How to Make Sure Your Product Still Meets Customer Needs And Expectations

“Customers are loyal to the Job to be Done, not to the solutions they use.” – Mike Boysen, Jobs to be Done Canvas Creator Markets are accelerating. As a result, businesses have to become more responsive to the market. If a business catches a wave too late, it stands to ..Continue Reading

How to Resegment Your Customer Base to Find Breakout Growth Opportunities

“A lot of products are one-size-fits-all. And it doesn’t work super well for anybody. And nothing is done about it.” – Indi Young, Author of Practical Empathy and Mental Models Chances are that you’ve been building your product to address the needs of your best fit customers, or personas prioritized ..Continue Reading

How to Learn From Your Product’s Ultimate End Users in B2B2C

“Every time we add another step to some system, the probability that the system works is reduced.” – Peter Bevelin, Author of Seeking Wisdom Early in his career, Simon Seroussi worked as a product manager for TravelClick, makers of a hotel reservation and booking platform. As a Business-to-Business-to-Consumer (B2B2C) organization, ..Continue Reading

Diagnosing a Product Organization: How Customer-Centric is Your Company?

“Every company in the world will tell you they are customer-driven. They’ll believe in the principle. They’ll even have framed posters on the wall about it. […] But I’ve learned that none of that means anything unless you actually make the structural decisions to ensure it.” – David Cancel Here’s ..Continue Reading

How to Define a Product Business’ North Star Metric (And How to Best Utilize It)

“Each strategy we had at Netflix—from our personalization strategy to our theory that a simpler experience would improve retention—had a very specific metric that helped us to evaluate if the strategy was valid or not. If the strategy moved the metric, we knew we were on the right path. If ..Continue Reading

How to Test and Improve the Design of New Product Features

“A new feature has to retain users for that specific feature, have a scalable way to drive its own adoption, and has to improve retention, engagement, and/or monetization for the core product.” – Casey Winters Once you identify an opportunity to add value to your product, you don’t want to ..Continue Reading