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Roger L Martin CM (born 4 August 1956) is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2013 and an author of several business books.[1] Martin has expanded several important business concepts in use today, including integrative thinking. He has been recognized by several business publications as one of the field's most important thinkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Martin_(professor) (more)

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, book by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz https://leananalyticsbook.com/ (more)

Noah Kagan taught Jason Cohen to Focus on 1 (AARRR) Metric and ignore everything else. He chose to focus on signups. (more)

model/structure of multiple metrics for your organization (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Why business intelligence falls flat. It wasn't that people didn't care about the story the data was telling. They did care, and they were worried that the numbers were flat. The problem was they had no idea what they could do about it. The metrics in the dashboard were divorced from the actual work happening on the ground. (more)

a business metric that's a leading indicator, an input, which you believe you can improve, and believe that will lead to a positive outcome. (actionable) (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

product management tool with emphasis on north-star metric and other metrics https://doubleloop.app/ aka DoubleLoop.app. See CEO Daniel Schmidt. (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Customer focus isn't enough. To thrive long-term, companies must be customer-focused and business-oriented at the same time. It might seem that these two ways of operating are in tension with each other. They are not. (more)

Southwest Airlines Co., or simply Southwest, is a major airline in the United States that formerly[citation needed] operated on a low-cost carrier model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines

Steve Blank model for Customer Development. (more)

The Mom Test: how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you - Rob Fitzpatrick (more)

customer discovery interviewing, see esp Problem Interview and Solution Interview

Daniel Schmidt: Metrics-driven product development is hard. (Data-Informed Product Management) The way that the FAANG companies use metrics to build products is vital to their success. They invest an army of people and homegrown tools to pull it off. My last article, Balancing short-term and long-term product bets, describes Google's process. While the very top companies are great at using metrics, after talking to the hundreds of PMs who signed up for DoubleLoop.com, I’ve learned that almost everyone else is struggling. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Why Impact/Effort Prioritization Doesn’t Work. Effort can be stated in man/weeks or simply has high/medium/low. Impact can be graded on a scale, for example 1–5, 5 being the highest, or again as high/medium/low. Once you have the numbers in place, it’s a matter of picking the features that give you the best bang for the buck (more)

Colin Matthews: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers (vibe prototyping). tools like Cursor, Replit Agent, v0, Bolt, and other new cutting-edge AI tools that allow you to build working apps in minutes (more)

Lynn Parramore: Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.Price hikes, deteriorating conditions, and poor service — along with a certain slickness of marketing — could be signs that ownership of a business you count on has transferred to one or more firms in a rapidly-expanding Wall Street industry. (more)

The Appeal: Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated. Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items. (more)

Itamar Gilad: The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need. In practice companies struggle with settling for just one top KPI, and with good reason. The terms are not very clear either — North Star Metric, One Metric, top business KPI — are these all the same? Are they different? (more)