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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

The automotive industry’s entrenched methods focused on optimizing these ICE systems, often at the expense of innovation in alternative energy sources. Under Musk’s leadership, Tesla adopted a first-principles approach to rethinking fundamental aspects of the electric car. So imagine what first principles can do for your roadmap.

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TEI 279: How product managers and leaders turn visionary thinking into breakthrough growth – with Mark Johnson

Product Innovation Educators

It’s especially important that the leadership team carve out 10% or 20% of their time to explore the vision and discover at an enterprise level to plan for the future. [16:15] An automotive company had decided that they would be fast followers in the electric vehicle market. 16:15] How do we define the time horizon?

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

He looked at problems in science, automotive, cryptocurrency, and gaming consoles. It’s only done with structure or process, not with leadership or culture. He decided to find the areas in the world where we can solve problems better than anybody else. He got really involved in scientific communities.

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Tools of the Trade: How HiveMQ Automates Customer Interview Recruiting with Orbital

Product Talk

HiveMQ powers use cases in automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, transportation, and more. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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TEI 084: Product portfolio management – with Carrie Nauyalis - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Automotive or pharma, which have really long cycle times, versus a CPG company that has extremely short cycle times, will have portfolios constructed differently. There are top-down portfolios with goals set by senior leadership. There are top-down portfolios with goals set by senior leadership.

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What is Self-Awareness and why Should you Care?

Mind the Product

Ford’s glory days as one of America’s top automotive companies were a distant past, and the company was staring at $17 billion losses. In just over five years, Ford was reporting $20 billion in profits and was the only automotive company in the US to avoid a government bail-out. Identify Your Blind Spots Through Continual Feedback.

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Lessons from a Product Launch: Rivian

ProductPlan

That’s the situation Zack Suhadolnik, a Senior Product Designer, found himself in at Rivian —an American electric vehicle automaker and automotive technology company. “It If you look at a lot of other automotive industry companies, their design is all very similar, very templatized. It was pretty chaotic; I’d say,” he mused.