Product Innovation
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
You manage innovation risk by making it explicit, breaking it into testable assumptions, and de-risking it in stages rather than betting big upfront.Identify and classify...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Breakthrough ideas don’t come from brainstorming sessions. They come from seeing what others overlook and connecting the dots early.In practice, they emerge from a combin...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
There’s no fixed ratio - it should evolve with product maturity. The best teams intentionally balance big bets and incremental improvements based on where the product is ...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Data-driven decisions, for me, are about combining data, context, and judgment - not just relying on dashboards.Start with a clear question or hypothesisWhat decision am ...
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Optimizely Chief Product Officer • 2y
There are several traps that product managers fall into when innovating on existing products. I'm outlining a few key ones below
Trap: One common misstep is getting too ...
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Optimizely Chief Product Officer • 2y
To generate new product ideas, get a cross functional mix of folks who know their stuff about your business and customers. Then, dive in to a brainstorm using Jobs-to-Be-...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Innovation thrives when teams have clarity on problems, permission to experiment, and a system to scale what works. You foster a culture of innovation by making it safe, ...
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How do you do customer discovery, and what is the hardest thing for you about it?
How do you go about figuring out what the most impactful problems are for you to solve for your customers? How do you validate that they are really problems and how many users have those problems?
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Customer discovery, for me, is about separating what customers say from what actually drives behavior, friction, and willingness to change. The goal is not just to collec...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Engineering and design are not execution functions in innovation - they are co-creators who shape the idea, not just build it.Design: problem framing and desirabilityBrin...
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Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 1mo
Start by tying the idea to a clear business outcome, then de-risk it with evidence before asking for full investment.Anchor on the “why now”What market shift, customer pa...
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AlphaSense SVP, Product and Design • 1y
Product vision is one of those amorphous concepts that everyone asks for, but never seems defined well enough for the team at large. In a high growth company, especially ...
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Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 3mo
The products I admire most are the ones that don't just solve a problem — they fundamentally redefine how you work and make you question why you ever did it the old way. ...
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JetBrains Head of Product | Formerly GitLab, Jit.io, Cellebrite, Anima • 2y
I proactively stay up to date by immersing myself in a wide range of online resources. This includes diligently reading technical blogs, competitive marketing analysis, a...
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