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Product strategy stack
A practical framework / model addressing this question: How should vision, product strategy, pillar strategies, roadmaps, and near-term goals fit together?
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Product strategy stack vs Product-to-distribution strategy
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Product-to-distribution strategy
A practical framework / model addressing this question: How can a company treat customer access and distribution as strategic assets for future products?
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Use the product strategy stack when people working on product strategy and roadmaps are using different mental models for five artifact levels, purpose, and owner, and that difference is changing choices or coordination.
Use the product to distribution strategy when people working on product leadership are using different mental models for core product, customer base, and channels, and that difference is changing choices or coordination.
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Product strategy stack
- Apply the product strategy stack to one current situation before explaining it abstractly. If the model does not change a question, reveal a relationship, or narrow a choice, the analysis is not yet useful.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the product strategy stack is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Set the evidence boundary. Agree the scope, owner, participants, period, and evidence source before completing five artifact levels and purpose.
Watch for
- Do not use the product strategy stack as a label for a conclusion already reached. It is a lens for testing relationships around five artifact levels, not evidence that one interpretation is automatically correct.
Product-to-distribution strategy
- Apply the product to distribution strategy to one current situation before explaining it abstractly. If the model does not change a question, reveal a relationship, or narrow a choice, the analysis is not yet useful.
- Name the live case. Write the specific situation to which the product to distribution strategy is being applied and the decision, output, or behavior that may change.
- Set the evidence boundary. Agree the scope, owner, participants, period, and evidence source before completing core product and customer base.
Watch for
- Do not use the product to distribution strategy as a label for a conclusion already reached. It is a lens for testing relationships around core product, not evidence that one interpretation is automatically correct.
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