UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Its a holistic system that weaves together strategy, design, functionality and authenticity. Each of these touchpoints becomes a stage on which the brands identity must shine consistently.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Regularly exercise your product judgment by making informed decisions and reflecting on outcomes. You can replace “product sense” with “product vision” When an organization implements a go-to-market and organizational change like the one described in the question, the strategy stack needs an update.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It bridges the gap between observation and action, transforming scattered (and messy) information into clear, prioritised insights that can drive product strategy. Lets explore using atomic notes gathered into the wall-to-wall exercise of affinity diagrams with exploratory research scenario as the focus.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

We often discuss strategy, vision, and long-term goals, feeling like were making progress. He highlights how strategy can remain vague and flexible, leaving room for ambiguity, but design demands clarity. A vision statement can inspire, but it doesnt require anyone toact. Quarterly goals can shift as priorities change.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Your job isn’t to get your ideas implemented but to brilliantly operationalize the CEO’s vision. ” exercise. You’re not the protagonist in your company’s story—the CEO is. Find where you can add unique value within that framework. Help them earn their seat through valuable contributions.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership). Here’s where you are a person who formulates strategy and directly impacts outcomes based on that strategy.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Direction – A shared vision people believe in Alignment – Coordination so efforts don’t clash Commitment – Buy-in from the whole team When clients come to me with a similar scenario to the one I described above, I use the following questions and examples to help apply DAC. Try this interactive exercise.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

My advice is to approach the interview as a game with clear rules rather than a casual conversation, and spend the first minute making a handful of assumptions at the start of the interview that narrow the scope to a manageable exercise without prematurely limiting the solution space. Focusing on the U.S.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I think it’s also something you can exercise. Learning to write for that actually has been another pretty fascinating exercise in constrained creativity to some extent. One of the exercises we’ve adopted is co-authoring stories. Is it a protection thing? Evan: Probably, to some extent. You can get better at it.

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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. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work. Learn More.

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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. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Strategy Canvas. The Strategy Canvas was developed by Kim and Mauborgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Theory. It was originally intended as a business strategy tool to discover new markets. The Strategy Canvas above ranks the first iPhone against its rivals, including the Nokia N95 and the BlackBerry Curve.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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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.”

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. The one I use most is this: a strategy is what we choose to do. In other words, the strategy should define how important each goal is, relative to others. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Create B2B onboarding strategy for a premium organic products for <Startup V> catering to niche user segment focused on wellness, health & lifestyle” Why was it needed to define the problem for onboarding strategy?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The client service team supports the work flow that software has been built to support, and different organizations have strategies in managing these interactions. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled. Products are not simply about being built.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

To improve your vision and strategy skills: Immerse yourself deeply in your domain for an extended period. Once you have a solid vision, share it with your team. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

She oversees product strategy, definition, and launch activities for Kymeta’s mobile satellite communications product line, which is making mobile broadband connectivity around the world ubiquitous. 18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making? The toughest thing to do is ask the right question. [18:41]

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Resetting Your Customer Retention Priorities: A Team Exercise. Treat this as a collaborative product management team exercise, not an exercise for each product manager. Here’s the most important part of this exercise. Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product. Seize the opportunity.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I look at four dimensions for robust Product Organizations: Product Organizational Design Product Strategy Product Operations Product Culture Inside each of these are a few capabilities that are then broken down further into sub-capabilities that help me pinpoint where the issues are. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. To build a successful product strategy, you must be willing to make tough choices that have a lasting impact and represent big moves. Back to the dilemma?

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. That was a good exercise and that was learning number one: Breaking it down into its smallest pieces and aligning on something and learning together as a team, I think unblocked a lot. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2024

— Richard Rumelt is a legend in the world of strategy. He’s the author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, both of which are often recommended by guests on this podcast. Strategies are fundamentally about what you’ll do in response to a challenge.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 8, 2023

We decided to pursue the OCI award as a learning exercise and a moment of inspiration for the company. Everything for us starts with strategy—both innovation strategy and corporate and total enterprise strategy. We highlighted how we translate that strategy into the projects we pursue. Then we do annual planning.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address. Product Roadmap.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). Opening Game.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ Start with a clear vision of what you want your mobile customer experience to be, and make sure you gather feedback and measure how you’re doing. How can you track the value of mobile strategies?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    If these strategies don’t hang together, we each hang separately.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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