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TEI 309: Product management strategy – with Allan Anderson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. Don’t just copy a vision statement from someone else; make it real for your company and the people involved in your company. [19:33] 19:33] What is innovation strategy?

Strategy 314
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Communicate Your Vision with an Internal Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. It aligns business decisions with strategic vision. Effective roadmaps translate leadership’s vision into a guided conversation with stakeholders. Start by asking who in your business needs to understand the product’s vision. So why build a roadmap at all?

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Stellar Product Strategies for Early-stage Startups

The Product Coalition

Lean toward your vision 1. The first iPhone (2007) differentiated this way: 3. Lean toward your vision There are hundreds of tactics possible. tactics lead to your vision So which one is best? The ones that follow your vision. Without a clear vision, you won’t know where to start. Wasting precious resources.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Systems Thinking can greatly strengthen UX strategy, especially in the following aspects: Holistic Vision of the User Ecosystem Mapping and analyzing the broader user ecosystem, including digital and physical channels, devices, interactions with other systems and services. This vision guides the strategic objectives.

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

Mobile-phone based payment system M-Pesa first launched in Kenya in 2007. While everyone in your team needs to be united by the same vision, it’s far more important that your team works in close collaboration and everyone understands the impact of their work on the rest of the team. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari.

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Make Your Product Stand Out with the Strategy Canvas

Roman Pichler

The dark one represents the value curve of the smartphone industry in 2007; the light one the first iPhone. I capture these pieces of information using my Product Vision Board. By assessing the degree to which the iPhone and the competitor products fulfil the twelve factors, two lines are created.

Strategy 144
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Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)

Lenny Rachitsky

Tailor your narrative to resonate with different stakeholders—investors, customers, employees—by emphasizing how they can achieve their aspirations through your vision. Disagreeableness: Founders who challenge the status quo often appear disagreeable because they defy conventional norms.

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