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379: Product strategy is changing. Are you ready? – with Ron Adner, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Strategy is how you allocate your resources and choose which opportunities to forgo while pursuing the ones you’ve chosen. Mainstream strategy includes Porter’s five forces, low cost differentiation, and Clay Christensen’s work on being more sensitive to substitute threats. Take the automotive industry.

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Product Positioning for Product Managers

Department of Product

Pricing, user experience, features, performance, branding, customer service and partnerships influence how target customers perceive the value of one product relative to alternatives in established markets. Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen coexist in the same automotive market as global brands with unique products as a portfolio within VW Group.