Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2022

While this shift was already underway, the rate of digital transformation is now happening much faster than previously predicted due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology capabilities were one of the key factors of business success during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic”. This trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. With customer experience rapidly becoming a key differentiator , resulting in increased consumer loyalty, more revenue, and greater cost savings, it’s more important than ever to stand out or lose out. With empathy. “I

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

Technical Perspective on API Platforms Due to the technical nature of APIs, most organisations and managers immediately turn to their technologists and engineers to understand how they need to deliver an API. You need it invested in your differentiators and value creators. Originally published at [link] on June 23, 2021.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. But if you’re going to build a differentiating social network, it really has to be at least a 10x or 20x differentiator. It can’t just be built on decentralized tech or made only for cat and dog pictures.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As technology continues to reshape consumer behaviors and preferences, some have begun to question the value of personas as a tool in the product manager’s arsenal. Consider the case of Pat, a diligent product manager who struggled to get their development team to empathize with users.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Hmm… If you find yourself at this moment, then you are already in a bad place.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. The reduced technical uncertainty means PMs can focus on what matters most to them: identifying the right customer problems and solving them the right way at the right time.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. TL;DR The machine learning-powered ChatGPT can help product managers generate ideas, conduct market and user research , analyze data (app store reviews, user feedback, etc.),

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. Economic — Cheaper, Faster, Better?—?Typically,

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

This approach not only gave the brand man — eventually the brand manager — ownership of a given brand, but it also allowed P&G to better differentiate the various brands in its portfolio. His new product-centric approach called for dedicated teams, focused around a particular brand, each led by a brand man.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Lessons from big money tech failures An opinionated analysis of why some hyped products failed Last year, I did a talk, as part of orienting a team of automotive executives in modern way of iterative working, challenging the prevailing belief that perfect pre-planning backed by big money will always be a clear winner. Microsoft writes off $7.6

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

As new technologies emerge, as competitors offer new products or update existing ones, and as users’ needs evolve, your strategy has to change in order to proactively guide the product delivery and maximise the chances of offering a successful product. You should therefore regularly review your product strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

  For the last 6 months, many of my discussions with product leaders have been about how to apply good product fundamentals to AI – when so much of the broader conversation is shallow or technically suspect or reduces everything to generative apps. And that they are technically feasible.   (GDPR?    PII? 

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280 Group

APRIL 28, 2019

Typically, the product backlog is reviewed by a product owner during the sprint planning meeting. It’s important that product owners describe the tasks in clear, customer-focused language without technical specifications. It’s crucial to make these clear and easy-to-understand for non-technical stakeholders.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Dear Strategy: “What are the strategies that a Tech Product Manager can use to predict competitive movements, innovations, and/or changes in business strategy?”. . With that said, what makes this question a little bit different is that the subject here has specifically to do with the technology space. Let’s take a look at an example….

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? A review of a channel partner’s core competencies should give you an idea about their capabilities in the areas of technology, operations and business model. Core Competencies and Innovation.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

  (And we’ll be speaking the language of money , not technical processes.) But this crude method can help us differentiate ¥24M from  ¥60M, create some daylight between A$ 50k and A$700k, sort 2 lakh tickets from 80 lakh tickets.    Tests with first-time users show an average 8.5 hours to install. 

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280 Group

MARCH 24, 2019

In reviewing the responses, we were pleasantly surprised to see that PMs seemed to score themselves pretty honestly – there was a good distribution of scores ranging on average from 5.02 Roger has worked in the field of Product Management for over 20 years, with experience in startups, growth companies, and various technology sectors.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fluency in eCommerce tech. The overall user experience of an eCommerce website or app consists of many technological components. If something goes wrong, the product manager needs to be able to grasp the underlying technical problem—to know how to get it fixed quickly. 5 Skills for an Outstanding eCommerce Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Background, Criteria, and Decisions The following section describes a health-tech company “ZB Enterprise”, the considerations and culminating decisions. Technological considerations must include the collection and use of data.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. Consequently, it can differentiate your product in the market and give you an edge over competitors. Developers/engineers – help to validate the technical viability of the UX strategy and implement it.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Fairphone has already launched several models and continues to drive its purposeful mission, creating waves in the tech industry and among conscious consumers with over 400,000 phones sold in a hyper-competitive market. A product without a distinct purpose may blend in with the competition and fail to stand out.

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280 Group

MAY 12, 2021

After coming to a conclusion about what a product will be and how it will answer a market need, the Product Manager works closely with the Product Development team to determine what features will not only make the product differentiated and marketable, but are feasible to develop. Celebrate with Us—and Get 15% Off an Online Course!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In a similar vein, 70% of end users say they feel more loyal to companies that provide support in their native language; there’s also massive upside to doing so if you consider another survey which found that 67% of customers are willing to switch brands due to a poor customer experience. What’s causing the disconnect?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge. Continuous Strategizing. What would help your product perform well?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

As your product develops and grows, and as the market and technologies evolve, you must adapt the product strategy. Asking the four questions below will help you with this, as I discuss in greater detail in the article Tips for Effective Product Strategy Reviews. Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

At Intercom, our tech stack is critical to ensuring consistency in our written communication: Templates/snippets : your “what good looks like” templates/snippets should be accessible to all sellers, ideally within their email composer. High-quality emails are a differentiator. E nable with tools. M etrics that matter.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2020

Sherry and Bart focus on keeping those clinic providers up and running with the proper technology and tools they need to meet patient demands. The Technical Task. There were many technical solutions needed for what might appear to be a simple task. This speaks to our philosophy of our tech stack. We build what we have to.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

By leveraging data analytics, e-commerce companies can optimize shipping methods, reduce delivery times, and minimize errors, resulting in improved customer experiences, positive reviews, and increased customer loyalty. Competing and Differentiating in the Market In a crowded e-commerce market, standing out from competitors is crucial.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

They worked with many tech companies and were funded $50k from the first round of investors to build the MVP and find Product-Market fit. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises. Here’s a review of how they did that.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Given how new and versatile the role is, product marketing management is also probably the least standardized role in tech companies, which makes the process of becoming a PMM quite obtuse and vague. The part that makes product marketing management different from other marketing roles is the technical (aka “product”) piece to the equation.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For example, what truly differentiates HubSpot from Klaviyo? Technology companies, in particular, adopted these points of differentiation to gain market share. HubSpot shot to fame due largely to its laser focus on inbound marketing. How about Mailchimp’s All-in-One Marketing Platform and Salesforce? Very little.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

This can be caused by a number of factors, such as incorrect event tracking setup or technical issues. You will need to have a data structure and technical knowledge to fully make use of the tool for setting up different analytics dashboards. Data inaccuracies due to factors such as ad blockers, referral spam, or privacy compliance.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. Wyze’s tagline is to make great technology accessible. Today, we get to find out together as the VP of Product for Wyze joins us.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

SaaS product management is different from product management for on-premise software because it's much easier for customers to switch products due to the subscription-based pricing model. It sits at the intersection of UX, tech, and design. And for a PM, differentiation becomes more critical. Switching has become easier.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

It means mixing together insight into customer wants, needs and expectations with market trends, emerging technology developments, and competitor insight plus the company’s unique product know how. New competitors will have entered, new technologies introduced, and subsequently customer expectations changed.

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Gainsight

APRIL 10, 2023

While tech companies witnessed unprecedented growth over the past couple of years, 2023 is a whole new game. Digital CS is a key differentiator that can help companies win new business and scale efficiently to get a competitive edge.

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