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Stellar Product Strategies for Early-stage Startups

The Product Coalition

Lean toward your vision 1. The first iPhone (2007) differentiated this way: 3. Lean toward your vision There are hundreds of tactics possible. tactics lead to your vision So which one is best? The ones that follow your vision. Without a clear vision, you won’t know where to start. Wasting precious resources.

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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Systems Thinking can greatly strengthen UX strategy, especially in the following aspects: Holistic Vision of the User Ecosystem Mapping and analyzing the broader user ecosystem, including digital and physical channels, devices, interactions with other systems and services. This vision guides the strategic objectives.

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TEI 309: Product management strategy – with Allan Anderson, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager. Don’t just copy a vision statement from someone else; make it real for your company and the people involved in your company. [19:33] 19:33] What is innovation strategy?

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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Make Your Product Stand Out with the Strategy Canvas

Roman Pichler

The dark one represents the value curve of the smartphone industry in 2007; the light one the first iPhone. I capture these pieces of information using my Product Vision Board. By assessing the degree to which the iPhone and the competitor products fulfil the twelve factors, two lines are created.

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

Mobile-phone based payment system M-Pesa first launched in Kenya in 2007. While everyone in your team needs to be united by the same vision, it’s far more important that your team works in close collaboration and everyone understands the impact of their work on the rest of the team. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari.

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Connected Commerce and Embedded Finance

The Product Coalition

It may sound strange to say, but don’t get carried away by the vision of connected commerce. Can services be provisioned in a way that can be highly customized for end users? This includes custom flows, multicurrency and branding. Define and validate the business case. Embedded Finance Much of connected commerce are financial transactions.

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