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7 Digital Transformation Traps: #6 Slow Delivery of Digital Products

ProductBoard

Should product leaders care about digital transformation? You might feel like it’s not a priority since you and your team are literally building new technology every day. And when you hear how hard it is to pull off digital transformation — McKinsey estimates that 70% of digital transformation efforts fail — you might really be tempted to put it off indefinitely.

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How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham

Mind the Product

Marc Abraham, Product Director at financial services business Backbase, shows us how to learn from our product mistakes and offers a framework for failing better Read more » The post How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Deep dive: How technical should a B2B product manager be?

Mind the Product

What are the core technical areas that a product manager should potentially know?Let’s deep dive into what technical skills we are talking about and which are important to know about. Read more » The post Deep dive: How technical should a B2B product manager be? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower - Product Management

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. If you’ve ever used a similar application, (or if you’ve ever used the Internet at all) you’ve probably seen this approach before.

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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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No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.

Product Talk

It’s true that discovery takes time. Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. But I’m also a firm believer that discovery doesn’t come at the expense of delivery. Both activities should happen in tandem to achieve the best results. Discovery doesn’t come at the expense of delivery.

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What I Look For in a Senior Designer Portfolio at a Consumer-Facing Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

A portfolio is a window into your design principles and process. How very * artistic * of me. I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position.

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Product Managers Learn How To Sell NFTs

The Accidental Product Manager

The NFT market is just at its beginning Image Credit: pinguino k Frankly, it would be fairly hard to not have heard about NFTs by now. Even if you are not 100% sure just exactly what an NFT is, you have probably heard about someone paying US$69M for an NFT called “The First 5,000 Days” Clearly there must be a market for these things and if there is a market, that means that product managers have to get involved.

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Chris Yeh on Blitzscaling, AI and Value Creation [Product Alignment Series]

Emerge Insights

For the launch of the Product Alignment series, I am excited to welcome renowned entrepreneur and author Chris Yeh, who shares key insights from his decades of experience in the tech industry. Yeh is an expert on startup growth, having co-authored the bestselling book Blitzscaling and worked with pioneering companies like LinkedIn, Facebook and PayPal […] The post Chris Yeh on Blitzscaling, AI and Value Creation [Product Alignment Series] appeared first on EMERGE | UX Agency.

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Introducing the AI for Product Management Course

Mind the Product

Over the course of the year, AI has dominated all the headlines in the tech industry. It is clear that regardless of where these advancements will take us, they will impact the way we work and interact as product people. The rise in demand for AI skills and knowledge has been rife within the product Read more » The post Introducing the AI for Product Management Course 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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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Joyce Schofield, Head of Product & UXD at The Container Store

280 Group

For our next installment of our Women in Product Management Series, I interviewed Joyce Schofield , Head of Product & UXD at The Container Store. I believe the role of Product Manager is not understood and is underleveraged. I strongly believe that Product Management can be leveraged across any company to create that discipline of how to unlock potential and impact.

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Six Food Techology Trends That Can Help Make a Better World

The Product Coalition

As technology advances, the food technology business is capitalizing on new capabilities to revolutionize how it operates. Global population and food production have expanded dramatically over the previous 90 years, while total agricultural acreage has remained unchanged, putting pressure on the food system to produce more food with fewer resources.

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Celebrating the 2023 Amplitude Pioneer Award Finalists

Amplitude

Honoring 24 of the most innovative Amplitude users in the third annual Pioneer Awards who are actively crafting charts, sharing insights, and implementing strategic actions.

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Creating a safe environment to foster team resilience

Mind the Product

In this guest post, product leader, Johanna Feick explains how leaders can create a safe environment for teams to become more resilient and build great products. Read more » The post Creating a safe environment to foster team resilience 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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463: Building a great team to build great products – with Vidya Dinamani

Product Innovation Educators

The key ingredients of a successful product management team Today we are talking about how to build a great product team that in turn will build great products customers love. Joining us is a returning guest, Vidya Dinamani. She’s a product executive, advisor, and coach. She has over 20 years of experience in product management, including multiple executive roles at leading companies such as Intuit.

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AI-driven Data Integration: Paving the Way for Informed Decision-making

The Product Coalition

Introduction In the fast-paced business landscape, making prompt decisions is essential for maintaining competitiveness. Extracting valuable insights from business data and taking timely actions are critical. However, the challenge lies in dealing with the rapidly expanding volume of data due to incorporating both traditional and non-traditional data sources into the data governance ecosystem.

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Product Launch Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for Success

ProductBoard

Getting a product to market successfully takes significant planning and research, resources, and time. With so much invested in transforming an innovative idea into a tangible offering, it’s not enough to build the product—you need consumers to buy it. A product launch strategy is a comprehensive plan designed to jumpstart, accelerate, and scale product adoption once something hits the market.

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Managing up: Leveraging one-on-one check-ins for your professional development

Mind the Product

Practical advice for product managers left feeling like they are lost and alone in career development Read more » The post Managing up: Leveraging one-on-one check-ins for your professional development appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Score Your Spats: How to Stop Arguing and Enhance Your Relationships

Nir Eyal

I got this message from Shane Parrish: “Oh I meant to tell you. I remember something you told me that I now share with everyone. It's made a difference for so many.” The “something” he’s referring to is a simple question that my wife and I have posed to each other throughout our 22-year marriage. We’ve been using this method for so long, I assumed it was common practice.

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The Power of Product Lifecycle Management: Steering Product Roadmaps to Success

The Product Coalition

“All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? You are not alone. Never the hero; it exists in the shadows and is often forgotten until a crisis. Queue the time travel music…. “Why should I care about this lifecycle sh*t? I’ve already got too much to do.

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Omnichannel Analytics Guide for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

Omnichannel analytics enable teams to get a 360 view of user behavior at different touchpoints of the customer journey. How? That’s what this article explores. In particular, it covers: What omnichannel analytics are Why it’s important to track How to implement your omnichannel analytics strategy Omnichannel analytics tools Let’s get right into it!

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An approach to a data-driven product launch

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Jaskaran Sachdeva, Product Manager at Carwow, discusses why I believe a data-driven approach is the most effective for product teams, unlike other, more knowledge and instinct-based approaches. Read more » The post An approach to a data-driven product launch 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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Conflict Is A Product Manager’s Secret Advantage (If You Know How To Use It)

The Product Manager

No matter the team dynamics, conflict is inevitable. But what if, instead of treating it like a poisonous snake, we leaned into its potential for generating truly innovative ideas? Embrace your inner snake charmer with these ideas for navigating conflict with confidence. The post Conflict Is A Product Manager’s Secret Advantage (If You Know How To Use It) appeared first on The Product Manager.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (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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What is Customer Enablement? A Guide For B2B SaaS Products And Services

Userpilot

If you want loyal customers who keep coming back to your product or service, you need customer enablement. Having a great product just isn’t enough anymore. Instead, you also have to help customers get the maximum value from it. That’s exactly what effective customer enablement does – it helps customers get all the tools needed for successful product engagement.

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AI insights from Magic Leap, Lufthansa Group, Shell Oil, Pendo and more

Mind the Product

This week, Mind the Product and Pendo have been attending Web Summit 2023 to connect and learn with some of the greatest minds in product and technology. Read on for some key takeaways from the great sessions that we attended and the people we spoke to on day one. Read more » The post AI insights from Magic Leap, Lufthansa Group, Shell Oil, Pendo and more 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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An Experience Managment Manifesto

Haines-Group

Organizations generally realize that they must manage Customer Experience to create meaningful customer value. Yet too often organizations align the Product Manager role solely with product development efforts, trapping those who occupy the role in a too-narrow, “build-it and they will come” mindset. In the process, critical aspects of how value is created for customers are missed as Product Managers furiously work to develop and launch products.

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If You Want to Become a Great Product Manager, Master These Three Meta-Skills

The Product Coalition

Photo by Jeff Ochoa on Unsplash When Christopher was just 19, life threw him a curve-ball: a brain tumor diagnosis. Refusing conventional treatments, he embarked on a mission to heal naturally, a journey that would cultivate not just health but a vision. This vision materialized as UMZU , a company born out of his unwavering determination to offer natural healing paths to others.

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What is Customer Intent And How to Understand it in SaaS

Userpilot

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. In this article, learn how to identify customer intent and maximize conversions at every stage of the customer journey. You’ll also learn: What customer intent means, along with the three major types. Five key steps to interpreting customer intent. How Userpilot can help you act on user intent to drive adoption , engagement, and account expansion.