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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. If so, what are they?

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

He co-authored Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement and authored The OKRs Field Book. The beauty of this system lies in its flexibility and focus on outcomes rather than activities. I asked Ben what reasons he has seen for this. Before this, most organizations that used OKRs were doing a pretty good job.

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518: The non-obvious way to gain organization support for your ideas – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

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Book Review: The Team that Managed Itself

The Product Bistro

But the story isn’t the whole book. The book is chocked full of great ideas that are intuitive, visual, and compelling. The book is chocked full of great ideas that are intuitive, visual, and compelling. I highly recommend this book. You just want to put them into action. Not to scare you, but to open your eyes.

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Decoding Amazon’s Working Backwards Process [Book Review]

NextBigWhat

This is where the book Working Backwards ( officially launching Feb 18th) makes its mark! The book, Working Backwards walks you through the launch of some of the iconic Amazon products including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa, and AWS (and of course, Fire Phone too). What’s the biggest takeaway from the book?

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. All our teams are writing the book on autonomous racing. Mid-summer test.