Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution.

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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. Product Roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Which problems solve user pain points faster? Is it worth pursuing and will it actually bring value to the customer? This is where your roadmap comes in. A roadmap takes items in your backlog and provides strategic information as to the opportunity these ideas can provide. How will you measure success?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With all the best practices out there, improving CX without a customer experience roadmap can get overwhelming. Building a roadmap can help you understand your customer’s point of view, determine the CX tactics you should apply, and prioritize the tasks with greater returns. Design the customer journey map.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Want to learn how to create a robust UX roadmap for your UX team ? We also discuss the benefits of UX roadmaps, present different types, and share top tips for building them. TL;DR UX roadmap is a strategic plan outlining UX initiatives and guiding the UX design process. UX research aims to identify specific user pain points.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Product roadmaps are essential tools for assessing opportunities and defining how we accomplish our objectives. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. A roadmap example.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data. How do you build one?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At its core, stakeholder management is about building strong relationships, fostering trust, and ensuring that everyone is working toward the same product vision. Their directives may override data-backed insights or customer needs, leaving PMs to balance the demand for quick wins with long-term product strategy.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even more strategic when customers use both, right? Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? 80% of your value story is built around things customers do and why they do it, not your products. There’s still something missing though. What is it?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. TL;DR Meagan Glenn, Senior Program Manager (Success and Product) at Lavender, shares valuable insights on leveraging customer feedback in an interview with Userpilot. Customer feedback should come in daily from various sources.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 23, 2025

Through our work, we see firsthand how founders navigate the complexities of scalingbalancing product development, customer acquisition and investor expectations. VCs are looking for businesses with clear market pull, strong customer traction and efficient use of capital. Would the user would leave their job if your tool didnt exist?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ Asking the customer to use a service that makes decisions for them means asking them to trust you.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Benefits of a product strategy framework include better alignment between product development and business goals and improved user satisfaction. Start by defining product vision and mission to give clarity to your team and determine the right direction to move. It helps them make decisions that align with overarching business goals.

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Mind the Product

JULY 29, 2019

This caused product innovation to be a low priority and the quality of the customer experience to stagnate. Meanwhile, user experiences elsewhere have advanced rapidly through new technologies and improved product practices. Timelines imposed by the regulator therefore need to be factored in to the roadmap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. Building great products is a collaborative process that works well if everyone agrees on the product vision and strategy. Foremost you want to openly preach the product vision. Another problem is bias.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, his belief in his product vision drove him to solve a real problem experienced by thousands of women. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. When you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to ensure that you test it yourself (eat your own dogfood) before offering it to any beta customers.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

The platform and web application he works on, finfire, connects Netfonds with their customers, their clients, banks, and insurers. To begin his continuous discovery journey, Sebastian wanted to get access to customers. I was just saying to stakeholders , ‘I need to talk to customers now!’”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. At its core, UX strategy serves as your guide for crafting experiences that genuinely resonate with users and encourage them to engage.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

It is a critical framework for product teams to ensure that their products meet customer needs and are delivered on time, within budget, and with the required quality. During the product discovery stage, product teams gather customer feedback , conduct user research, and analyze market trends to inform their product decisions.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

Why should you adopt a customer-led growth strategy in your SaaS? Is it possible to increase user engagement by focusing on a customer-led growth strategy and hit the metrics you are hoping for? Specifically, we’ll consider: Three reasons why the customer-led growth approach is the best go-to-market strategy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. But are you solving for actual customer problems? These all point to internal deficiencies in planning rather than problematic execution.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

One of the few times a product manager really gets to take center stage and show the fruits of their labor is when they’re presenting the product roadmap. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. A compelling roadmap can inspire the company and set a positive tone for the future.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. A traditional product manager prioritizes understanding customer needs and market trends. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. How do you gather customer feedback today? Christy: Yeah.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

In an era defined by relentless innovation and unprecedented customer expectations, the nature of financial services marketing has changed. Todays customers expect financial brands to deliver deeply personalized, seamless digital experiences at every touchpoint, consistently reinforcing what they stand for.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. These include: Engineering?—?What

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Customer journey maps, story mapping, impact mapping—there are lots of ways to externalize your thinking. Principle 1: Encourage Teams to Discover Opportunities through Continuous Customer Touch Points. Discovering opportunities through continuous customer touch points is one of the guiding principles of continuous discovery.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. To create an effective product strategy, you must first study the market to understand your target users and make sense of market trends.

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