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

Product Innovation Educators

A framework for product launch success Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I interview James Whitman, author of LAUNCH Code and founder of Growth Guidepost. James shares insights from his research studying companies that consistently launch successful products.

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Overcoming Challenges in Stakeholder Management: Strategies for Navigating High-Stakes Decisions

The Product Guy

From handling feature requests that lack customer validation to managing unrealistic expectations, we’ll discuss practical strategies to maintain alignment and avoid common pitfalls. Through these insights, you’ll be better equipped to handle the pressures of managing up and leading your product toward success.

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Deep dive: Mastering stakeholder management for product leaders

Mind the Product

As a product manager or leader, your ability to manage stakeholder relationships is as critical as your strategy and execution skills. In fact, those relationships have a real chance to make or break a project whether its a new product launch, product strategy planning process, or any other project your product team is working on.

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

Product Innovation Educators

Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. Edwards Deming Application Questions Looking at your last three product launches, how could you identify where systemic issues caused compromises to the original innovative vision? ” – W.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022).

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

Rather than imposing a strict interpretation, they allowed different roles to define innovation in ways that made sense for their work. The key takeaway from Mike’s discussion is that while AI can be a useful tool for early-stage testing and iteration, it should be used to supplement, not replace, traditional customer research methods.

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A Product Manager’s Guide to Building Trust with Stakeholders (and why it matters)

The Product Manager Coach Blog

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

Takeaways: Uncover and navigate through common pitfalls that are plaguing product teams today. Explore proven solutions, laying the groundwork for triumphant product launches. Gain inspiration from real-world success examples from top digital companies, offering invaluable insights into their winning strategies.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works. Innovation advice will not work if your company's culture does not encourage it.