TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Sarah Doody:

A product is more than an idea, it’s more than a website, and it’s more than a transaction or list of functionalities. A product should provide an experience or service that adds value to someone’s life through fulfilling a need or satisfying a desire. The ultimate question then becomes: who identifies that value? After the executive or stakeholder identifies the initial idea, who in the organization ensures that the product and experience deliver value to the user? Maybe it isn’t the product manager, marketer, technologist, or designer; perhaps what we need is a new role: the product storyteller.

That’s the difference, coincidentally, between this era and the past one: products now must be rooted in a world view or idea for why it exists.