AI is changing not only what product teams can build, but also what they need to take responsibility for. As digital products increasingly affect privacy, safety, fairness, human agency, and the environment, product ethics can no longer be an afterthought, a checklist exercise carried out just before the product is shipped. Instead, ethicality should be a core product success factor that is as important as desirability, feasibility, and viability. In this episode, I explain how you can make ethicality part of your innovation process, consider it when creating and updating the product strategy and measure how ethical your product is.

Related episodes:

• Product Strategy Discovery: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-strategy-discovery/
• Four Product Success Factors: https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/four-product-success-factors/

Read or listen to my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

Download the Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/product-vision-board/

Attend my workshops: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/

In theory, every product should create real value for a group of people and the business. But in practice, that’s not always the case. Worse, it can be tricky to understand if and to what extent a product does achieve the desired business impact and help the company move forward. With AI causing an upsurge in new digital assets, it’s more important than ever to successfully connect products and business strategy and make smart investment decisions. This episode explains how to do it.

Attend my workshops: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/

Read my bopok Strategize: https://www.romanpichler.com/romans-books/

Listen to these podcast episodes:

• The Strategy Stack
• Everything You Need to Know About Product Portfolio Strategy
• Succeeding with Portfolio Roadmaps

Over the past few years, many product teams have built AI fluency and started to apply AI to their work and products. That's great, but it is not enough to fully leverage AI in product management. Without the right product operating model in place, AI delivers only limited benefits. In this episode, I explain why this is and how you can create an effective product management approach that is optimised for AI.

Learn more and attend my workshops:

• Leadership: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-leadership/
• Strategy: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/

Listen to or read my books:

• How to Lead in Product Management: https://amzn.eu/d/69ypa3z
• Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

Related episodes:

• Succeeding with the Product Operating Model: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/succeeding-with-the-product-operating-model/
• Continuous Strategizing: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/continuous-strategizing/
• How to Use AI to Create a Winning Product Strategy: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/how-to-use-ai-to-create-a-product-strategy/

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you,” Steve Jobs once said. Creating such a forward momentum is a key benefit that a product vision should offer. Unfortunately, I’ve seen many visions that failed to move people. In this episode, I explain how you can create a truly inspirational vision that engages and motivates people.

Learn more and attend my product strategy workshop:

https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/

Listen to or read my product Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

Related episodes:

• The Product Strategy Framework: A Revised Guide for Product Leaders: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/romans-product-strategy-framework-v3/
• 5 Product Vision Mistakes You Should Avoid: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-vision-mistakes/
• Double Vision: Choosing the Right Approach to Capture the Product Vision: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/double-vision-choosing-the-right-approach-to-capture-the-product-vision/

One of the biggest mistakes I see product managers make is making decisions in isolation: Deciding on strategy without considering how it impacts product discovery and delivery, or determining UX and features without letting strategy guide those choices. Great products, however, aren’t built by separating strategy from execution. They’re created by connecting them. That’s exactly why I developed my product strategy model—a simple but powerful way to link product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog. This episode describes the framework in its latest, revised version.

REFERENCES:

• Product Strategy Discovery: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-strategy-discovery/
• Get the Outcomes on Your Product Roadmap Right: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/get-the-outcomes-on-your-product-roadmap-right/
• Continuous Strategizing: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/continuous-strategizing/
• Product Vision Board: https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-vision-board/
• GO Product Roadmap: https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/goal-oriented-agile-product-roadmap/
• Intro videos for the Product Vision Board and GO Roadmap: https://www.youtube.com/romanpichler

WORKSHOP: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/

BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

DOWNLOADS: https://www.romanpichler.com/tools/

Is it a good thing when product managers are hands-on and use AI to build prototypes and generate code? Will it increase productivity and job satisfaction? Will it deliver better products faster? Or will it result in poorly designed applications full of technical debt that nobody wants and needs?

Learn more and attend my workshops: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/

Read or listen to my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244