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How do you manage the risks and challenges associated with introducing new product innovations?

Pavan Kumar

Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3mo

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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Where do you source breakthrough product ideas for your product?

Pavan Kumar

Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3mo

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...

372 Views

How much of your roadmap is focused on big bets vs incremental improvements?

Sailaja Kalle

Gainsight Director, Product Management • 1y

It depends on the roadmap that we are building. There needs a balance of both. The Big bets are more the innovations that will help do a leap frog. Given significant inve...

537 Views

How do you make data driven decisions for product?

Pavan Kumar

Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3mo

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 ...

366 Views

What do product managers get wrong when trying to innovate on their existing products?

Rupali Jain

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 ...

668 Views

What methods or frameworks do you use to generate and evaluate new product ideas?

Rupali Jain

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-...

793 Views

How do you foster a culture of innovation within your team or organization?

Pavan Kumar

Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3mo

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, ...

376 Views

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?

James Heimbuck

ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 1y

Talk to customers, talk to customers and talk to customers!! Any time you have a chance to talk to a customer or a potential customer take it! I find that mixing qualita...

1,236 Views

What roles do your engineering and design teams play in product innovation?

Pavan Kumar

Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco • 3mo

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...

343 Views

How do you make a business case for investing in a breakthrough product idea before building it?

Rupali Jain

Optimizely Chief Product Officer • 2y

The answer really depends on the size and scope of the idea. Making a case for a big idea is a mix of storytelling and hard facts. Here's my approach Start with the St...

1,767 Views

How does the importance of a product vision change from 0-1 products to a growing product to a very mature product?

Margaret (MJ) Jastrebski

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 ...

4,086 Views

What products do you really admire, either overall or particular elements?

Manjeet Singh

Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 5mo

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. ...

753 Views

How do you stay updated on emerging trends and technologies that could impact your industry and product?

Rupali Jain

Optimizely Chief Product Officer • 2y

Staying updated on emerging trends and technologies is important for ensuring that products remain competitive and relevant in the market. A caution however is to ensure ...

1,139 Views

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