The Where and How to Play Strategy Questions
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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Indivisible Product Strategy
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, Product Line Pivot, Product Line Strategy, Strategy, Transformation/by Paul O'ConnorBig 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.
Rethinking Product Strategy
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, Product Line Strategy/by Paul O'ConnorDon’t limit your potential by applying Single-Product Strategy thinking to Product Lines. The big deal is that product lines have two unique advantages over a single-product. They gain from leverage, and they gain from cross-market synergy. Strategies must…
Agile Buy-in Problems
/0 Comments/in Articles, Blog, PLaaS, Product Line Strategy, Roadmapping, Transformation, Whitepapers/by Paul O'ConnorAgilists blame backlashes against the methodology on top management’s unwillingness or inability to change. It’s leadership’s fault, not Agile’s. They didn’t embrace Lean-Agile Leadership. Really?
Growth and Entropy
/0 Comments/in Blog, Product Line Strategy, Responsive Roadmapping/by Paul O'ConnorGrowth-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, Transformation/by Paul O'ConnorCompanies 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 Strategy/by Paul O'ConnorThe 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 Strategy/by Paul O'ConnorA 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.
