Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Our second book, Corporate Explorer Handbook , says that as management consultants and academics we don’t know all the answers. We wanted to make some of those tools more available to people. [7:22] 12:24] What tools have you seen resonant with organizations because they help them innovate better?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

TL;DR A customer onboarding manager is the person behind developing and implementing onboarding strategies to help SaaS customers move seamlessly from sign-up to effective product use. Userpilot is an all-in-one product platform with engagement features and powerful analytics capabilities.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

TL;DR A customer onboarding manager is the person behind developing and implementing onboarding strategies to help SaaS customers move seamlessly from sign-up to effective product use. Looking into tools for customer onboarding managers? Let’s get started! Book a demo to see it in action!

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

When new employees encounter fragmented communication, outdated tools, and a lack of clear guidance, they feel disoriented, unsupported, and in some cases, completely disconnected. Finally, outdated technology slows down the onboarding process. This disengagement can turn a promising hire into a costly mistake.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

In the SaaS industry, this role involves troubleshooting issues, guiding users through product features, and ensuring customer satisfaction by resolving their queries efficiently. Looking into tools for product support specialists? Userpilot is an all-in-one product platform with engagement features and powerful analytics capabilities.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

When I start to learn about product management, it seems PMs do a lot of things related to data, research, user experience, and dealing with other teams such as design, engineering, etc. It is crucial for product managers and UX designers to communicate and collaborate to research customer needs and envision solutions.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. This article will dive into how each department should own its own customer retention strategy – and how it should all fit together! TL;DR- 13 Customer Retention Strategies.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tools like Colour Contrast can validate your choices. Nielsen’s research reveals that users rarely read word by word; instead, they scan pages. Line Height Strategy: For headings, maintain a line height of 1–1.2 Minimize system response times, incorporating progress bars and animations to make waits tolerable.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy.

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Gainsight

JUNE 17, 2022

If you’re considering implementing—or have already implemented—a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, one of the first things you should determine are the metrics you’ll need to measure success. . How do product-led strategies contribute to business growth? . Since January 2020, PLG companies have outperformed standard SaaS growth by 2x.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Bobby Stapleton , our Senior Manager of Customer Support for North America, recently caught up with Annette to chat about getting to know the customer and why personas and journey mapping are the perfect tools to do it. Finally, and only when you have those two systems in place, you can (and must) start empathizing with them.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

He is frequently helping organizations succeed while also holding the role of Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We also looked at some other research by Mind the Product and by Richard Banfield.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Up until this point, to understand our customers, we had primarily relied on the Jobs-to-be-Done framework , product sense, research insight, sales input, and a belief that our customers were companies just like us. Download The Growth Handbook. Authoritative, actionable strategies on how to grow your business.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustainability Successful Growth by Clayton M.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

While there are a large number of tools which claim to help you to create value, for me, quite frankly, it boils down to only a few secret weapons which do not (most of the time) involve buying fancy software or subscribing to the latest project management doodads. Write a Handbook. Strategy Paper. Documentation Powers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

What you think the title might be sums how a lot of customers feel about their experience with SaaS organizations big and small when it comes to giving you their ideas, feedback & feature requests. Before I get to the practical stuff, let’s understand a bit about the situation most SaaS businesses are in right now. It matters.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Each product iteration is different, technology is ever evolving, and work environments change as well. The Plugged-In Manager: Get in Tune with Your People, Technology, and Organization to Thrive. Management books normally discuss processes and people and skip over technology. A true teacher would never tell you what to do.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

What makes Business of Software Conference speakers so smart? Current reading: I’m currently in the middle of reading a whole slew of books on JTBD, for the research I’m doing on the topic. Next up: Moesta’s Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook and Christensen’s Competing Against Luck. Like most smart people, they read a lot.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Our marketing strategies, positioning, and pricing all play a pivotal role in how our product is perceived and experienced. In product development, the type of evidence we rely on to build our products can make or break our strategy. Research the broader market, not just your current user base. Maybe, just maybe, it's not them.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 25, 2021

If you’re running a software company (or somehow involved in strategy) you’ll be familiar with the conversations and debates about what the “next killer feature (or product)” is going to be. 30th June Hangout: Creating Software Ecosystems (free attendance). What is Jobs-To-Be-Done? Learn more.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. Major Takeaways: Customer interviews can reveal things that no survey or quantitative research really could. Your Customers Need You to Put Yourself First: Listen to Them! This session was led by Violaine Yziquel, Sr.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

Product researchers and managers call these realizations of value “aha” moments. Take a look at the social giants Facebook and Twitter: they both realized they won’t get to a billion active users simply by optimizing their platforms for the ones who engage multiple times a day. Download The Growth Handbook.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Sometimes I write as an outgrowth of my benchmark research with results worth sharing for the greater good of our community. Over the past couple of years, a number of software companies have emerged with tools that are designed to help product managers do their jobs. Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

MAY 22, 2019

In other words, the field is still portrayed as having doubtful tenets and as trying to simply sell design as some sort of phony business strategy. Here we see service design working on a system level, with an overview of the different products, processes and touch points of the whole service. Telling service design apart from UX.

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Iteratively Blog

MAY 31, 2020

Time and again, folks have used product analytics tools to better understand their customers. In the end-user era , where you acquire customers by leveraging product-led growth, knowing what specific actions folks take in your product is instrumental in guiding your strategy across product, sales, marketing, and customer success.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 3, 2017

The process moves through identifying questions, creating solutions, storyboarding, prototyping, and testing with customers. Sprint gives examples of robotics, healthcare service, cancer research study matching, coffee, and a sports fitness mobile app. Tuesday – creating solutions.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

Be it re-inventing the wheel or trying out new stuff, but without solid foundations, direction and strategy. “Oh, However, it's likely that they are outdated regarding society/technology/design patterns or to only present high-level good practices that are more or less atemporal. That means that you will be wasting time and resources.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. Layer customer research and conversations on top of these discussions and the job becomes inherently more challenging. Don’t like switching contexts? Don’t like to take risks?

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The solution is to develop an emotional ‘hook’ that fundamentally changes user behavior. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques. Find the solution to the smallest component, then work your way up. ACTION : Make product design decisions using design principles, proven by research studies. by Nir Eyal.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. The first 10 books focus solely on product management theory and strategy, while the last 10 books focus on general problem solving and business strategy. by Nir Eyal. Buy it here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

This week we released The Growth Handbook , a collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons to help steer your company’s trajectory up and to the right. Even some of the other tools like Slack and Asana give great signals on whom I’m collaborating with. My email inbox is completely obvious.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

This week we released The Growth Handbook , a collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons to help steer your company’s trajectory up and to the right. Even some of the other tools like Slack and Asana give great signals on whom I’m collaborating with. My email inbox is completely obvious.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

People were just connecting with each other in such a benevolent way through this platform. It’s a very human-centered design agency that’s really involved in observing and researching people moving through the real world and informing designs with that reality. Bailey: One is that they are willing to give up control.

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