Join 📚 Felicity's Weekly Book Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Felicity's read, .

Visualizations tend to open up strategy, making it not only more understandable but also more inclusive across the organization. Several techniques help illustrate strategy graphically. These include strategy maps, strategy canvases, the strategy blueprint, and the business model canvas and value proposition canvas. These tools complement and extend alignment diagrams.

Mapping Experiences

James Kalbach

Shipping Time Real-time delivery and next-day shipping are increasingly common, and buyers are becoming more demanding. Shipping time is key, and it’s tightly linked to how effectively the retailer handles logistics. E-commerce companies can most likely achieve significant operational efficiencies just by optimizing their fulfillment and shipping processes. These efficiencies turn into a competitive advantage, because they let you sell to consumers who are more interested in faster, better-quality service than the cheapest price.

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz

Product roadmaps can take many forms, and aren’t necessarily a single artifact or document. In fact, it’s really not about creating artifacts at all — it’s about creating a shared understanding of where you’re going and why.

Product Roadmaps Relaunched

C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors

...catch up on these, and many more highlights