Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Getting enamored with our solution can distract us from the customer experience.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

We do this because it is difficult to predict whether a feature will indeed help us meet a particular outcome. Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. Today we are not meeting the level of usage that we expect for our product. Customer impact should take precedence.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

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. Customer feedback drives iteration. Customers needs change faster than you can build. And customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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Product Talk

JUNE 15, 2022

Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. If you’re not regularly talking directly with your customers, you increase your risk of building a product that no one wants or needs. Regular touch points with customers are a pillar of continuous discovery. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. We had meetings to discuss opportunities for new products.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers? How do you represent customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? What if you are being asked to deliver more than one outcome? How do you find opportunities?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. The future of support is here.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2020

As support teams look to the year ahead, there’s no shortage of priorities to juggle – from team efficiency, to customer experience, to business impact. Customer expectations are on the rise and, at the same time, all parts of the business are facing increased pressure to operate more efficiently and at lower cost.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2020

As customer success managers, we wear many hats. We need to stay on top of market trends and product updates, all while making sure our customers become wildly successful. During times of rapid change, juggling everything on our plates, along with everything on our customers’ plates, can feel like a herculean task.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. However, the pressure to jump from customer research straight into a solution can lead you down the wrong path. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Great e-commerce experiences for customers are built on speedy responses, instantaneous gratification, and convenience – this is no easy feat to provide. Sense their frustration?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. But over time, customer needs evolved. I will discuss why in just a second.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. How do we know when a pain point is worth pursuing?

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Meet two fictional startup founders, Sally and Jim. They love finding fresh podcasters with original points of view. Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Both my co-founder Brian and I experienced pain points when we were buying engagement rings. We’re building a new digital product that’s the first of its kind for custom jewelry design online.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Product Manager Steve Cheshire. He also works with design and leadership on the medium-term strategic space, helping decide and define future initiatives that will unlock value for their customers and prospects. For this post, we caught up with Steve Cheshire , a Product Manager at Pendo.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 6, 2021

He is Howard Tiersky, author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. He founded FROM, a digital transformation agency, which has won over 100 awards for user experience design, including for their work redesigning the Avis app which is now ranked by J.D.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 29, 2021

Customers want to be heard. Product feedback is the ideal way to hear from specific customers and understand their needs before they move to one of your competitors. Proactively gathering feedback allows you to quickly identify and solve their pain points. Create products and release features customers want.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. But only if we use the right methods.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This role also focuses on increasing the retention rate for existing customers. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Asking the right product discovery questions helps uncover the deeper needs driving user behavior and expectations. Falling victim to confirmation bias: Assuming solutions fit users create blind spots.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

If I had to make a blanket statement, it’s that most founders and product managers don’t listen enough to customers or iterate enough based on customer feedback. However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2023

Time to prioritize the whole Customer Journey (CJ). Products that delight customers and fuel growth loops are essential. But with the rise of digital channels, customers interact with businesses in multiple ways that drive the overall experience. It’s about Customer-Led Growth. It’s all the above simultaneously.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Design with your customers, design with your constituents, not for them. Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? He said, “If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would’ve said faster horse.” Tweet This. Did we get it right?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For Dan Gingiss , at least, investing in your defense – the customer experience – is the smartest move you can make. He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Customer insights enable SaaS teams to understand them better and build products that satisfy their genuine needs. From the article, you’ll learn about different kinds of customer insights (from product analytics and only) and the benefits of gathering them. Let’s dive right in! Book the demo to find out how!

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

Our students work on challenges like improving employee engagement, encouraging knowledge sharing between teams, making meetings more effective, and so on. In the product world, that means our customers and our end-users. We need to understand their needs, pain points, desires, wants, goals, and motivations.

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