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The great fallacy: “I’m the CEO of the product!”

Mind the Product

Why a product manager should embody many traits of a CEO, but they are not the CEO of the product Read more » The post The great fallacy: “I’m the CEO of the product!” appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Portfolio Marketing – Strategic Product Marketing At Its Finest

Product Management University

If you had $1 for every time someone said, “we need to be more strategic,” you’d be a retired millionaire living on your own private island. Consider the fact that portfolio marketing just might be your ticket to strategic product marketing in its purest form, making everything a lot easier with better results. What is Portfolio Marketing?

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How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

Product Talk

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. We discussed a few of the common stages companies tend to go through when they adopt continuous discovery , some of the challenges and setbacks they’re likely to experience, and how leaders specifically can help teams ove

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Internationalising products: Experiences after building digital products for over 30 countries

Mind the Product

From displaying dates and times, local payment systems through to customer mentality, internationalising a digital product can be fraught with issues that trip up the unwary. Read more » The post Internationalising products: Experiences after building digital products for over 30 countries appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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How To Handle Communication in Big Companies

The Product Coalition

For about six weeks, working at a small company, I composed all my emails in rhyme. That would not have been a smart idea at my next job.

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Leading cross-functional teams – Tobias Freudenreich on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In this week's podcast, we were joined by Tobias Freudenreich, a product leadership coach and consultant based in Hamburg. This episode dives deep into the structure of cross-functional teams and explains how this structure can help us build great products that people love. Read more » The post Leading cross-functional teams – Tobias Freudenreich on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Continuously Connect to Product

The Product Guy

They interact with as many people as possible. They cycle back to those KPIs. They ask themselves is this something we should be working on. They are the great product managers. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Kirsten Jepson.

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What are Points of Parity & How to Use them to Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

While all the buzz may be around differentiating yourself, understanding your similarities to other solutions is just as important to product-led growth — if not more important. In this guide, we’re going to go over what points of parity are, why they’re important, and how to put the right strategies in place! TL;DR Points of parity are industry standards that products must share to stay competitive with each other.

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Pharmacy Product Managers Want To Become Care Providers

The Accidental Product Manager

Can drug stores transform themselves into a health care destination? Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that we all make use of the drug stores that are in our area. The big chains, like Walgreens and CVS seem to be just about everywhere. For the past few years the product managers at the big drug store chains have been struggling. More and more people have been ordering what they need online and are no longer making the trip to their stores.

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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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SUNDAY REWIND: Purpose-driven product by Bruce Haldane

Mind the Product

Gojek’s then Chief Product Officer Bruce Haldane talks about the importance of protecting the ecosystem through a global pandemic, and adapting to scale Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Purpose-driven product by Bruce Haldane appeared first on Mind the Product.

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We Surveyed 1093 Researchers About How They Use AI—Here’s What We Learned

UserInterviews

How are researchers using AI? Insights from a survey about the tools, use cases, ethical concerns, and guardrails for AI in UX research.

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Here Are Four Unconventional Suggestions for the Product Management Job Interview

The Product Coalition

Because sometimes, interview answers which sound counterintuitive can actuallybe the most impactful.

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453: Creating an effective and motivating product strategy – with Bob Caporale

Product Innovation Educators

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Our guest is Bob Caporale. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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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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Prioritisation in product: London highlights

Mind the Product

Prioritisation, prioritisation, prioritisation. A common challenge in product when juggling endless feature requests and managing teams. With our flagship event, #mtpcon London, only 7 weeks away, we look back at some of our most inspiring talks from speakers who have shared lessons on prioritisation. Read more » The post Prioritisation in product: London highlights appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Enhance Your Data Security with Single Sign-On for Mobile and Web 

Alchemer Mobile

Single Sign-On (SSO) and Survey Question Reordering now available for Alchemer Mobile and Web By Cathy Yang, Senior Product Manager at Alchemer, and Vanessa Bagnato, Director of Product Marketing at Alchemer In August and early September, we released updates to the Alchemer Mobile SDKs and Dashboard, including the availability of Single Sign-On (SSO) to improve your data security, survey question reordering to improve your survey designing experience, and updated colors and logo to the Dashboard

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The Balance Between Product Discovery and Delivery

The Product Coalition

Recently, a Reddit thread started an extensive conversation in a product management group I’m part of. It highlighted an alarming new trend in our field — the imbalance between discovery and execution. Reddit thread In my opinion — in the zeal to innovate and strategize, the pendulum has swung too far toward the discovery end of the spectrum. While exploring new ideas and hypotheses is undoubtedly vital, it has overshadowed the equally significant aspect of execution.

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Dragonboat Named to Will Reed’s Top 100 Class of 2023

Dragonboat

We cannot be more thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row, Will Reed has named Dragonboat, out of 2,500+ eligible Seed and Series A B2B tech companies, an early-stage company shaping the future of workplace culture. Since our beginning, Dragonboat has strived to empower people, employees, customers, and community members alike, […] The post Dragonboat Named to Will Reed’s Top 100 Class of 2023 appeared first on Dragonboat.

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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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Balancing long-term metrics and OKRs using the Product Strategy Metrics Sandwich by Tim Herbig

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Heidelberg Talk, Tim Herbig, a product management coach and consultant, provides a sandwich model to implement product strategy effectively. Read more » The post Balancing long-term metrics and OKRs using the Product Strategy Metrics Sandwich by Tim Herbig appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Unraveling the Fascination of Japanese Konbinis

freshtrax

This article will provide a glimpse into Japanese convenience store culture, and how these pillars of Japanese society strike awe in the hearts and minds of foreigners who live in or visit Japan. As the author, I have lived in and traveled around Japan for a total of eight years. So, in addition to providing general information, I will also provide my experiences of frequenting these stores.

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Why Don’t I Focus On One Project at a Time? And Why, as Leaders, You Shouldn’t Either?

The Product Coalition

“Focus on one project at a time.

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How to Improve the Customer Experience and Drive Repeat Sales

Amplitude

Learn how Amplitude can help marketers derive value from existing customers by driving repeat purchases with personalization.

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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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How to Reduce Planning Time to Create Better Goals at All Levels, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Now that we've dealt with the feature factory problem, it's time to address planning time. Here's the question again: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion.

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B2B Customer Journey Mapping Guide For SaaS

Userpilot

Interested in building a B2B customer journey map? It’s a challenging process, but the benefits are well worth it. At the very least, a journey map will help you easily analyze and make data-driven decisions to improve the user experience. It also helps align your teams by ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding customer interactions. In this article, we’ll cover B2B customer journey stages, how to build a B2B customer journey map, and the right tools to use.

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Spotlight Vision and the Diminishing Returns of Obsessive Customer Focus

The Product Coalition

Because not everyone finds a way out of the loop of reactive product development. In hopes of finding the next big idea, many turn to their most loyal users for feedback and inspiration. And often enough, that feedback leads to useful improvements. And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions.

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Mastering B2B User Research: Tips and Insights

UX Studio

Not long ago, we noticed an interesting trend: even businesses that had nothing to do with the usual tech sector were seeking UX studio’s help to improve their websites and apps. Even big B2B players (Business-to-Business) were interested in UX research. As we delved into these industries, we realized that our usual research approaches for regular B2C (Business-to-Customers) companies weren’t really cutting it.

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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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How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. What should the Scrum Master do?” Here are all the assumptions in this question: We need sprint goals.

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How to Build a Customer Experience Roadmap to Improve CX

Userpilot

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. So let’s explore deeply how to collect data, design a customer journey, and create a customer experience roadmap that will help you improve product adoption.

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What the Hell Is Shared Understanding Anyway?

The Product Coalition

We hear the term hundreds of times a week, but how can we build a shared understanding of exactly what shared understanding is? Build Products that people love The term ‘Shared Understanding’ has likely become irrevocably enshrined into the lexicon of software and product development. As product designers, owners, engineers, and delivery teams, we can often use the term with reckless abandon, daily.