The Product Bistro
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The role of Product Management brings many responsibilities, some great, some awful, and many that are just “there” One of the “there” responsibilities is forecasting. Being at the center of the organization, Product Management is the logical focal point for this activity, even though it requires input from groups outside their control. i.e.
UX Studio
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Creating a digital product from scratch can make for an exciting process but never a smooth ride. But by doing the right research at the right time, you can get the information you need to advance. Easier said than done… Is it not just a question of market research vs user research? We wrote this to help you choose the right research methods more easily.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
In talking about how a product goes from idea to shelf on an “ Inside Trader Joe’s ” podcast, Matt Sloan, the VP of Marketing Product for the neighborhood grocery store chain, tells the story of his visit to Canada years ago, to a factory which made soup to be sold in frozen “pucks”. Sloan wondered whether other products could be made in the same way.
Alchemer Mobile
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Most mobile app enthusiasts are well aware of Apple’s native rating prompt that was introduced with iOS 10.3 and made mandatory with iOS 11. At Apptentive, we believe in making it as easy as possible to leave feedback, so we were excited to see Apple acting in the spirit of fewer interruptions; reducing the time to leave a rating and review; and putting an end to leaving the app to share feedback.
Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA
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The Product Bistro
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The role of Product Management brings many responsibilities, some great, some awful, and many that are just “there” One of the “there” responsibilities is forecasting. Being at the center of the organization, Product Management is the logical focal point for this activity, even though it requires input from groups outside their control. i.e.
Product Management Today brings together the best content for product management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Summary: Communities of practice can be powerful tools to enable both individuals and organisations to increase their effectiveness. By bringing together people who share a common interest or passion, new skills are learned and developed. People are often put in situations where they’re empowered, but they don’t know how to move forward. Sink or swim is often used as the management justification for this.
Alchemer Mobile
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
By now, marketers and product owners in every space understand the importance of listening to their customers. Being available to gather and respond to customer feedback is becoming more the norm for most companies, but it doesn’t mean it’s getting any easier to take on alone. Partnering with a customer feedback platform to help you listen and respond to customers allows for a more targeted, strategic, and dollar-efficient approach to gathering and acting on feedback.
Ask Benny
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
How to effectively build and manage your roadmap and your stakeholders’ expectations. The Roadmap Challenge I recently participated in a meetup of very experienced product management leaders arranged by ProductX. We discussed roadmaps and the challenges surrounding them. Even though all of these product managers have years of experience it seemed like the challenge is still fresh as in their first days.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
We recently launched Answer Bot , an intelligent chatbot that provides precise answers to customers and which successfully resolves 29% of your most common frequently asked questions, right there in the Intercom Messenger. It was the culmination of a huge amount of work by multiple product teams, and vast amounts of research by our machine learning experts.
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Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
As a teenager in the 90s in the US Bible Belt, you didn’t have to look far to find someone wearing an iconic bracelet with 4 simple letters: WWJD. This was meant to remind Christian youth to constantly evaluate decisions in their daily lives against the question, “What Would Jesus Do?”. It was intended to be an encouragement to be kind and treat others as you would want to be treated.
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.
Product Management University
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
When you know your customers as well as they know themselves, three things will happen. Your solutions deliver value that’s indispensable. Your marketing messages speak directly to the agendas of influencers and decision-makers. Your salespeople are treated as trusted advisors. Consistent growth and profitability (and great products) are the result.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Our conversational chatbot, Answer Bot , is designed to do more than chat. Its purpose is to let you scale your business faster and more efficiently. How? By automatically and instantly resolving your customers’ most common questions, so your team can focus on the conversations only humans can resolve. If you are using Intercom or live chat on your website already, you’ve probably received a number of conversations where customers just say “Hello” or “Hi”, and then it’s up to your team to figure
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
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Have you ever worked in an environment where one part of the business didn’t talk to the other? Are your Product and Engineering teams pushing (or pulling!) in different directions? Does your Marketing team know what is happening in the Contact Centre? Does Logistics know what has been happening on the website recently? Does the HR team know what direction your Product is going in?
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Over the course of a great product management career, one receives a ton of great advice. What could rank higher than … don’t just say “no”? Join us as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.
Miro
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
We recently caught up with Brady Flynn, product management expert and co-founder of Primer, a marketing platform that has helped companies like hims, Farmstead, and Microsoft increase their conversion rates. Brady shared what he’s learned from helping early-stage startups. Here are his tips for accelerating growth. Here at Primer, we started with customer development and […].
Andrew Chen
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
[Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? We answer, emphatically, yes! Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. From “Unbundling Craiglist” to “Uber for X” – we lay it all out in a single framework.
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.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Imagine this: You’re in the middle of developing a product when you realize you’re going to miss the launch date. That’s never happened to you, right? Well, according to the Center for New Product Development , “the average new product development project exceeds its schedule by 120%.” So why does this happen, even to the best of us? We’ve All Been There.
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? Let’s learn and discuss how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research, before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Harikrishna Menon, lead a conversation on this topic.
Business of Software Conference
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Rahul Vohra, CEO & Founder, Superhuman. About ten minutes in to this talk by Rahul Vohra, CEO and Founder of Superhuman, I tweeted… I’m getting a feeling I might be listening to a genius. #BoS2018. — (@MarkLittlewood) October 3, 2018. This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter.
Amplitude
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Creatives are notorious for defying measurement. Sayings like “You can’t rush creativity” and “I’m not a numbers person” make it seem like design is all subjective magic. Well, if your work is subjective, your value is too. Unclear value is the reason design does not always have a seat at the table. It’s the reason design is the least staffed position in product organizations.
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Miro
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Irene Au (Khosla Ventures) on facilitating companies’ growth with good design Great design is no longer just about how a product looks and feels, but how a company understands and listens to its customers, how it hires and organizes its teams, and how it anticipates and accounts for change. No one is more aware of […]. The post Irene Au (Khosla Ventures) on facilitating companies’ growth with good design appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.
AB Tasty
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
As a process, a method and a way of thinking holistically about CRO programs, science might just be the antidote - if all of us CRO practitioners would just embrace it. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as We Live in a Post-Truth world, and Conversion Optimization is Paying the Price.
ProductPlan
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills. In fact, any discussion about product management soft skills should presuppose you’ve already mastered the specific abilities required for the job: the hard skills. But what are they? In this post, we’ll address some of the hard skills we believe product managers should develop.
Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
What is the Internet of Things, anyway? Although most companies, analysts, and media outlets constantly talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), a large number of professionals struggle to understand what it actually is. Without a clear definition of IoT, companies and professionals are missing the shared language necessary to align people (internal or external) […].
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.
Product Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
How product managers combine process and metrics to achieve a successful product launch. Do you participate in launch planning, or what may also be called go-to-market planning? In some organizations, product managers are directly involved, but not always, and that is a waste. You’ll hear why in this discussion, along with six elements addressed by a go-to-market strategy: Defining the target market.
Pragmatic Marketing
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
An interesting pricing article appeared in Skift, SeaWorld’s Price Cutting Strategy is Fueling a Comeback. The title says a lot, but the details in the article are even more fascinating. They lowered ticket prices and attendance jumped. First, that deserves a big duh ! But wait a minute—isn’t Disney raising prices? Why would Sea World be lowering them?
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….
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