The head – Managing alignment
Defining a product vision, strategy, and roadmap is all part of the work of creating alignment. In Chapter 8, we discussed the concept of marrying your product vision and strategy with those of your leadership team. This is because the alignment you establish needs to be a reflection of those of your company. Product alignment is important for the AI native product because AI technology is central to value delivery. AI products need to solve the right problems for customers and they are highly cross-functional. This means all teams involved with development and strategy need to make sure they are working toward the same customer-centric goals.
Failure to do so would render the resource-intensive process of developing an AI system inefficient, which means a lot of wasted time, money, and brain power. We don’t work in a vacuum. There’s a reason why companies have core values in their career section when they’re recruiting...
