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KP's avatar

IME people often don’t realize that product strategies are actually way more important and influential than company strategies. Simply because it’s the products that have an impact on people’s lives, not the company. And this is not only true for users and customers, and society — it’s also true for the people who contribute to the creation and introduction of products which is basically everyone in the company. It’s the products we work on and use that connect us, not the company. It’s the products that are “strong centers” (Christopher Alexander) of our thinking and action, not the company.

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ysamjo's avatar

Having a VC-like approach to your product porftolio is no company strategy - it's a certain method to create products but no standin for an overarching strategy.

I would argue, if Google had such a astrategy, they could have succeeded with Google+. The strategy would have justified to leverage existing products instead of letting Google+ fight for itself without much support.

https://medium.com/hyperlinked/give-me-one-year-product-ownership-of-google-contacts-and-i-make-google-social-622e84a01cdf

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