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Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking for Product Managers

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate

Integrating strategic thinking into your product development cycle

Long-term thinking is not only the province of product leadership. The contingencies are many, and product managers who can anticipate them are in a key position to contribute to the success of the product throughout its lifecycle. Enhancing their strategic thinking skills will help them bridge the gap between their organization’s vision and product execution.

Join expert Bandan Jot Singh to learn how to maximize your effectiveness over the long haul by integrating strategic thinking into your product development cycle. Through real-world examples and simple frameworks, you’ll explore the important elements of product strategy: thinking in bets, hypothesis building, understanding market needs and creating opportunities, product positioning, measuring success, prioritization, and iterative execution. You’ll discover how to set goals, how to align your teams within a framework for success, how to pivot if and when it becomes necessary, and more.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

By the end of this live online course, you’ll understand:

  • How to develop hypothesis-based strategic thinking
  • How to assess success for various hypotheses and value propositions
  • How to iterate on your strategy
  • How to bridge the strategy and execution gap

And you’ll be able to:

  • Utilize frameworks to come up with strategy narratives
  • Iterate your approaches and become flexible in your strategic planning

This live event is for you because...

  • You aspire to be a product manager.
  • You’re a product manager who wants to improve your strategic thinking skills.

Prerequisites

  • Up to seven years of experience in product management

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Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Coming up with product strategies (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: The significance of product strategy and various methods for developing them; recognizing the value of hypothesis-driven thinking
  • Hands-on exercise: Complete a strategy template for your organization or a hypothetical instance
  • Break

Iterating on product strategy (45 minutes)

  • Presentation: The significance of setting measurable goals; how to monitor your strategy using success metrics; changing or reinforcing your product strategy; case study of a company that pivoted its strategy

Bridging the gap between strategy and execution (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Common reasons for the disconnect between strategy and execution; objectives and key results (OKR) framework for team alignment; other approaches to ensure that the whole organization is aligned with strategic goals

Your Instructor

  • Bandan Jot Singh

    Bandan Jot Singh is a product leader with global reach, working with leading technology firms, such as Booking.com and Gojek, across Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and India. He has led product teams (product managers, designers, and researchers) for both technology startups and regulated financial institutions. Bandan also writes product case studies on Productify.substack.com and shares product knowledge @bandanjot.

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