How product managers can boost innovation in companies large and small In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. It's a book that spoke to me. It tied together many of my experiences and I helped me put them into a framework. It shared the need to get …
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TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler
Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. And, those are the topics our guest, Roman Pichler, explores with us in this …
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TEI 288: Design sprints for product managers – with John Zeratsky
The recipe for rapid product design for product managers A Design Sprint is how you can solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days. That is also the subtitle of the groundbreaking book called Sprint. The Design Sprint became popular at Google a few years ago, which is also when Sprint was …
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TEI 287: How an insight became a lip balm for speakers – with Ginger King
What product managers can learn from the story of a beauty product There is much to learn from a good product story; how an insight leads to an idea, which becomes a product concept and grows into a business case resulting in developing a new product that is launched and grows through the product …
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TEI 286: Get the 5-step process that is changing how innovation works in organizations across the world – with Pete Newell
How product managers can lead innovation and help transform their organization My guest is changing how companies innovate and he is doing it with a 5-step process. You'll hear the details in the discussion, but the five steps are called: sourcing, curation, discovery, incubation, and …
TEI 285: What video storytelling can teach product managers – with Patrick Shelton
How video directors think about creating effective videos can help product managers create better products Some of the best product management lessons come from unexpected places, and I enjoy finding them. This interview is a perfect example. Current Resident is the name of a creative video production group in …
TEI 284: The Disney way of innovation – with Duncan Wardle
The strategies the Disney Head of Innovation used to bring products customers love to life Last year I was at a product management conference in Orlando and the keynote speaker discussed leadership at Disney. It got me interested in how Disney innovates. A few months later I found out about Duncan Wardle, who was the …
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TEI 283: 2020 Summit Lessons Learned – with Chad McAllister
Lessons Learned from launching The Everyday Innovator Virtual Summit After hosting the 2020 virtual summit for product managers and product VPs, I've been asked many times for my lessons learned: what made it great, what would I do differently, what advice I have, what I learned about launching a product, …
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TEI 282: Do you have an innovator’s mindset to succeed as a product manager? – with Chuck Swoboda
The beliefs that enable innovation for product managers Are you an innovator? Not every product manager is, but I think the good ones need to be. Innovation is most frequently described as a process that brings something new into existence, creating value for others, such as customers. Our guest shares that …
TEI 281: The right way to use experiments to create better products more quickly – with Stefan Thomke
How to make experimentation work for product managers If you work in a medium to large company, your CEO wants the organization to be more innovative. All the surveys about such things tell us this is the case. If you are in a smaller organization or on your own, you still care about innovation. But, how can you bring …
The primary responsibilities for an organization are product management and innovation. They deliver value to customers. They're also exciting responsibilities for those properly equipped. That is my job - equipping product managers and innovators. 