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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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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.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

Download this Special Report by MIT Sloan Management Review to learn about: The concept of radicalness and how its intertwined with innovations Innovative governance ideas that have the potential to influence organizational changes Simple decisions that can set teams on a path toward either incremental or breakthrough innovations

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

Product Innovation Educators

You can find consumer reviews everywhere—Amazon, Walmart, etc. Think about different types of customers. Next take stock of what you know and where there are gaps in your knowledge. Then see what you can learn about your customers online. I’m always shocked at all the different places where B2B customers are talking online.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system. Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details.