⤴️ EVO12: Strategic Thinking applied to better career navigation as a Product professional
Product Evolution is about helping Product professionals, Product teams, Product organizations and the products they develop to level up.
Strategic thinking is a key skill to develop as a Product professional.
You can use it to get to a better situation:
For your product and its beneficiaries;
For your team and stakeholders;
And for your own career as well.
Here’s a short article1 that exemplifies 7 types of mental motions linked to strategic thinking applied to better navigating a career in Product Management:
Excerpt illustrating 2 exercises:
Zoom out + overview: understand the Product Management field as it works now (e.g. based on communications from professional associations, popular authors, exchanges in the local community of practice, informal interactions with peers from similar roles in other companies etc)
Extrapolate + anticipate: mentally project what’s probable to happen to the Product Management field (e.g. coworking with tools based on GPT-like technologies, merge with the UX Design field, increased need of standardization due to lots of new entrants in the field etc)
Enjoy and keep on evolving,
Bülent
Bülent Duagi is a Sr. Strategic adviser for Tech companies and a lifelong learner. He works at the intersection of Strategy, Foresight, Leadership, Org Design, Product and Capability Development. Learn more by exploring his professional one pager or connect on LinkedIn.
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