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  • How to Use AI to Create a Winning Product Strategy

    How to Use AI to Create a Winning Product Strategy
    2025/11/03
    AI has significantly impacted product management. But so far, the focus has mainly been on using it to create new features and discover and deliver products faster. While helpful, this approach overlooks the area that most determines product success: strategy. In this episode, I’ll explain how to move beyond execution and use AI as a strategic partner—helping you create a product strategy that achieves lasting success.
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    14 分
  • 5 Tips to Succeed with Stakeholder Management

    5 Tips to Succeed with Stakeholder Management
    2025/10/06
    Stakeholder management is as important as it is challenging: Without the support of the stakeholders, it is virtually impossible to achieve product success. Aligning them, however, can be tricky. In the worst case, you experience endless meetings, conflicting opinions, and bad compromises. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this episode, I share five practical measures to help you succeed with stakeholder management.
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    10 分
  • How to Combine Product Strategy, OKRs, and KPIs

    How to Combine Product Strategy, OKRs, and KPIs
    2025/09/08
    Product strategy, OKRs, and KPIs are popular product management frameworks. But how can they be applied successfully together? What comes first, strategy, OKRs, or KPIs? Can OKRs describe or replace strategy? And what should you do when a senior stakeholder tells you what OKRs and KPIs to use? Listen to this episode to hear my answers.
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    7 分
  • 5 Product Vision Mistakes You Should Avoid

    5 Product Vision Mistakes You Should Avoid
    2025/07/07
    The product vision can be a powerful vehicle for creating a shared purpose, inspiring people, and galvanising them. Unfortunately, I have seen many visions that did not fulfil their potential, as they suffered from a number of mistakes. In this episode, I discuss five common issues and explain how you can avoid and correct them.
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    7 分
  • Strategy and Product Teams

    Strategy and Product Teams
    2025/06/09

    Strategy and product teams are both key to achieving product success. But what exactly do we mean by strategy, and to what extent should product teams shape strategic decisions? These are the questions I discuss in this episode.

    Learn More

    • Attend my training courses: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/
    • Read or listen to my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244
    • Read or listen to my book How to Lead in Product Management: https://amzn.eu/d/69ypa3z

    Download the Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/product-vision-board/

    Related Episodes

    • The Strategy Stack: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/the-strategy-stack/
    • Setting up Product Teams for Success: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/setting-up-product-teams-for-success/
    • Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/stakeholder-buy-in-product-strategy-roadmap/
    • Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-portfolio-strategy/
    • Building High-Performing Product Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/building-high-performing-product-teams/
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    9 分
  • The Innovation Ambition Matrix

    The Innovation Ambition Matrix
    2025/05/12

    What do incremental enhancements of a legacy app and the development of a new AI product have in common? Both have to create value and innovate to some extent. In this episode, I discuss the Innovation Ambition Matrix, a tool that helps you understand your product’s innovation type and, based on it, make the right strategic decisions and optimise your product portfolio.

    Learn More

    • Attend my Product Strategy and Roadmap training course: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/
    • Read my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244
    • Read Nagji and Tuff’s HBR article on the Innovation Ambition Matrix, “Managing Your Innovation Portfolio,” https://hbr.org/2012/05/managing-your-innovation-portfolio.
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    9 分
  • AI and Product Strategy

    AI and Product Strategy
    2025/04/07

    AI has significantly impacted software-based products and has started to change how product management is practised. But how is it affecting product strategy? Can AI-powered tools lead to better strategies? Can they even make strategic product decisions on their own? In this episode, I discuss the benefits and limitations of using AI to create a product strategy, as well as the foundations you should put in place to take full advantage of AI tools.

    Content referred to in the podcast:

    • Roman's Product Strategy Model: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/my-product-strategy-model/
    • Product Strategy Discovery: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-strategy-discovery/
    • Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/product-vision-board/
    • GO Product Roadmap: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/the-go-product-roadmap/

    Learn More:

    • Attend my Product Strategy and Roadmap training course: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/
    • Read my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244
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    13 分
  • Setting up Product Teams for Success

    Setting up Product Teams for Success
    2025/03/03

    Product teams are key in enabling product-led growth and offering successful products. In this episode, I explain what product teams really need to do a great job and how you can best support the teams you work with.

    Content mentioned in the podcast:

    • Design Questionnaire for Product Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/downloads/tools/Team-Design-Questionnaire.pdf
    • Building High-Performing Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/building-high-performing-product-teams/
    • Decoding Product Leadership:
    • https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/decoding-product-leadership/ Hackman’s book Collaborative Intelligence.

    To learn more, attend my Product Leadership workshop and read my book How to Lead in Product Management.
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    9 分