Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Enter the Cycle. I call these outcomes product goals.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. But every now and then, for example, when I share the insights with my customers (many of them wanted to use our time together to simply hear how it was), I remember what a great privilege it was to attend this workshop, and I feel truly grateful.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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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. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

This metamorphosis was not just a change in title; it was a profound realization of the impact that research and strategy can have on the very foundation of the products we create. Embracing Design Thinking principles, we conducted workshops to map out the entire user journey and identify pain points.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. The narrative for your product vision and strategic portfolio roadmap should be customer-centric, not product-centric. It’s simple!

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Product Culture

MAY 5, 2021

In my first VP Product role, my company had a charismatic founder with a strong vision of where he wanted the organization to go. But the vision was high level and long term, like the top of a pyramid. Strategy is the intermediate layer that connects the company's actions with its vision. It is the layer that says "no!"

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As well as product managers, stakeholders, marketing, sales, and dev representatives should attend a persona workshop.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

You see, the reason I started the Dear Strategy podcast was mostly to educate. Now, I’m sure I didn’t go about the process in exactly the most effective way, but, even so, that particular strategy has resulted in absolutely zero leads! But – remember – I’m a strategy guy! I love teaching and sharing knowledge with others.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. We deliver content via a series of virtual workshops.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. Product vision depicts the future the product aims to create and is used to inspire teams and customers. How Innovatemap can help.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Join me for a 3-hour live (web meeting) demo workshop on November 12th. Creating a Product Strategy: Is It Worth the Effort? Product Demo Workshop November 12, 2020. You’ll deliver demos that bring the buyer’s vision of success to life so you can push the sales process to a close. 3-hour live workshop via web meeting.

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Product Culture

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my early product jobs was at a startup with money and the CEO's exciting vision. We also had Shiny Object Syndrome, with a million ideas and tactics for how to bring the vision into practice. Do you agree? Events Online in your time zone. Product Roadmaps Masterclass , the Sequel.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Wanted to jot down some thoughts on my perspectives on this, and the topic of product vision in general - both to solidify my own thinking and in case it can be helpful to anyone reading this. The vision talks about the future?—?where

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Adapt the Product Strategy to Respond to New Technologies Finally, you should systematically assess the impact of a new technology on the product strategy and determine if it has to be changed. I recommend that you assess the strategic impact of a technology in the form of regular, collaborative product strategy reviews.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

With the market knowledge as the backdrop, product management creates a vision for how your organization is going to make its target customers successful in ways they haven’t even thought of yet while also driving revenue growth, market share and wallet share. Proving you can execute the strategy seals the deal. Related Articles.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. Getting to Shared Goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. For the first time ever, Bain Public will be hosting their own, exclusive product workshop event!

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Creating and maintaining a brand strategy can turn into a never-ending struggle, but it can also provide a great deal of fun. In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. But first, let’s define brand strategy! But first, let’s define brand strategy! Brand strategy defined.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Our Product Management workshops are designed and taught by professionals who have grappled with the same day-to-day challenges that attendees currently face. A companion, one-day Product Strategy & Roadmapping workshop addresses what is perhaps today’s top business concern: How can we innovate for competitive advantage?

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Understanding the nuanced differences between Product Managers and Project Managers is essential in unraveling the fabric of business operations and execution strategies. Their role revolves around defining the product vision, aligning it with market needs , and ensuring its success.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Key Responsibilities of a Product Manager Visionary Leadership : They define the product vision , aligning it with company objectives and strategizing the product roadmap. Go-to-Market Strategy : They design comprehensive launch plans, working closely with marketing teams for successful product introductions.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

You see, the reason I started the Dear Strategy podcast was mostly to educate. Now, I’m sure I didn’t go about the process in exactly the most effective way, but, even so, that particular strategy has resulted in absolutely zero leads! But – remember – I’m a strategy guy! I love teaching and sharing knowledge with others.

Framework 52

Framework Workshop Blog Education 52

Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this course we’ll introduce 4D roadmaps, a tool for developing highly strategic roadmaps that balance your long-term vision with customer feedback and short-term business priorities. Here is the full slate: Product Programs : Product Management Foundations , Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this rebranding, not only the brand elements, but also the company’s vision, cultural values, and services were all redesigned to create a truly new btrax. Since 2015, we began providing workshop-style services, mostly to Japanese enterprises, based on design thinking. Defining a new vision. The answer was.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to uncover strategic customer priorities and align your portfolio priorities accordingly, contact Proficientz about a hands-on workshop for managing, marketing and selling a portfolio of solutions to grow your wallet share. Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product. Related Articles.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “What are the key elements to have in a successful strategy for a non-core product? Now, for all of these scenarios, the key elements to include in your strategy are the exact same things that I continually refer to in this blog.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. I want to make the case, informed by the writing of Marty Cagan , particularly his book Inspired and by learning from Teresa Torres , through her workshops and team coaching , that output or feature-based roadmapping is a thing of the past in product management.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Improved alignment : Stakeholders and development teams are now better aligned through the use of regular collaborative workshops like sprint reviews. Product discovery and product strategy poorly practiced : The most beautiful user stories are useless if it’s not clear who the users are and why they would want to use the product.

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