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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

Whether you’re just starting with OKRs or looking to improve your existing implementation, this comprehensive guide will help you create an effective OKR framework that drives real results. The beauty of this system lies in its flexibility and focus on outcomes rather than activities.

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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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Tackling complex design debt: a three-step framework

Intercom, Inc.

Here’s a simple framework for managing it. In our early days, like many other companies, we prioritized the speed of shipping over maintaining the consistency and interconnectedness of our system. A three step framework for tackling the debt. Let’s say our system consists of these five objects. Here’s how we did it: 1.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.