Innovation isn’t stagnant. There’s no resting on laurels or patting oneself on the back for extended periods. Or, as New England Patriots football coach Bill Belichick succinctly put it, “To live in the past is to die in the present.” That’s how Sopheon approached the development of our innovation... Read More

In my article, Mastering product management: What I have learned from my kung fu journey, I used my 12+ years of study and practice of kung fu as a lens to understand what it takes to master product management. Innovation is the lifeblood of progress and success in today's fast-paced business... Read More

Knowing why your product exists and how it contributes value to the business is critical for its success. Without this, product managers risk wasting time and resources on products that lack value and struggle to make a lasting impact in the marketplace. The best products are founded on a company's... Read More

We’ve talked quite a bit lately about how InnovationOps—an approach that brings together an organization’s people, processes and the innovation jobs they do—helps to make innovation a predictable and repeatable exercise. It removes silos and encourages collaboration as everyone deprioritizes... Read More

Innovation efforts can be many things, but it should be predictable at its core. When many hear the word innovation, we think of creative brainstorming sessions where anything goes. And while creativity is critical to the process, continuous innovation must be structured to make it repeatable and... Read More

So, you’ve defined your user needs, you've turned them into feature and product ideas, you’ve prioritized those ideas, and proved that they're desirable, viable, feasible and aligned with your strategy. The next step to take in the product discovery process is to validate your ideas with real-world... Read More

Before becoming a product person, I studied microbiology and cell science in college (quite a transition, I know). As a result, I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of a catalyst. In science, a catalyst is an object that increases the frequency of successful collisions in a reaction and lowers... Read More

ChatGPT can be a valuable productivity improvement tool for product managers when we understand what it excels at and keep its limitations in mind. Read More

We’ve talked a great deal recently about the importance of having an InnovationOps approach to drive innovation at scale. Such an approach seamlessly connects people, processes and the innovation jobs they do, making innovation predictable and repeatable. The result is an environment promoting... Read More

The discovery phase of the innovation is exciting, as it brings forth ideas that, if nurtured correctly, bloom into everything from incremental improvements to transformative products and businesses. In short, it represents the innovation timeline's ‘anything’s possible’ period. On the outside,... Read More