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To figure out what your North Star is, you should ask “Why are customers using my product? What is the core value they seek?”. Focus on the product and market as they are now.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
The top-down, change-resistant planning we see in the Fire Phone story is all too common. It’s the norm in large organizations. Most often it’s expressed in a document called a feature road map. This is a compelling document. It gives a clear sense of where we are, where we’re headed, and what features we’ll build to get from here to there.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
The consequences of indecisive strategy
Instead of treating product strategy as a monolith that you have to make more decisive all at once, consider it a cohesive machine with different dials to turn. In essence, you have to make choices across a few core questions that the strategy needs to answer:
Why do you want to act now, and what long-term ambitions drive your actions?
For whom do you want to solve problems, and what are these problems? Who else tries to solve that problem?
How do you plan to reach your audience? What makes them choose you over an alternative?
The answer to each of these questions represents a choice. And the specificity of each choice influences how decisive, and therefore practical, your product strategy will be.
Great Strategy Gives You Permission to Say "No"
Ravi Mehta
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