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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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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

Basecamp exemplifies this approach by openly encouraging debate and dissent to refine their vision. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. Product leaders who drive impact dont simply follow or reject frameworksthey build adaptive systems that help them navigate evolving challenges.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

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. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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Three Reasons to Insist on Outcome-Based Planning

The Product Coalition

When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system. We spent months defining how the new catalog system should work. I’ll just say that it was a totally different concept than the existing system’s one. That’s just one of the challenges we had.

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So, You Have A Vision, Now What?

The Product Coalition

Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash So many aspects in our lives are based on other people’s visions coming true. Going through history, visions which became reality changed our lives dramatically, and as technology progresses, this becomes more and more true. From my experience, there are four steps for turning a vision into reality.

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