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Growth and Entropy
/0 Comments/in Blog, Product Line Strategy, Responsive RoadmappingGrowth-induced entropy has two characteristics that managers should understand. First, it can work against your goals. Because it’s chaotic, it’s not likely to push in the direction you want. And second, when left alone, entropy always grows. You need to spot and tame entropy if you wish to avoid bad outcomes.
Digital Transformations and Product Lines
/0 Comments/in Blog, Digitalization, PLaaS, TransformationCompanies need to focus their digital transformations on improving their product lines’ performance. And they need to do that by focusing on each product line’s velocity. This is a big deal. Pleas take a moment to learn why!
Think Strategy to Innovate Your Product Line
/0 Comments/in Blog, Innovation, Podcasts, Product Line StrategyThe big innovation game is about entire product lines, not creatively crafting a single new product. And a good product line strategy is not just a sum of single-product strategies. There’s much more to it, so much more.
Product Line Strategy and Systems Thinking
/0 Comments/in Blog, PLaaS, Product Line StrategyA systems view shows us how product lines are comprised of many parts. The forces between the parts drive the product line system. Product line management’s job is to create and alter the system parts and forces to push the line forward.
Product Line Strategy-Essence and Innovation 4.0
/0 Comments/in UncategorizedThis blog supports the blog: Innovation 4.0 and Product Line Pivots The core of a product line strategy has three critical parts. When coupled and as a whole, these parts are called the Strategy-Essence. Attribute-Positioning Platform-Leverage Chain-Link (Organizational) Alignment and Synergy Each part adds to a product line strategy’s effectiveness. But great strategies also gain […]
Roadmapping the Roadmap
/1 Comment/in Articles, Blog, RoadmappingWhere is Roadmapping Taking Us? Roadmapping has been on quite a journey. Many managers use the term to describe planning and tracking projects. But they use different schemes to create roadmaps. And the results vary widely. There’s much to learn from roadmapping’s evolution. This is especially true for innovation management and product development in big […]
Glossary of Terms for Product Line Strategy & Roadmaps
Glossary of Terms for Product Line Strategy & Roadmaps Agile Attribute Positioning Balanced Scorecard Business-Growth Portfolio Business Model Business Model Transformation Business Transformation Chain-Link Chain-Link Alignment Chain-Link Strategy Concept Feasibility Concept Generation Critical-to-Success Cultural Inertia Culture Customer-desired Outcome Decision-Making Design Thinking Digitalization Digitization Ecosystem Platform Expected Value Framework Front-end Fulcrum Full Process Architecture Governance Growth […]
Pivot
A major change in a product line strategy or Strategy-Essence (Attribute Positioning + Platform-lever + Chain-link Alignment). A Pivot always impacts how functional chain-links interface to carry out work.
