article thumbnail

517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

article thumbnail

Product Manager Demos – 3 Reasons They Have To Be Great

Product Management University

The biggest reason product manager demos need to be great has a lot more to do with internal stakeholders than any other audience. Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for product managers, but most product manager demos are to internal audiences.

Demo 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Product Management is Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

You’re gathering customer feedback, hitting your OKRs, and tracking every metric imaginable. Users churn, innovation stalls, and your team feels like theyre running on a never-ending treadmill. The Broken Playbook For years, product managers have been told that success comes from mastering a core set of tools and practices.

article thumbnail

Importance of Customer Segmentation when Building New Products

The Product Guy

There is no such thing as placing too much importance on your customers. Customers are the oxygen for any business model. One of the primary goals of any business strategy is to identify and meet needs of the customer. Customers differ widely from each other in various aspects. Collecting the data from various sources.

article thumbnail

Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

There are various frameworks and tools that are designed to help product management teams understand what to build, but somehow teams are still shipping products that don’t gain traction. Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation.

article thumbnail

Problem Solving as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2) What should I solve?

article thumbnail

Ask Teresa: For Customer Interviews, Who Counts as a Customer?

Product Talk

Whenever I introduce the topic of customer interviews (the foundational element of continuous discovery ), I get a lot of questions about who counts as a customer. Tweet This Ask Teresa: Who counts as a customer? Customers can vary depending on your company and product. Tweet This Let’s look at a few common scenarios.

article thumbnail

How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. It’s no secret, only 13% of salespeople are satisfied with their CRM. Leading integrations that fit directly into your CRM and workflow.

article thumbnail

Feedback: The Secret to Innovating Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad

As product managers, we all seem to experience similar pain points in our day to day lives. We all struggle with stakeholder conflict, constant feature requests, failed launches, unexpected outcomes, unhappy users, and complexity. In this session, you will learn: The reasons behind product management pain points.

article thumbnail

The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. When teams solicit and act on customer feedback, they can cycle through ideas quicker, and find the best ones sooner. Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle.

article thumbnail

Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers. Specific techniques for analyzing SaaS products.

article thumbnail

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

article thumbnail

The Magic of Intent: Start Knowing The Goals of Your Users

Speaker: Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, Zalando, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher, Zalando

It's important to know your users - what are their preferences, pain points, ultimate goals? With user research and usage data, you can get a great idea of how your users act. The tricky part is, very few users reliably act the same way every time they use your product.