How to build productized services with the Productize Pathway®
Efficiency gains from AI have made delivery faster, which makes the economics of custom project work less feasible. Productizing services is the practice of turning...
A Smarter Way to Evaluate Technology Partners: Think Big, Start Small
Choosing the right technology partner is a critical decision that can make or break your product strategy. Whether you're implementing a new SaaS platform, integrating AI capabilities, or modernizing your infrastructure, the process of evaluating technology partners requires a structured and strategic approach.
Kill Underperforming Products: Crucial for a Product-Friendly Culture
There’s a writer's term-of-art (the origins of which are murky, with claims that it was coined by Earnest Hemmingway, Oscar Wilde, or William Faulker amongst others) that goes like this: to get to the best possible outcomes, you have to be willing to “kill your baby.”
What Kind of MVP is Right for You?
Some call it a Minimum Viable Product or MVP. Others call it a “Minimum Desirable Product” (MDP) or even “Simple, Complete and Lovable” product (SCLP). Whatever
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Innovate Faster and Take Action
Many times, big problems are solved with small tactics. For example, my phone chargers frequently frey at the connectors. However, a small tactic – covering the connector with the spring from inside of a pen – can prevent the frey. One broken pen saves me hundreds in new charging cords.
I spend a lot of time running Design Sprints for our clients.
I spend a lot of time running Design Sprints for our clients.
Design Sprints for B2B Companies
What do Slack, IBM, McKinsey, Stanford, the City of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art have in common? They all solved urgent and expensive problems using Design Sprints - a unique process for quickly solving our customers’ urgent and expensive problems through ideation, prototyping, and testing.
Co-Create Like LEGO to Build Better Products
One of my favorite shelter-in-place binge shows has been
LEGO Masters. Teams of LEGO enthusiasts compete to build original creations, and with each passing episode another team is sent home until a LEGO Master team is crowned. The show is fun, the builds are impressive and the show inspired my sons and me to haul out our tubs of LEGO and make our own new creations.
What I’ve Learned About Creativity.
I was speaking with a CEO a few weeks ago who said his team was struggling with new product innovation. I mistakenly assumed that the team had too many ideas, could not prioritize and focus, and, therefore, were diluting their efforts. Lack of focus is a problem I’m seeing with a lot of clients right now.
