Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Leveraging AI in Product Development: A Practical Approach Mike shares examples of how AI is transforming product development, starting with his own daily interactions with tools like Claude and ChatGPT. His examples demonstrate the versatility of AI in both personal and professional contexts.

Artificial Inteligence

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. A great way to discover an effective product strategy is to capture your initial ideas, using a tool like my Product Vision Board , and then systematically correct and refine them. Figure 3 illustrates how this can be done.

Systems Review

Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc., Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit.

Product Manager

Product Talk

JULY 9, 2025

And today, we’re going to look at the same topic, but from a leadership and stakeholder standpoint. I run these monthly product leadership discussions , and I think they’re all about missing strategic context. It’s vision. For example, we’re interviewing customers. Teresa Torres: Definitely.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Now that I have experienced AI-augmented product management and leadership, I don’t think I could work for a company where AI wasn’t allowed. Here’s an example output: Six months ago, I didn’t think this could work. Our team’s performance, productivity, and NPS have all reached all-time highs.

User Testing

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But how do you hone this crucial skill when faced with conflicting data, unsupportive leadership, or an over-reliance on gut feelings? Maintaining product sense without leadership support If you're not subscribed to Marketcartonist , add it to your list. If you caught the prior newsletter , you'll remember the first five themes.

Product Research

People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Share People-First Leadership How Leaders Should be Thinking About TQ As Scott Belsky describes it, we’re now in a time of “ scaling without growing.” Develop Adaptive Leadership Skills: Be flexible and ready to pivot when needed. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication.

Technical Review

BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

For example, if you sell dog grooming kits, youll want to include other companies that sell similar kits in your region. Sharing your findings with cross-functional teams, especially marketing, sales, and leadership, is key to driving alignment and action. Let competitor insights sharpen your thinking, not narrow your vision.

Data Visualization

BrainMates

MAY 28, 2025

Influential Leadership. Influential Leadership Credibility without authority Drive alignment across complexity Story and trust The power to guide and align others without formal authority. Tech-fluent PMs bridge vision and feasibility by engaging deeply with engineers and navigating technical complexity. Strategic Foresight.

Technical Review

BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

For example, you may have misaligned roadmaps or inconsistent feature prioritisation that doesn’t reflect customer expectations. For product managers: Clear alignment between product vision and execution is essential. For product managers: Closing this gap requires strong cross-functional leadership.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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.

Strategy

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. One example is design equifinality the idea that there can be multiple valid ways to solve a design task. This dynamic creates the first blindspot. In addition to knowledge gaps, there are less obvious blind spots.

Technical Advisors

BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

A leadership team wants sharper focus. Visibility isn’t just for leadership. It’s time to move from box-ticking to behaviour-shifting. Start small. Anchor to strategy. Measure what matters. Because OKRs only work when they’re lived — not just listed. It usually starts with good intentions. They want better alignment across departments.

Systems Review

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In startups, for example, things are so dynamic that it sometimes feels irrelevant to plan too far ahead. And sometimes, if you don’t have a strategic roadmap, the CEO might want one ASAP , for example, before a presentation to the board or an important customer. But it’s not always possible. Most likely, many of them will collide.

Healthcare

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Let’s break down exactly how to execute each step with real examples from leaders I’ve worked with who have used this approach to dramatically increase their compensation. ” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” ” The answers might surprise you. Understand what drives them.

Development Team Review

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

Real-life examples show how a freemium launch becomes a success story with the right structure, mindset, and tools like monday dev by monday.com Because in today’s product world, collaboration isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic advantage. This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference.

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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.

Systems Review

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2025

Come prepared with examples that align with Discord’s values. Technical roles can expect a coding challenge to follow the hiring manager screen.   Top Discord Interview Questions These are examples of interview questions asked at Discord , as reported by candidates. Can you provide an example of how you manage conflict?

Reporting Tools

Gainsight

JULY 17, 2025

During Gainsight’s recent webinar, Reaching Agentic Maturity: The Path to Agentic Scale , Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Brent Krempges, CCO of Gainsight, laid out a compelling vision for the future of AI agents in scaling customer retention and growth. “Our vision is simple,” said Mehta.

Leadership

Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

A few more examples are Fab, Klout, AppSumo, GitHub, Basecamp and Opera, among others. It will pay off, because you will be able to give form to your vision, and you will be able to build out a much stronger technical and product team as you grow. #2 Billion-dollar Skype did it. Billion-dollar Slack did it.

Research Software

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That experience taught me a key lesson about influence: Leadership isn’t a one-person show—it’s a social process. The Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) framework from the Center for Creative Leadership is a game-changer for making an impact - no matter your role. Revisit the DAC example above.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Here is what I found: Unlike other quotes (for example, the one about Ford’s Model-T that could come in any color as long as it’s black, which appears in his co-authored biography), there is no evidence that Ford actually said anything about faster horses. I went to do some research to figure out whether it was true or not.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2025

Doist, for example, has people from 40 different countries across 10 time zones. Hire the Best, Globally Time zones become less of a barrier, allowing you to tap into vast global talent pools and hire the best people regardless of their location. This inherently supports diversity.

Feedback Software

Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It requires a strategic vision, a robust execution plan, and most importantly, alignment with broader business objectives. For example, if you do a lot of in-house development, Scott suggests exploring tools that can help with code development and code review. Automating the onboarding process is one way to make positive change.

Reporting Tools

UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

For example, in cybersecurity, being a cybersec engineer or researcher is a core role with better long-term career prospects, while a UI designer’s job is typically a supportive role that mostly focuses on maintaining the app’s UI. There are also examples of temporary core roles. 22–27 (4) Russell L.

User Testing

UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

For example, Bank of America (US) announced its clients reached 26 billion digital interactions in 2024 (a 12% year-over-year increase), including 676 million interactions with its AI virtual assistant “Erica.” For example, Europe’s stricter regulatory environment (e.g., In the UK, NatWest’s AI assistant, “Cora,” handled 11.2

Data Visualization

Business Acumen Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

Yet, considering my early tastes in business leadership, it was obvious that, while the school of hard knocks hadn’t necessarily been kind to me, at least it had been talkative, and I had somehow managed to take a pretty good set of notes. It’s a way to establish trust with your teammates and inspires others to work toward a shared vision.

Vision

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 30, 2025

For example, businesses worry about being left behind by AI. Vision: What does the world look like when you achieve your mission? A big vision attracts more people who want to see it happen. The 4 Essential Questions: Before telling a story to sell something, ask yourself these. What’s at Stake? What could someone win or lose?

Differentiation

Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

Discussing product leadership and challenges, Orly shares her unconventional path into product, the lessons she learned turning around a failed product, and how she builds high-performing teams in global tech companies. Product Leadership Through Challenges Nicole: That was incredibly boldand it really paid off. Orly: Energy.

Leadership

Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

There are high potential leadership development programs But if we look a little bit more deeply into the organization, let’s assume all those great high potential people become the future C suite people, who’s gonna move into those next higher level jobs. And the way I see it sometimes is through these quick examples.

Data Visualization

Gainsight

MAY 29, 2025

A standout example of scale done rightwith precision and creativity. She built the vision, rolled out the tools, and aligned the team directly to revenue. Her leadership helped reframe CS as a strategic growth driver. The result? Congratulations, Lytho! The Dream Team Award Goes to Amwell!

Customer Communications

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. If the vision resonates with you, then this will help you do a great job, especially when the going gets tough. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

Vision

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

Vision

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The following tips will help you with this: Empathise with the individuals and make an effort to understand their perspectives, needs, and interest, for example, by practicing active listening. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The following tips will help you with this: Empathise with the individuals and make an effort to understand their perspectives, needs, and interest, for example, by practicing active listening. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.

Leadership

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

Vision