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Actionable advice on user research, product management and customer discovery.


 
 
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How To Run An Opportunity Gap Survey (User Research Guide)

Opportunity Gap Surveys identify which discovery research insights have the highest potential for impact by measuring how important each need is to your users and comparing that against how satisfied those same users are with their current solutions. The name comes from this comparison โ€” finding the gap between importance and satisfaction allows you to spot opportunities that are very important to your customers but poorly served today.

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Van Westendorp for Pricing Research (Survey Guide)

A Van Westendorp is a survey method used to measure a productโ€™s optimal price. Known specifically as the Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter, or sometimes just VM PSM for short, this survey method shows you how price changes impact your customersโ€™ willingness to pay for your product.

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How To Create A Full-Profile Conjoint Analysis Survey

In Full-Profile Conjoint Analysis, a list of fixed profiles is created in advance rather than allowing attribute options to be randomly selected, and the results show which overall profiles were most and least likely to be selected.

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How To Conduct A Double Materiality Assessment (Full Guide)

Materiality assessments are not difficult to administer yourself. The various free guides youโ€™ll find on the internet will try to convince you that materiality assessments are complex and time-consuming processes. In reality, these guides purposely exclude any information about how to actually measure materiality so that youโ€™ll be forced to pay them >$100,000/year to conduct these assessments for you.

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Competing Values Framework: Methods, Tools, Templates

The Competing Values Framework (CVF) is one of the most popular academic theories for understanding how organizations act. It uses a simple 2x2 matrix to quantitatively map an organizationโ€™s culture in a simple yet empirically validated way that allows leaders to plan strategies to change their culture over time.

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What is a Contingency Table in Survey Analysis?

Contingency tables compare two or more types of data to see how often they overlap in a matrix table. Learn how they works, what the best tools are, when to use it for your research, and what its advantages are over other survey analysis methods.

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Multivoting: 6 Best Tools & Techniques for Group Decisions

Multivoting is a way for a group of people to prioritize a list of options by allowing each person to vote for multiple options in order of their personal preference. Itโ€™s a popular way to make group decision-making a more participatory and consensus-driven activity.

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How to Measure Company Culture using the OCAI Assessment

The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is a popular research method for quantitatively mapping a companyโ€™s culture. It offers a simple yet empirically-validated way to analyze both an organizationโ€™s present and preferred culture, helping leadership teams create data-driven strategies for transforming how their company works.

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Pairwise Comparison: The EASIEST Way To Rank Any List [Video]

Pairwise Comparison (also known as Paired Voting or Pairwise Ranking) is a simple yet powerful way of ranking a list of options by breaking them into a series of head-to-head votes. This video explains everything you need to know about Pairwise Comparison, including its origin, use cases, setup tips, and real-world examples.

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The 12 Best Tools For Creating Product/Market Fit Surveys (PMF Survey)

When picking a tool for your PMF survey, you need to consider: price and limitations, filtering and segmentation, branching and survey functionality, and more. To save you the time, I tested and reviewed the 12 most popular PMF Survey tools โ€” hereโ€™s everything you need to know.

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