Strategy and product teams are both key to achieving product success. But what exactly do we mean by strategy, and to what extent should product teams shape strategic decisions? These are the questions I discuss in this episode.

Learn More

• Attend my training courses: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/
• Read or listen to my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244
• Read or listen to my book How to Lead in Product Management: https://amzn.eu/d/69ypa3z

Download the Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/product-vision-board/

Related Episodes

• The Strategy Stack: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/the-strategy-stack/
• Setting up Product Teams for Success: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/setting-up-product-teams-for-success/
• Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/stakeholder-buy-in-product-strategy-roadmap/
• Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-portfolio-strategy/
• Building High-Performing Product Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/building-high-performing-product-teams/

What do incremental enhancements of a legacy app and the development of a new AI product have in common? Both have to create value and innovate to some extent. In this episode, I discuss the Innovation Ambition Matrix, a tool that helps you understand your product’s innovation type and, based on it, make the right strategic decisions and optimise your product portfolio.

Learn More

• Attend my Product Strategy and Roadmap training course: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/
• Read my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244
• Read Nagji and Tuff’s HBR article on the Innovation Ambition Matrix, “Managing Your Innovation Portfolio,” https://hbr.org/2012/05/managing-your-innovation-portfolio.

AI has significantly impacted software-based products and has started to change how product management is practised. But how is it affecting product strategy? Can AI-powered tools lead to better strategies? Can they even make strategic product decisions on their own? In this episode, I discuss the benefits and limitations of using AI to create a product strategy, as well as the foundations you should put in place to take full advantage of AI tools.

Content referred to in the podcast:

• Roman's Product Strategy Model: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/my-product-strategy-model/
• Product Strategy Discovery: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-strategy-discovery/
• Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/product-vision-board/
• GO Product Roadmap: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/the-go-product-roadmap/

Learn More:

• Attend my Product Strategy and Roadmap training course: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/
• Read my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

Product teams are key in enabling product-led growth and offering successful products. In this episode, I explain what product teams really need to do a great job and how you can best support the teams you work with.

Content mentioned in the podcast:

• Design Questionnaire for Product Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/downloads/tools/Team-Design-Questionnaire.pdf
• Building High-Performing Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/building-high-performing-product-teams/
• Decoding Product Leadership:
• https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/decoding-product-leadership/ Hackman’s book Collaborative Intelligence.

To learn more, attend my Product Leadership workshop and read my book How to Lead in Product Management.

When it comes to product strategy, people often focus on templates, tools, and frameworks. While these matter, they are only a small part of what’s needed to develop a successful strategy. In this episode, I take a holistic approach and discuss product strategy from a system perspective. I consider people, processes, and principles in addition to tools, I share the strategy system I have developed and explain how you can take advantage of it.

Download these tools:

• The Product Strategy System
• The official Product Vision Board
• The Product Strategy Stack

Listen to these episodes:

• Product Strategy Discovery
• Continuous Strategizing
• The Strategy Stack