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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview)

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. Its a product strategy problem.

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The Customer Service Gap Model

BrainMates

It’s about ensuring that customer experiences align with promises made during product development and marketing. This gap can arise when decisions are based on assumptions rather than solid customer data, leading to misaligned priorities in product development.

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Evolving as a Product Leader: From Execution to Capability

BrainMates

Despite human talent being the largest contributor to cost of revenue, organisations invest far more in tech than in developing their people. Because the future of product leadership isn’t just about systems, it’s about the people who power them. We spend more on hiring great people than we do on developing them.

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How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report

DevelopmentCorporate

Younger or smaller companies particularly those without formal research teams often fall in the lowest budget category, investing only enough to conduct limited testing or outsource one-off studies. On the other hand, companies with dedicated research teams or integrated research operations are more likely to invest six figures or more.

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Problems in the Solution

Tyner Blain

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” Merging into a single customer base, looking for cost efficiencies from a combined team, increasing profits because of the reduction in price-competition in the market. “I don’t get to set the direction.