Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Those are the differentiators.” — Dan Pink, Atlassian interview By painting a picture of a world that had transitioned to sustainable energy, Musk was giving his employees a unified sense of meaning, reinforcing what sits at the centre of providing purpose?—?a a clear and compelling vision. Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0 when done well.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

I’m not a big fan of the word “product strategy”. Building a Frankenstein product. Here are 4 steps any startups can follow to create a great product strategy: 1. Lean toward your vision 1. He thought the best strategy was to play something. A great product strategy is the same.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. What is the company’s vision? Note that there is no perfect business strategy—just like there is no perfect product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. Is this critical to the company and product strategy?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story. You’ve just built some cool new A.I.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision development takes a few iterations.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That brings us to the topic of a single market strategy versus strategies for each product and which approach has more strategic benefit to your organization. None of your products on their own deliver the broad impact your customers are looking for. A market strategy does just that. Here’s the $1 million question.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 21, 2023

BTW, the Portfolio CEO is the Chief Product Officer or the manager with the most senior role in product management. Portfolio Vision Portfolio CEO, the first and most important thing you’re going to do, just like the CEO of a company, is establish a “north star” vision for the portfolio. Feeling good? Let’s keep going.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 14, 2022

For an organization to follow through and turn that idea into a viable product, the team needs both a product vision and a product strategy. Both of these play a critical role in motivating those responsible for bringing the product from concept to market. Product vision.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. And if so, what are the consequences for your product?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to deep product skills, you require generic, transferable product management capabilities, such as, effectively capturing the product’s value proposition , segmenting the market , validating product strategy assumptions , selecting the right KPIs , prioritising the product backlog , and analysing user feedback and data.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This will not only benefit your product. It will also have a positive impact on team morale and productivity. Adapt the Product Strategy to Respond to New Technologies Finally, you should systematically assess the impact of a new technology on the product strategy and determine if it has to be changed.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Beyond a healthier balance sheet, why do your target customers care about cash flow relative to their big picture strategy? If we go back to post 3 of 10 , you’ll see the ripple effect of a customer-facing portfolio vision in full swing when it’s time to craft your portfolio (and product) positioning!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. However, involving the design team from the outset will help you avoid common pitfalls and streamline product development. They bring unique skills to support, challenge, and refine your vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Bonus Questions: What do you enjoy doing as Chief Product Officer at Obo? My primary job is setting the product strategy and vision. I love figuring out where to start on a product, who the right customers are, and what the key differentiator is.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Of course, product teams need to develop and ship new features. Whether it’s to stay competitive, differentiated, or solve for what they believe are their customers’ needs, some companies get locked into a cycle of feature FOMO – fear of missing out – that ends up stalling product innovation.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. I know in a lot of feature factories, product teams don’t engage with customers that often. What’s the vision? I think teams often struggle to connect the dots between vision, strategy, and execution or opportunity space , right? The vision is flight level one for me.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

First, for a product to truly be considered successful, among other things it has to be: Valuable – solve a real problem people are willing to pay for. Marketable – be attractive enough to differentiate itself from competitors. You need to differentiate. Faster horses will get you only so far.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We analyzed dozens of job descriptions from leading companies (Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, eBay, Expedia, Instagram, Intercom, LinkedIn, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, among others) and we were able to differentiate hundreds of distinct skills and responsibilities. Agile : Product owner role, software development, team cadence, delivery.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Start with company vision and direction.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Our Solution: This describes our new product or service and the way the end user makes use of it to perform his job. Pain Relievers: Here we summarize how our solution addresses the user’s pain points, e.g., our differentiators 3. Marketing Success Through Differentiation?—?of Sources: (1) Levitt, Theodore. of Anything.

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