There are many challenges for the collaboration of Product and UX on the strategic level. As a product and design trainer and consultant, Sol Mesz works with both teams to make this collaboration more successful. She shared with us many tips and tools that can help any leader get the most out of both “sides […]
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Many of us work on consumer products, or B2B SaaS, or other products where the business model and the value proposition is strong and clear. But there are products and industries that need to connect a variety of different players, creating not only complex problems but also complex structures where the needs of different groups
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It can be hard to create a strategy for innovation. But if we are talking about B2B enterprise innovation, especially when hardware products are involved (like climate and energy tech), it truly is challenging. Furthermore, if you are looking for advice, few have actually “been there and done that”. Daniel Elizalde is one of those.
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We all know different products and contexts require different strategic thinking. B2B SaaS and subscriptions is an important product category, and John Pearce has been working on it for a long time. Listen below to our conversation and read my takeaways. Takeaways We went deep into John’s repeatable process, that he calls “The power of
One challenging topic about product strategy as organizations grow, is “how many product strategies” should we have, based on how many products we have on our portfolio (or “sections of a large product, or business units, or any other organization slice we may have). It is also related to the question “who should we involve”
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Startups and Enterprises operate very differently. Product management is done quite differently. What about product strategy? What are the differences (and similarities)? What do we need to pay attention to? What is important to consider if we move from one to the other?In this episode, I spoke with Jonathan Rodriguez, Product Lead at Flieber, a
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What is like to set a strategy when your company is growing in headcount by 2x (or more!) per year? How do you identify the areas where the new joiners will be working? How do you balance new opportunity spaces versus focusing on the existing ones? How do you onboard new members on the strategy
Strategy when Hyper Scaling Read More »
Product teams constantly do discovery and delivery activities to validate and understand what they need to build, and then ship it successfully to their customers. These activities are mostly opportunity-driven (or initiative-driven, or idea-driven, meaning that you execute them for a given “thing” that you want to explore and build). For this reason, we manage
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This article is based on Episode #8 of 100 Product Strategies (Spotify, Apple Podcast). Over the last decade(s), many companies have started the different types of transformations, most of them going in the same direction: how to become more agile and make digital-product development a first-class discipline they had to master and focus on to
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