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

Product Innovation Educators

Understanding OKRs: From Intel to Modern Product Teams The evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) began at Intel during the 1970s and 1980s, where Andy Grove transformed the traditional Management by Objectives (MBO) system into something more dynamic and outcome-focused. Instead, enable cross-functional ownership when appropriate.

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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

Our more senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. The most senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. However, sometimes this doesn’t work for engineering.

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11 Onboarding Gamification Examples to Engage & Retain Users

Userpilot

To help you get started, we’ve compiled 11 powerful gamification examples to improve your user onboarding process. We’ll walk through some onboarding gamification examples you can replicate and, where relevant, some examples to improve your employee onboarding process. Below’s an example from Airtable.

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477: Three-step VOC system – with Andrea Ruttenberg, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

You can find consumer reviews everywhere—Amazon, Walmart, etc. For example, a couple of years ago we did a study with snowplow drivers and found many forums online where folks who drive snow plows for municipalities or for their local neighbors were talking about some of their problems and challenges.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Few examples: Growth PM/Growth Hacker – This role focuses on increasing the top of funnel and ensuring lower drops off during the conversion. This could also be due to stringent processes or lack of the same.