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Many companies like to describe themselves as winning through operational effectiveness or customer intimacy. These sound like good ideas, but if they don’t translate into a genuinely lower cost structure or higher prices from customers, they aren’t really strategies worth having.

Playing to Win

A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin

Worse, if these ideas are baked into the OKRs (as many teams do, sometimes under a redundant “Initiatives” section), the team will be motivated to focus on output—delivering on the plan—rather than on the outcomes.

Evidence-Guided

Itamar Gilad

Upon evaluating the main challenges faced by the product management team, I identified a few issues: they had no easy access to data; the strategy and roadmap planning cadences were taking a huge amount of time; and there were no consistent templates across the organization. The product managers were eager to apply their training, but they felt stuck. Product leaders felt stuck, too. They couldn’t reconcile the roadmaps at scale.

Product Operations

Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

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