Tag: product strategy

• Stakeholder Wants vs. User Needs: Why Following Orders Creates Bad Products

  

  In our work, there’s always a “stakeholder,” and an end-user “customer.” Don’t make the mistake of confusing them, or you’ll kill your ability to deliver value to the people who need it most.

  business strategy, client-centricity, design thinking, product management, product strategy, strategy

• From Online Aggregator to Product Innovator: How Amazon’s PowerPoint Ban Revolutionized Product Development

  

  Ditching PowerPoint can help you access more profound levels of thinking to generate, iterate, and evaluate product ideas collaboratively through a writing, reading, feedback, and rewriting culture to build products customers love.

  business strategy, design thinking, leadership, product management, product strategy, strategy

• Three Ways to Build Better Solutions Without Asking Users What They Want

  

  At their core, both collaborative software development and online content creation are about understanding user needs.

  business strategy, design thinking, product management, product strategy, strategy

• Here’s Why Strategy, Not Agile, is the Missing Key to Business Agility

  

  Still think “being Agile” can solve all your problems? The world’s dominant mobile phone manufacturer also boasted the largest successful Scrum implementation. But the reigning “business agility” champion somehow couldn’t pivot fast enough to fend off disaster. Here’s what happened and what not to do.

  Business Agility, business strategy, product management, product strategy, scrum, strategy

• Is It Time to Pivot Your Strategy and OKRs? Here Are 3 Key Early Warning Signs

  

  Is our strategy still taking us where we want to go? Is it solving the problems that most need to be solved? How can we know it’s time to adapt and re-set?

  business strategy, design thinking, OKRs, playing to win, product management, product strategy, strategy