Product Management Articles

How to Support Cross-Collaboration with Engineering Teams
Maziar Adl

How to Support Cross-Collaboration with Engineering Teams

It takes many people to design and develop an amazing product. Many companies with large complex hardware, software, or cyber physical products can have numerous teams working simultaneously and in tandem with each other to ensure the best model makes it to the market. Successful products happen when great minds and teams work together. While it’s easy to imagine that this collaboration happens organically, the reality is that teamwork needs to be fostered. 

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Maziar Adl

Capturing Your Customer's Needs and Turning them into Actionable Solutions for Prioritization

Your company has created a product your customers love, and your sales team and distributors can hardly keep up with the demand. While your team is basking in the launch's success, you also know that it's only a matter of time before the competition launches something new. Unless you also introduce a new feature, you may lose some of your customers. Your team needs to focus on idea generation and prioritization to stay competitive. 

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Kevin Jankay

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

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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Your Guide to Sharpening Scoring Skills & Reducing Bias
Maziar Adl

Your Guide to Sharpening Scoring Skills & Reducing Bias

Product development teams are always eager to improve their products. This passion for the product and quest to make improvements leads to a flood of ideas pouring in on a regular basis. Naturally, everyone who submits an idea believes their suggestion is great and should be implemented. While their idea may be good, that doesn’t guarantee it’s the right idea to focus on next. Product development decisions need support from data and research. 

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Your Comprehensive Product Management Glossary: Key Terms and their Definitions
Maziar Adl

Product Management Glossary: Key Terms and Their Definitions

The world of product management encounters an array of technical terms, phrases, and acronyms that can confuse even seasoned professionals in the product management realm. To aid both aspiring product managers and those who want to master their field, we’ve created this comprehensive glossary of fifty essential product management terms and their definitions to help you collaborate better with your colleagues and boost your knowledge. 

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How Generative AI Can Benefit Product Management Teams
Maziar Adl

How Generative AI Can Benefit Product Management Teams

One of the most novel product development trends is the integration of AI technologies in the development process; product managers are among the top ten user groups of artificial intelligence systems in organizations today, with a recent study by IBM highlighting that 21% of product managers use this technology on a daily basis. The benefits of AI and machine learning are that product managers and development teams can use them to fuel growth and gain a competitive advantage.

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The Ford GT Story + 50th Anniversary Win at Le Mans (How it Happened)
Maziar Adl

The Ford GT Story + 50th Anniversary Win at Le Mans - Innovate to Success

In 2019, the movie Ford vs. Ferarri (starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale, and Catriona Balfe) relaunched the tale of the iconic win by Ford over Ferrari on the Le Man racetrack in 1966 back into the minds of racing fans. The equally impressive feat is how Ford came back to defeat Ferrari yet again in 2016, fifty years after the original win. How did they do it, and why does it matter? Here's a rundown of the significance of the Le Mans race to the automotive industry and the tenacity of the Ford development teams to pull off stunning wins against the odds. 

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Products as Platforms and When to Start One
Maziar Adl

Products as Platforms and When to Start One

What comes first, the product or the platform? Asking the question of what should come first, the product or the platform, is similar to asking whether the egg came before the chicken. There is no cut-and-dry answer as to which order is better; companies have tried both to varying results. While the answer to the chicken and egg question is more philosophical, the question about products and platforms is best answered based on a company's structure, goals, and resources. 

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3 Successful Companies Leading Their Industries Using Market Segmentation Strategy
Maziar Adl

3 Successful Companies Leading Their Industries Using Market Segmentation Strategy

We've previously discussed here on the blog types of market segmentation and how to break into new markets by targeting certain segments. Now, it's time to look closer at examples of companies that successfully captured various market segments with their product lines, either by innovation or acquisition. The following three companies have harnessed the power of market segmentation to dominate against their competition. 

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Why Manufacturers Should Prioritize Cyber Security When Choosing a SaaS Provider
Maziar Adl

Why Manufacturers Should Prioritize Cyber Security When Choosing a SaaS Provider

Manufacturing companies benefit from technological advances across their organizations. Technology simplifies tasks and task management from the factory floor to the design and development stages to company-wide correspondence. The prevalence of technology makes security one of their top concerns, and for good reason. Large manufacturing companies are a target for their intellectual property, sensitive customer and employee data, and money. Cyber threats are a real concern, from phishing scams that can target any employee, ransomware or data breaches resulting from vulnerable networks to supply chain disruptions. 

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