Strategic Planning Blog: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques

Product Planning: How to Organize Your Ideas With an Affinity Diagram

The world of product planning can be a complicated one to understand. However, the good news, is that there are countless solutions out there that can make it easier for you to find your ultimate, ideal design. Because every exceptional design starts with research, you’ll need to find a way to gather, organize, and use your data to inform your product planning roadmap. With design thinking techniques like user interviews, contextual inquiries, user experience information, and competitive analysis, you can gather important data about your user pain points, preferences and motivations in a personal, yet effective way.

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Perfect Prioritizing: Common Mistakes Made in Product Prioritization

There are plenty of reasons why your product might fail. Bad user experience, limited functionality, or even a mistake in manufacturing could send you back to the drawing board. However, companies frequently forget that a range of problems can appear during the product prioritization stage - before development even begins. Priorities are powerful things. Even if you have exceptional productivity and efficiency in your organization, those factors won’t mean much unless you’re focusing them on the most critical aspects of your company.

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5 simple steps to organize a business process catalog

Business process is a set of steps that help you achieve certain goals - whether it’s hiring proper specialists, delivering resources, setting up distribution channels or something else. If they aren’t set properly, then you might have serious problems - wasting time, money and losing quality. Whether you’ve just entered an organization or work there for ages and feel a need of improvement, these 5 simple steps will help you understand how to analyze a business process.

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Product Prioritization with Kano method

How to build a product customers love with Kano model When delivering a product, teams are usually focused on getting a good mix of quality and effort. However, they might spend months and even years on a high-quality stuff - but no one needs it after all. How to build a product that people will buy and use for sure? Kano method with his product prioritization matrix will help you.

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ITIL Service Catalog Assessment Template

Simple ITIL Service Catalog Template You Can Implement Right Now When you build a great product, you think that everyone should share your passion about it with no additional explanations. However, it’s not true, and even your client may lose understanding of all things you deliver. Want to provide transparency and quick access to them? This ITIL Service Catalog Template will help you (and feel free to borrow it right after reading).

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