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Where and How to Play

The Where and How to Play Strategy Questions

Articles, Blog, Product Line Pivot, Product Line Strategy, Strategy, Transformation

The key to business performance is to know where and how you want to play the game of business. Product line strategies and roadmaps are central to the answer. Learn More

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May 5, 2022/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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Indivisible Strategy

Indivisible Product Strategy

Articles, Blog, Product Line Pivot, Product Line Strategy, Strategy, Transformation

Big company leadership teams must figure out how they wish to focus on “where-to-play” and “how-to-play.” Strategy Indivisibility, much like a prime number, is the natural level at which further dividing or aggregating a focus and strategy becomes forced and ineffective. Learn why a product line is indivisible and how indivisible strategy unison determines business performance.

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April 11, 2022/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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Platform-Lever

Platform-Levers and Product Line Strategy

Blog, Platform-lever, Product Line Pivot

Major strategy moves and pivots by deploying new Platform-levers are happening in every industry. Company after company in automobiles, medical equipment, consumer goods, services, and software are all moving forward with new Platform-levers. Should you

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April 6, 2021/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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Responsive Roadmapping Paul O'Connore

Responsive Product Line Roadmapping

Blog, Product Line Pivot, Product Line Strategy, Responsive Roadmapping

Responsive Roadmapping: Guiding Change and Product Line Pivots
Responding to Market, Technology, and Economic Disruptions. Large businesses must work efficiently and carry out change effectively. The problem for management teams is that the practices they’ve installed…

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March 31, 2021/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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Product Line Mess

Your Product Line Mess Looms Large

Blog, Covid, Product Line Pivot

Can you fix it by next summer? The COVID economy hasn’t messed up all product lines. But I’m stunned by how many well-known companies have serious problems. And most customers and shareholders have yet to see the messes. But discussions inside the companies are getting rough. Count your blessings if your product line continues performing […]

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August 28, 2020/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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post-COVID growth

A New Growth Cycle? You Bet!

Blog, Covid, Product Line Pivot

But it’s not just ‘more of before.’ This growth cycle won’t be a pick up from where we were before our COVID experience. We’re all dealing with major changes and disruptions. Nonetheless, growth is imminent. Get ready! Consumer demand is pent up, and the money supply is pumped up. And that’s for every major country […]

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August 18, 2020/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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Innovation 4.0

Innovation 4.0 and Smart Product Line Pivots

Blog, Product Line Pivot, Product Line Strategy

Germans declare it Industrie 4.0. The Yanks tag it as The Connected Enterprise. And the Brits give it the 4th Industrial Revolution moniker. Any way you slice it, it’s the future. The product development community, especially those in large organizations, don’t seem as caught up in a name. I’ve seen Innovation 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 […]

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December 12, 2019/0 Comments/by Paul O'Connor
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