Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? I have defined the below dimensions as a cohesive framework. I will mention these patterns separately unders each dimensions.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To clearly distinguish, capture, and align the different strategies, you’ll benefit from using a framework. Understanding the Strategy Stack The Strategy Stack is an end-to-end framework that offers three key benefits. Let’s take a closer look at the framework, which is shown in Figure 1.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Creating a new startup is a different challenge. In an established business, you have a business model, customers, ecosystem of partners and distribution channels, employees, and a brand reputation. ” [10:51] Tell us about your framework for digital transformation. Creating a new startup is a different challenge.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play?

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework. I liked this name.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2022

This is where frameworks come into the picture. What are the product frameworks? Frameworks in business provide the sets of steps for creating new products or improving the performance, cost, and quality of existing products. But, while frameworks can be very helpful, they can’t be applied blindly! the North Star Metric.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision." The upper right "magic quadrant" is vendors who have a compelling vision and can deliver on it. Who the product is for (the market).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

8 best augmented reality apps that revolutionize the world’s vision Shopify AR — Create the future of experiential retail Shopify AR is an augmented reality app that online store owners may use to provide an immersive shopping experience for their customers. Augmented Reality Apps: What Lies Ahead of Future Vision?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Lily Smith Lily Smith is the Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro , an independent, VC-backed startup with a close relationship with BBC Studios. She explains, “Having worked mostly in startups, I’ve been the sole product person in most companies. You can submit yours here.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 24, 2024

He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, including Freecharge, which he sold for over $400 million to Snapdeal. • Oppenheimer : [link] • Mark Zuckerberg Says He Tried Out Apple’s Vision Pro and—Surprise!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

At eFounders , we launch 4 new startups each year. As the head of content marketing at eFounders, I’ve come to rely on a loose framework to make these products talk, interact and connect with their users, each with their own, readily recognizable voice. Startups will do what fits. At least not a compelling one.

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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. In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5. It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. It makes sense intuitively.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Product managers feel that they are a part of the feature factory and not being able to concentrate on the vision and strategy of the product. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. The higher management goes through the list of projects that connects with the vision. Have you or your team also faced a similar problem?

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At a high level, the job a product manager is responsible for entails: Aligning the product vision to the company's vision and strategy. an early stage startup, all of the above work is still necessary, but it’s almost always a co-founder, often the actual CEO, that does this. Role and Responsibilities. Marty Cagan.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Admittedly he was joining after a disappointing spell in Italy, but his success with the Dutch champions, Ajax, with whom he won the Champions League four consecutive times, was heralded as the template for his vision at Crystal Palace. Instead you will be asked to implement your vision while making do with existing resources.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. I have had a fair share of experience working at enterprise and startup level companies. So what can you do? But required to get executive approval on priorities.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. From “Unbundling Craiglist” to “Uber for X” – we lay it all out in a single framework. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Try and fill a product vision board. targeted and user centric.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial. Vision & goals Now, chart your course. Define a clear vision for your digital transformation, outlining what success looks like for your organization. Accenture Industry X.0

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! Luckily, this approach works well both in large companies and in startups, but it takes a special person to 'get it'. At this point inexperienced product managers are ready to walk out, but I give them a framework in order to structure the discussion.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

To change Twitter’s product culture, Kayvon also focused on building alignment at the leadership level, telling a compelling vision and strategy story repeatedly, hiring entrepreneurial founders through acquihires to take big bets, and identifying who was “on the wagon” or “off the wagon.”

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The Product Guy

APRIL 25, 2017

In the startup mindset of move fast and break things (thanks Mark Zuckerberg), often times customer interviews and getting to know how users interact with your application fall behind. Determining what goes into your product roadmap to execute on this vision can be boiled down to two things: quantitative and qualitative research.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Vision, Strategy, and Values Just like any product, you must envision how you want your team to look like and be perceived. Just like any startup you will start very lean and scale as you grow.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This can easily happen if your role is changing and you’re becoming less hands-on in a rapidly growing startup or simply if you’re new to a leadership role. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. You can take many approaches to vision and strategy, but the important thing is to make sure that they exist and are understood.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

How NOT to manage a Startup As a product manager, I led 2 teams in my recent startup gig with a lot of uncertainty, distractions and constant changes that impacted the engineers. A startup that is trying to scale, there are good and bad times. There was no buy-in on the company vision across the company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Screenshot from Sean’s presentation at Saastr 2016 Old Age Growth: Great in the short-term, destructive in the long-term In the early stages of a startup, a Growth team might net valuable wins by finding things that are genuinely broken, missing or misunderstood in a flow. Having more ideas does not mean having more success.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. I built a new operating company with two passionate people with a sound vision of the HR industry future, Thibault Halbrecq and Arthur Roose. I first heard of Elium , formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011.

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