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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. If so, what are they?

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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515: Case studies of organizational growth through successful product launches – with James Whitman

Product Innovation Educators

James describes working with one organization that had five different sales leaders in 18 months due to these pressures. He describes what he calls the “Your PowerPoint is better than mine, but you’re wrong” syndrome – where strong presentation skills can override better strategic choices.

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Three Reasons to Insist on Outcome-Based Planning

The Product Coalition

When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system. We spent months defining how the new catalog system should work. I’ll just say that it was a totally different concept than the existing system’s one. That’s just one of the challenges we had.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

Absence of hallucination – Was there any evidence of the AI inserting details that weren’t actually present in the customer data? An AI system, properly implemented, doesn’t have these same motivationsit simply reports what it finds in the data. Articulation quality – Was it well-expressed and understandable?

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

IDEs) that help you write code with the help of AI Let’s review the most popular tools in each category to see what they can do and what we can build. Claude goes one step beyond ChatGPT’s abilities with their Artifact system. For example, I built this presentation app (with live Q&A and polls!)

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The Rise of AI-Driven UX: Balancing Automation and Human-Centered Design in 2025

UX Planet

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is another game-changer, making it possible for systems to understand and respond to human language. The explainability of AI decisions helps users understand why certain content or features are presented and thus strengthens trust. As mentioned above, transparency is another important issue.