Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s difficult to find a SaaS company that isn’t already in the niche you wish to enter! The solution? Vertical SaaS! Vertical SaaS has had a tremendous run during the last decade. Why is Vertical SaaS on the rise? Spotify is an example of regular SaaS ; you pay to conveniently locate and stream music.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. Vikas was able to provide me with a framework for developing product strategy, which ultimately revolves around answering the fundamental question of “how do we win?” Where do we play? How do we win?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM. His early research involved a simple but powerful method: asking customers to compare products. This framework made innovation more predictable and effective. He started exploring what makes innovation successful.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. Observational research : Watching users engage with the product, e.g., through session recordings.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. Second and even more important, the process of doing market research even if you have a fulltime person doing it, is still terribly time-consuming and inefficient. Summer Intern Anyone?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2016

Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. Markets – my segments, their problems, and how to reach them with my solution (and if they are big enough for me to make money). Revenue and profit – how my solution will generate top and bottom line dollars.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ? Product managers used to do the upfront market research, product planning, and requirements definition work.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. But how can you build the right product research tech stack to achieve your product growth goals? Qualtrics. UXPressia.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. It can and should exist with any framework or process.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. It’s a framework to make quick, painless, and informed judgments about your idea so that you know whether it’s worth pursuing. Market research Every product design cycle should start with a robust research phase.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. A big part of our job is finding these market problems, customer needs and desires. Let’s call it a “solution.”. Market research. Which ones should you create solutions for.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and analysis tools to help teams gain deeper, more relevant insights into their users’ desires and complaints.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Outline a marketing plan to promote your product across multiple channels and drive sales.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. However, selecting a framework or creating one from scratch can be very confusing.

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Userzoom

JULY 31, 2019

The research industry is no stranger to buzzwords. So when I began bumping into mentions of ‘blockchain and research’ during season five of Silicon Valley , I made a mental note to pay close attention. I always encourage people to focus not on trying to understand the underlying technology but to understand what it enables.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center. This practice also invites you to think of your business goals and current technology limitations. Identify and assess market opportunities, by researching market gaps and trends to tailor profitable products.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They’ve developed an insights platform to facilitate collaboration between market researchers, UX professionals, marketing managers, and product leaders. You have to understand finance, technology, and customers. I map our platform’s value to customer needs and bridge the gap between the two. [13:10]

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you searching for the tech and design partner you can trust while building your mobile app together? As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). Out of that,I was forced to actually talk to people and learn through very different methods and tools. Are these all software? Right now, I teach mostly.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” Quantilope specializes in consumer insights technology, offering a platform to help businesses understand what consumers want and need.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. We can see that such innovations face a chasm between the early and the mainstream market. Crossing this chasm decides if the innovation will become a success or has to leave the market.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

She condemns the SAFe framework, which separates the role of product owner and product manager, asserting the former as tactical and the latter strategic. Start today, by analysing all the information available – customer and user research, market research, and user data. Preparing for the C-Suite.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Userpilot can help you monitor user behavior and collect qualitative feedback with in-app surveys. User research methods to identify user requirements Analyzing user needs is an integral part of building a product that stands out from the crowd. Here are a few user research techniques that’ll come in handy: 1. Book a demo now.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2024

Instead of a traditional B2B software or physical piece of hardware, their products are programs, IT services , university websites (internal and external), or even actual curricula, to name a few. Generative AI is one such technology that is rapidly changing how students, teachers, and administrators interact with systems on campus.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. Product teams advocate strongly for users: they’ll gather customer feedback, conduct market research, isolate a clear target market, and ensure new features are built to directly address user needs.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

The product management jobs-to-be-done framework relies on the idea that the customer is ready to spend money on a product only when it helps them complete a particular job. According to the framework, customers don’t buy products but only hire them when they need them. What is the origin of the jobs-to-be-done framework?

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Is a SaaS product growth strategy essential to a modern business’s survival? What SaaS product growth strategies can you implement to get there? That's exactly what we'll cover in this article: what is a SaaS product growth strategy and what are the main growth strategy types. What is a SaaS product growth strategy?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

After all, when you know exactly what metrics are growing, what market leaders are betting on, how and what budgets are spent, what marketing solutions are chosen, what practices should be implemented and what to focus on in the near future, life becomes better. Marketers succeed in personalization in real time.

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