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Beyond Customer Visits: Why Catalytic Customers Belong in the Mix
Product managers rarely suffer from a lack of customer contact. Calls, site visits, advisory councils—most teams have some version of...

Paul Peterson
Jul 16, 20252 min read


You Don’t Need More Interviews. You Need Better Ones.
A lot of product teams are doing the right things, at least on paper. They’re shipping regularly, talking to users repeatedly, running...

Paul Peterson
Jul 4, 20252 min read


Beyond the Funnel: Rethinking Brand Health
Most brand health trackers are still built on a model that doesn’t reflect how modern buying happens. Especially in B2B. We’re still...

Paul Peterson
Jun 24, 20253 min read


Measure What Matters? Sure. But Don’t Forget What You Can’t Measure.
“Measure what matters.” It’s one of those phrases that’s become so widely accepted in business that it no longer gets questioned. A...

Paul Peterson
Apr 2, 20252 min read


How to Develop More Effective User Stories
In Agile product development, User Stories are a cornerstone for delivering features that delight users and drive business growth. But...

Paul Peterson
Mar 28, 20253 min read


The Research Bottleneck Is Slowing Your Best Ideas
In fast-moving product organizations, timely decision-making is often the difference between momentum and missed opportunity. Too...

Paul Peterson
Mar 24, 20253 min read


Designing for Real People in a Synthetic Age
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in product development—powering everything from personalization engines to...

Paul Peterson
Mar 23, 20253 min read


Why the best ideas often fail in testing (and how to change that).
Many product managers and their research colleagues have a love-hate relationship with concept testing. When done well, it can flag weak...

Paul Peterson
Mar 15, 20253 min read


The Collapse of Traditional Market Research—and What Comes Next
Market research is in crisis. Response rates are plummeting. Fraud is rampant. AI-generated survey responses are muddying data. Consumers...

Paul Peterson
Mar 4, 20254 min read


Integrating Catalytic Customer Insights into Segmentation and Persona Development
For seasoned insights professionals, segmentation and persona development are foundational tools—part of the baseline repertoire we draw...

Paul Peterson
Mar 3, 20253 min read


Don’t Test for Success. Aim to Fail Instead.
Designing Product Research To Expose Product Flaws In product development, testing is often approached as a process to validate success....

Paul Peterson
Feb 8, 20253 min read


Rolling Up Our Sleeves. Doing the Hard Work of Identifying Your Catalytic Customers
The ability to identify and engage Catalytic Customers can profoundly shape an organization’s approach to innovation and market...

Paul Peterson
Jan 18, 20254 min read


Exploring the Potential for Digital Twins in Innovation
For product managers driving innovation, staying ahead of the curve means (at least in part) embracing cutting-edge tools and the latest...

Paul Peterson
Jan 14, 20253 min read


Approaching Co-Creation with Purpose
Co-creation. It’s a concept that’s been hyped to death before most companies have even figured out how to do it properly. It gets talked...

Paul Peterson
Jan 11, 20254 min read


There’s More to Research in the Digital Age than UX Research
In our digital-first world, user experience (UX) research has become a cornerstone of product development. Companies obsess over testing...

Paul Peterson
Jan 6, 20254 min read


Engage. Listen. Innovate. Building High-Impact Customer Advisory Boards
At CoinJar Insights & Strategy, we’ve seen firsthand how meaningful it can be to engage your most invested customers. One of the best...

Paul Peterson
Jan 5, 20253 min read


Look Deeper: How Catalytic Customers Revolutionize JTBD Insights
When product teams embark on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) investigations, they aim to uncover the underlying motivations driving customer...

Paul Peterson
Dec 18, 20243 min read


The Future of Insights Is (Probably) Hybrid—Are You Ready?
In a world where AI-enabled insights tools are emerging at lightning speed and rapidly moving into the mainstream, the opportunities for...

Paul Peterson
Dec 18, 20243 min read


How Catalytic Customer Insights Transform Buyer Journey Mapping
Buyer journey mapping has rapidly grown in importance and popularity as a cornerstone of modern customer experience strategy. Companies...

Paul Peterson
Dec 10, 20243 min read


Observing Catalytic Customers in their Native Habitat
Harnessing Digital Ethnography to Capture Catalytic Customer Insights We've written a lot about the importance of understanding the...

Paul Peterson
Jul 22, 20242 min read
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