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The Simple Way To Marry Company Strategy and Product Strategy

Product Management University

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The first order of business is to make a clear distinction between your company’s financial goals and strategic goals. They’re often conflated. Financial goals are just that. While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals.

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Product Demos: How to Sell Solutions Versus Products

Product Management University

Here’s a simple three-step approach for your product demos that will help you sell solutions versus products. It’ll make differentiation easier and improve your sales win rates. In many cases, the product silos that exist within product management become transparent to buyers during the sales cycle, creating the perception you’ve got a bunch of fragmented products instead of integrated solutions.

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Subway product managers have to come up with a comeback plan Image Credit: Mike Mozart I’m pretty sure that even if you didn’t know it, there are more Subway sandwich restaurants out there than there are McDonald’s restaurants. With the chain being that large, you would expect that they must be doing quite well. In the past that has been the story.

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Product Dogfooding in Software Development: A Quick Guide (+Best Practices)

Userpilot

Dogfooding means eating your own dog food. Wait! What? What does it have to do with product management or product design? That’s what you’ll find out from this article. Let’s dive in! TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. It involves teams using their own product internally to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Photo by Nonki Azariah on Unsplash Last week I had a pleasant surprise.

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Product Design: The Ultimate Guide for Building Great Products

Userpilot

Product design is much more than an aesthetic and intuitive UI. Our ultimate guide explores: What exactly product design involves How to design successful products , and Tools that can help you design them. Let’s get right into it! TL;DR The aim of the product design process is to create products that solve genuine customer problems, are functional, and offer a positive user experience.

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Product Strategy and Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s make this more concrete by looking at a popular product discovery tool, Teresa Torres’ Opportunity Solution Tree (OTS). [2] Before I proceed, let me point out that I am neither

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Feature Scoring in Product Development: When to Do It and Why

Gocious Blog

Choosing between two great options is a struggle for anyone. When faced with the decision, there can be a feeling of loss for the choices not selected. When it comes to ideas and group discussion, it can even feel personal. The more options thrown into the mix, the more challenging the decisions become.

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SUNDAY REWIND: 8 rules for flow in product

Mind the Product

Earlier this year, Ebenezer Diagi, Product Manager and Designer at ZIMVEST wrote a great guest post for Mind the Product on engaging your users through flow. In this Sunday's rewind, we look back to this engaging piece. Read on for a quick recap. Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: 8 rules for flow in product appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Navigating the Intersection of SAFe and Product Management: Finding Harmony in Complexity

280 Group

In the dynamic world of agile development, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Product Management stand as key players, each with its own set of principles and practices. While both are committed to delivering value to customers and responding to market needs, the intersection of these frameworks can be both a source of collaboration and a breeding ground for challenges.

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How to reduce churn and grow revenue opportunities with better customer onboarding

Alchemer Mobile

Improve customer adoption and onboarding with continuous feedback By Jasper Lipton, Alchemer Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Vanessa Bagnato, Alchemer Director of Product Marketing Successfully onboarding a new customer has long term impacts on your business, and can improve adoption, reduce churn, and increase revenue. With the ability to automate manual steps and customize the Alchemer Platform to fit your onboarding needs and business, you can collect the information you need to help cu

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem.

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Image generation AI: A paradigm shift in creativity and governance

Mind the Product

AI image generation provides creators with new and exciting capabilities but also raises some profound ethical questions. We look for a way forward that will harness its immense possibilities while also ensuring safety, transparency and responsible governance. Read more » The post Image generation AI: A paradigm shift in creativity and governance appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Product Experimentation Guide for Product Managers

Userpilot

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. If product managers can consistently apply the scientific method, analyze the effect of multiple variables changing, and gather reliable data about the future direction of the product, they’re in a strong position to improve customer outcomes. Ready to learn more about experimentation?

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466: Use the 4 leadership motions to be more effective – with Janice Fraser

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The motions reflect a need for leadership change as organizations struggle for higher performance while supporting employees.

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GPT Needs UXR

dscout People Nerds

User research can help us understand and utilize GenAI both effectively and ethically. But GenAI can also provide opportunities for UXR at a pivotal time.

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Strategic alignment in product – Martin Eriksson (Product Partner, EQT, Mind the Product)

Mind the Product

Join us for an insightful conversation with Martin Eriksson, EQT Product Partner and Co-founder of Mind the Product. Martin unveils The Decision Stack, a model to empower product teams in making more effective decisions. We dissect the five steps of this model, demonstrating the power of a defined vision, cohesive strategy, and an understanding of objectives, opportunities, and principles.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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How to Use Data-Driven Insights to Drive SaaS Growth

Userpilot

Data is the backbone of modern marketing. Thus, properly harnessing data-driven insights is key to achieving product growth and business success. This article explores what data-driven insights are and why they are important. It will also guide you through uncovering and harnessing these insights in your SaaS business. TL;DR Data-driven insights are the conclusions reached from analyzing raw data and identifying the patterns and trends in them.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue.  In my experience, this is mostly ineffective if it’s done only once a year — especially if focused on how much money we need to make, rather than how we’re going to make it.

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How to Safeguard Employee Personal Information: Offshore Team Case

TurnKey Labs

Ever wondered about the true cost of leaving your offshore team’s data unprotected? Picture this: cybercrime is estimated to cost the world a staggering $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Cybercrime is no longer a distant threat; it’s an impending financial storm.

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Driving digital innovation in fashion: Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira

Mind the Product

Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira Is the Co-Founder of the Digital fashion platform The Fabricant. We caught up with her at Web Summit 2023 to hear about her experiences in launching a disruptor product within the fashion industry. Read more » The post Driving digital innovation in fashion: Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira appeared first on Mind the Product.

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

Unlock the power of a well-designed website with our eBook, 'Comprehensive Checklist: A Guide to Website Redesign.' Crafted by Brucira and ruttl founders, it's your ally in reshaping your digital presence. Welcome to a transformative journey!

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Customer Experience Management vs Customer Relationship Management

Userpilot

Customer experience management vs customer relationship management? Both are important for affecting your customers, but what exactly are they, and how do they differ? Read on to find out their key differences and how they work together to help grow your product. TL;DR CEM focuses on the entire user journey with a brand, addressing needs and expectations at all touchpoints.

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OEM Analytics: What Is it & How Does it Work?  

Reveal

Reveal Embedded Analytics In the dynamic world of data analytics, the demand for comprehensive and integrated solutions has reached unprecedented levels. In response to this pressing need, OEM analytics has emerged as a pivotal force in reshaping how businesses harness and interpret their data. This article aims to serve as a guide to understanding the benefits and competitive advantages of OEM analytics, offering valuable insights into selecting the right OEM analytics solution.

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All the Key Benefits of Staff Augmentation – and Why Top Software Companies Use It

TurnKey Labs

Time is the one thing we can’t control. And this is no more true than in software development, where there always seems to be a looming launch deadline or milestone around the corner at all times. To speed up development, companies look to automate as much as they can though this only goes so far.

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Stop “protecting your team”

Mind the Product

Amanda White, senior product manager at Tanzu Labs, looks at the unintended consequences of protecting product teams from interruptions and suggests that more importance should be placed in developing balanced teams with high levels of autonomy. Read more » The post Stop “protecting your team” appeared first on Mind the Product.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Web Designer vs UX Designer: Main Differences

Userpilot

In the dynamic world of digital design, the roles of the web designer vs UX designer stand out as pivotal contributors to the online landscape. Despite the similarities in title, these are very different roles. This article explores the roles and responsibilities of the web designer and the UX designer. It further explores their similarities and differences, helping you to decide which one you need for any given task.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. (And sometimes, increased friction so much that people could not easily do their jobs.) Removing those support staff was one indication the companies fell into the Economies of Scale trap.

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EOR in Latin America: Do You Need the Help of Employer of Record?

TurnKey Labs

In the heartbeat of Latin America’s technological evolution, the software industry stands as a pivotal force, steering the region toward innovation and growth. A testament to its significance, the software industry in Latin America generated a staggering revenue of 18.6 billion USD in 2022.