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The 7 Ts of Product-Led Transformation

ProductPlan

Transformation is a word that isn’t commonly favored by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. However, Transformation Programs incur significant costs. According to the CIO magazine, Global spending on digital transformation technologies and services was $1.3 trillion in 2020 of which 70% of that spend is wasted.

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Are AI Writing Tools Going to Conquer the World?

DevelopmentCorporate

AI writing tools are here to stay. Market leader Grammarly just raised $290 million at a $13 billion valuation. Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and its GPT 3 technology. I have seen firsthand the benefits of basic AI-enabled writing tools. On a year-to-date basis, my blog traffic is up 21%. While AI writing tools may have some drawbacks, they are not going to conquer the world.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. From learning more about their career path to predicted trends to general tips and advice, there’s no shortage of lessons to be learned that can ultimately help you develop and become a better product expert yourself.

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Make better decisions faster: The 6 stages of quick, effective decision-making

Intercom, Inc.

Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains.

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Harnessing Mobile-Led Growth: The Case for Mobile App Performance

In an increasingly mobile-first world, successful mobile apps have become a key driver for business growth. However, many companies still struggle to find success in the highly competitive mobile market. While many factors determine the success of a mobile app, one of the most important and often overlooked is app performance and its effect on the user experience.

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Thankful for Product Management

The Product Bistro

I am taking a week off of work to help with some issues with my aging father, and have a fairly slack day. Since it ’tis the season to send thanks, I thought I would indulge in a - for me - rare reflection of things I am thankful for professionally. My original entrance into Product Management I was an early 30’s applications engineer who jumped into the that role from life as an analytical chemist and process engineer at a wafer fab.

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Cultivating a Product Mindset: How “No” became “YES, if…” became “Yes, IF…”

The Product Coalition

One of the hardest lessons a product owner has to learn is when to say no. Many people who seek a product role do so because the idea of what is possible entrances them. The type of person who looks at what exists and finds fulfillment in realizing their vision of what it could be. That kind of mindset clashes with the need to keep a well-groomed backlog that admits only a fraction of the requests customers send your way.

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Welcoming new senior leaders to Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

I’m excited to welcome three new senior leaders and a new Board Member to Intercom, to help deliver even more breakthrough value to our customers at an exciting moment for the company. We welcome former Smartsheet CMO Anna Griffin and former Lumileds Chief Legal Officer Cheree McAlpine to the executive team as Chief Marketing Officer and General Counsel respectively.

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A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members

First Round Review

Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a community like a product.

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Designing a successful product marketing strategy

Mind the Product

With the right marketing, a company can know its product's place. This step-by-step guide will help you to design a successful product marketing strategy for customers old and new. [.] Read more » The post Designing a successful product marketing strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Setting Goals for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L. was the COO of a Series C startup.

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Getting Into Product

The Product Guy

The most effective way to become a product manager is to work on a project you are passionate about (even a hobby) and bring it to market. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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From concept to user: the complete guide of UX research

TryMyUI

Form concept to user, this guide will take you through everything you need to know about UX research, from its methods to how it benefits your company. We'll even touch on when and where UX research should be used. The post From concept to user: the complete guide of UX research appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Product design: Let’s get emotional

Mind the Product

This Sunday Rewind, we travel back to a 2018 and a post by Terry Corderio where he suggests a variety of ways for us to 'get emotional' when designing our products. [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Product design: Let’s get emotional appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Startup Vanity Metric Trap

The Product Coalition

Few people are strangers to vanity metrics. Focusing on the wrong metric for a startup however, can be detrimental to the startup. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Leadership Tip 16: Decide When to Choose Power-With or Power-Over

Johanna Rothman

All decisions are a form of power. We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. Not only that, we also choose our jobs, who we vote for, and where to go on vacation. We have a ton of personal power. Healthy teams often need to decide together. They use power-with, where people decide what to do as collaborators.

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7 reasons to join Productboard’s Toastmasters club

ProductBoard

Meet new people. Advance your career. Have fun. There are many benefits to joining Productboard. Free membership to Toastmasters International is one of them. This nearly 100 years old organization that helped many people become better versions of themselves through public speaking and leadership skills development. Here are our top seven reasons for joining Productboard’s Toastmasters club.

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Lessons from onboard mobile-app users

Mind the Product

An average smartphone user has 40 apps installed on their mobile phone, taking just two taps to pull your users away from your app and into another. The truth is that getting a user to download your app is only a small part of the battle. [.] Read more » The post Lessons from onboard mobile-app users appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Why You Should Hire an Associate Product Manager

The Product Coalition

APM (Associate Product Manager) Programs were a mainstay of the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley, and were a reliable entry point for aspiring Product Managers. However, thanks to the pande…yeah that thing…most of the biggest and most prestigious APM programs got put on hold. Even before the world went nuts, the APM job role got a little bit lost.

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4 Product Prioritization Frameworks & How To Use Them

Dragonboat

Due to having limited time and resources, every product manager must make difficult trade-off decisions when prioritizing their roadmap. Inspiration for new product features may come from a myriad of sources and as the list grows, it gets increasingly difficult to separate the best ideas from the rest. Fortunately, there are several product prioritization frameworks […].

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Design Courses: A detailed list of UX online and offline design certifications

TryMyUI

A UX certification is a great way to demonstrate your skills and knowledge of user experience design. In this post, we will be covering the best picks of 10 UX design certification programs with both offline and online modes of pursuing them and all the details required for the choice. The post Design Courses: A detailed list of UX online and offline design certifications appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Moving from PM to Founder – Alexander Hipp on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

This week on The Product Experience, we talked with Alexander Hipp — co-founder of Beyond, formerly of Xing and N26 — about why he made the decision from PM to Founder, what it's been like so far, and what he'd advise anyone making a similar decision. [.] Read more » The post Moving from PM to Founder – Alexander Hipp on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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How to Build a Brand on Amazon

The Product Coalition

Photo by ANIRUDH on Unsplash Amazon owns over 80 different private label brands. Even Amazon, one of the most powerful eCommerce companies globally, understands the use of leveraging smaller businesses. Establishing an Amazon brand has multiple advantages over selling other people’s products. This article will address many of those advantages. We will leverage the experience of Milos, a successful eCommerce, and Amazon specialist with five years of experience.

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Organizational politics: Good? Bad? Here’s what you need to know

Nulab

The term ‘organizational politics’ probably conjures up images of cliques and office gossip. But there’s much more to it than that. Organization politics refers to the personal agenda of an individual within a company. As you’ve probably guessed, it can spell trouble. When dysfunctional politics spiral out of control, it can be enough to sink an organization.

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Building and scaling successful product ops teams

ProductBoard

Building a successful product organization is a lot like cooking, says Anabela Cesário, Director of Product Ops at OutSystems. Making lasagna for 100 people as opposed to a family of four is not just about increasing the amounts of ingredients you use. You also need to streamline some processes (and get better tools) or else you’ll end up with a giant mess.

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The exponential age by Azeem Azhar

Mind the Product

In this keynote, entrepreneur, investor, and author of Exponential, Azeem Azhar, describes how technological innovations bring exponential change across the cultural, social, and economic landscapes. [.] Read more » The post The exponential age by Azeem Azhar appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. The most important takeaway is that like many other startup founders, Startup V (named changed) too had a clear technology vision for the tech-driven farming concept but had missing strategies, goals & measures spanning across managing the partner ecosystem

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UX researcher vs UX designer: How to tell them apart?

TryMyUI

Both UX designers and UX researchers are important for product developing tasks. In this blog, we will look at what the differences between UX designers and UX researchers are and when you might want to use one over the other when designing your product or service. The post UX researcher vs UX designer: How to tell them apart? appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Need Motivation? Make a Price Pact

Nir Eyal

Probably the only research paper I’ll ever call “delicious” is one called, “A Tale of Two Pizzas.” In the study, researchers offered one group of people plain pizzas, plus the option to add ingredients for an additional charge. To a second group, they offered topping-loaded pizzas, with the chance to remove ingredients and pay less. Same thing, right?

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