product Management Class of 2020

Product Management Unpacked

Discover what's behind this year's outstanding cohort.

article thumbnail

What World Class Product Management Teams Do Differently, By Jeff Lash

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Jeff Lash (VP & Group Director at SiriusDecisions – acquired by Forrester) gives some insight into high-performance product management teams. Studying high-performance teams is important, but one must understand what the right things to replicate are. His key points include: Customer Understanding Product Portfolio Investment Decisions Product Innovation and Lifecycle Process [.].

article thumbnail

Where It Is At

The Product Guy

On the first day understand where your product and team is at. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Tanya Koshy.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Product Management Stock

The Product Bistro

It has been a while since I have picked up pen and drafted a post, but I came across a Tweet last week that really made me pause and think. As a Product Mentor, I've seen these career paths to Product Management: – Business Analyst – Product Marketer – Software Engineer – Visual/UX Designer – Project Manager What was your path?

article thumbnail

TEI 297: How to be a forever employable product manager – with Jeff Gothelf

Product Innovation Educators

Five steps to securing success in product management in an uncertain world. Are you taking steps to make yourself more valuable to your organization or the next organization you want to work with? Arguably, all the topics we address on this podcast are about career development, helping you improve in product management and innovation. However, occasionally we focus on the topic head-on, and with the impact of the pandemic on organizations, creating opportunities in some cases and hardship in oth

article thumbnail

Take back your time: How to unlock the hidden value in your calendar

Intercom, Inc.

One of the most finite resources we have is time. And as an Executive Assistant, one of my top priorities is to ensure my leaders not only have enough time in the day, but are able to be effective, efficient, and productive. Helping them accomplish this isn’t an easy task, but it’s fundamental to their success. Allow too many meetings to pile on to their calendar, and they face some serious hydration and bladder issues.

article thumbnail

Not Everyone Has to Be Your Customer

The Product Coalition

I’m sure you all know that, but knowing and doing are very different things. Here is a quick guide on when and how to let go. SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Unpacking Fintech Product Management – User Mindsets and Regulatory Requirements

Mind the Product

Are you looking for a lightweight introduction to product management in fintech? Have you wondered why shipping fintech products takes more time than shipping other products? Or have you ever asked, “what sets fintech product management apart from other product management jobs?” If the answer to any of the above questions is “yes,” this article will [.].

article thumbnail

Curiosity Driven Product

The Product Guy

Start with asking questions and being driven by your curiosity in at the start of any new product job. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Kirsten Jepson.

article thumbnail

21 Mobile Product Management Resources

Alchemer Mobile

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. The Apptentive community has been on the front lines of the changes to mobile product management, and as a result, has been eager for content to advance their skills.