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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

Understanding OKRs: From Intel to Modern Product Teams The evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) began at Intel during the 1970s and 1980s, where Andy Grove transformed the traditional Management by Objectives (MBO) system into something more dynamic and outcome-focused. Tune your OKRs to what’s happening in your business.

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I Mid-summer test.

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How to Make Product Management for Enterprise Systems Work

Mind the Product

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. This discovery challenged a common assumption that machines would struggle with the emotional aspects of customer research due to their lack of human empathy.

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Let’s Make It Better: Solving the Real Problems That Matter

The Product Guy

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. Picture a neighborhood struggling with low engagement in public events. By asking, What systemic issues are contributing to this problem?

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Setting up Product Teams for Success

Roman Pichler

Unlike a product launch, its therefore not an event but a process, which might last from several weeks to a few months. As its name indicates, the team is now productive and does a great job at working towards its goals. [7] To understand if the launch of a product team was successful, ask yourself the following questions.

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Now you can automatically initiate surveys driven by key business events

Alchemer Mobile

With the addition of Alchemer Workflow Initiators to Alchemer Workflow, you can listen to events from your third-party enterprise software such as Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk, and others – to automatically initiate surveys and feedback requests in the context of your customer’s or employee’s experience.