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Creativity and the Collective Mind

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 13 days ago
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Creativity and the Collective Mind Read Time: 3 Minutes Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.” – Ken Robinson Is your team creative? Do you find yourself searching for innovative ideas? Is your team capable of innovation and functions as an efficient ensemble in pursuit of new products or services? As product managers, can we promote the collective and creative mind in design teams? The following TED talks challenge our views regarding mental spaces, diversity ...
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Ideation and the Designer's Mindset – TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 12-09-2024
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Ideation and the Designer's Mindset – TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes Ideation and the Designer’s Mindset People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, in the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity. – Robert Rauschenberg Designers embrace curiosity, imagination, flexibility, and a user-centric perspective when designing products or services. In their quest for new concepts that embrace uniqueness, differentiation, and meaning, designers open mental spaces through thinking critically. The ...
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Leadership TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Rose Klimovich posted 12-06-2024
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Leadership Ted Talks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes The anti-CEO playbook by Hamdi Ulukaya Click Here to Watch Profit, money, shareholders: these are the priorities of most business leaders today. But at what cost? Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya calls for an end to the business playbook of the past and shares his vision for a new, "anti-CEO playbook" that prioritizes people over profits. This is the new way to win. Practitioner Points: People First : Ulukaya emphasizes the importance of prioritizing employees and community over profits. A strong, inclusive culture leads to better business outcomes. ...
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Sustainable Product Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 11-22-2024
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Sustainable Product Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes Sustainable Product Design “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production.” – Pete Seeger Can we design products considering environmental, social, and economic impacts during the use life cycle? Can we ensure our products do not lose value at the end of their life cycle? Circular product design means designing products that do not create waste or pollution and allow for the recirculation or reuse of materials, ...
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Relating Portfolio Management to Strategy

By Salvador Gonzalez-Garcia posted 10-03-2024
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Relating Portfolio Management to Strategy When asking small and medium enterprises about how they select their portfolio, it can be surprising to observe that the CEO’s intuition is a common “method” to select the projects in which they will invest. According to PDMA’s Body of Knowledge (Anderson et al, 2020) the previous approach can be seen as a “top-down” method for portfolio management. (Anderson et al, 2020) also propose the idea of strategic buckets as a categorization method to assign resources after the types of projects (or buckets) that contribute to the organizational strategies as defined. Strategic agility can be defined as the ...
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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

By Jeffrey Phillips posted 08-19-2024
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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity Read Time: 8 Minutes I've been reading and thinking a lot lately about what is described as a "culture of innovation". While I would like to think that such an animal exists, the more skeptical side of me doubts it. I think a culture of innovation is kind of like a unicorn: it would be cool if it existed, and some people claim to have seen one, but when you get up close it's just a normal animal that happens to be missing a horn. In other words, we see what we want or hope to see. Every business has a culture. Let's start with base principles and agree on that. Another base principle is that most ...
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TED Talks on Team Leadership

By Rose Klimovich posted 08-13-2024
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TED Talks on Team Leadership Read Time: 2 Minutes Lead like the Great Conductors Click Here to Watch Watch Time: 20 Minutes In this video Itay Talgam talks about leading a team the way a conductor leads an orchestra – producing music out of chaos. Practitioner Points: Different leaders have different leadership styles. These styles effect how a team operates, how team members work together and what the team can accomplish. The leader needs to lead. But a great team involves not only the leader but the individuals who are part of the team and how they react to the leader. The leader needs to be aware of how to get the most from ...
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Simplicity in Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 05-02-2024
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Simplicity in Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antonine de Saint-Exupery How do we make things as simple, inexpensive, functional, and freely interconnected as possible? Simplicity in product design is the art of creating intuitive, efficient, and easy-to-use products. It involves stripping away unnecessary complexities and focusing on the essential features and functions that fulfill the user's needs. A simple design prioritizes clarity, consistency, and minimalism, enhancing user experience and reducing ...
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Creativity - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 12-20-2023
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Creativity - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes The Power of Imagination Designing products and services involves deeply understanding consumers’ beliefs, attitudes, and inner selves as product managers; the journey to a fine and competitive product is a function of user insights, competitiveness, value-added, differentiation, and effective execution. Unlike artificial intelligence and other technology, people possess a faculty computers can’t match: the power to imagine and act on new possibilities. Our unique ability is imagination. Meet the imagination worker: those who think creatively to envision a different future and ...
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Motivating Teams - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Rose Klimovich posted 12-20-2023
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Motivating Teams - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes The Puzzle of Motivation by Dan Pink Click here to Watch Keeping team members motivated is challenging for leaders. Looking at the science of teams, Dan Pick offers some ways to motivate people. Dan Pink’s 2009 TED talk uses humor and personal experience to explain how the business model of carrot and stick stifles motivation rather than driving it. Pink explains that for more complicated problems needing cognitive skills, giving the team leader flexibility and adapting your motivational model to more intrinsic motivation is the best way to keep your team driven. ...
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Function Analysis: Foundation to Concept Development

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 11-13-2023
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Function Analysis: Foundation to Concept Development Read Time: 5 minutes The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. In the end, it will be these details that give the product life. Charles Eames Consumers purchase products because they can perform specific functions. For example, a consumer will buy a cellular phone because it accomplishes the “facilitates communication” function. A customer will purchase a lawn mower because it performs the function of “cutting grass.” These are known as the basic functions. Products and services generally perform basic and secondary functions ...
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Improving Innovation Decision Making

By David Matheson posted 10-16-2023
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Read Time: 2 Minutes When asked “How would you know a good decision if you saw one”, audience members at PDMA’s Inspire Innovation conference September 18, 2023 in New Orleans said things like “Alignment with goal and vision” and “Aligned with expectations” and “True alignment (not just superficial agreement)” – are you getting a theme? Many people had breakthroughs: getting commitment was the part of a good decision and the result of a process that could be engineered! Many also realized that their current process framework (Phase Gate) wasn’t set up to deliver good decisions, resulting in frustration in this area, and were inspired that there might be ...
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The Application of Jobs to Be Done in B2B Markets: Unlocking Value and Driving Innovation

By Scott Burleson posted 08-16-2023
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The Application of Jobs to Be Done in B2B Markets: Unlocking Value and Driving Innovation Read time: 4 minutes As the speed of innovation increases, understanding customer needs and creating products and services that address those needs is crucial for success. The Jobs-to-Be-Done (JTBD) framework has gained significant attention in recent years as a powerful philosophy for customer-centric innovation. Initially developed in the context of consumer markets , JTBD is just as relevant for business-to-business (B2B) sectors. I. Understanding JTBD in B2B Markets The Jobs-to-Be-Done framework is centered around the idea that customers "hire" ...
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Design Studio Workshops: Ideation, Problem-Solving, and the MVP

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 07-25-2023
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Design Studio Workshops: Ideation, Problem-Solving, and the MVP Read time: 4 minutes “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” Helen Keller What Is a Design Studio? A design studio is a UX workshop combining divergent and convergent thinking in an ideation process, focusing on finding solutions to a problem, and providing the platform to aid prototyping efforts. It combines brainstorming, setting priorities, and adjusting solution demands in a fast, energetic, and collaborative environment. Several refer to design studios as design sprints, UX workshops, etc. Design studios include diverse perspectives, ...
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Working Styles for Product Team Success

By Rose Klimovich posted 06-08-2023
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PDMA Body of Knowledge: Culture, Teams & Leadership Insights #6 Read time: 5 minutes The kHUB Curator Team members have each been assigned a BoK section to own. This includes seeking, editing and sharing content related to that section. The curators are also sharing their perspective of various sub-sections of their chapter and contributing personal examples, experience, or related articles corresponding to the subject matter. Chapter 6 Insights – Culture, Teams & Leadership Working Styles for Product Team Success Most companies have many teams working on various product areas. One key area that can be overlooked is how to choose ...
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Portfolio and Portfolio Management

By Salvador Gonzalez-Garcia posted 06-01-2023
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Portfolio and Portfolio Management: PDMA Body of Knowledge: Chapter 2 Insights Read time: 2 minutes The kHUB Curator Team members have each been assigned a BoK section to own. This includes seeking, editing and sharing content related to that section. The curators are also sharing their perspective of various sub-sections of their chapter and contributing personal examples, experience, or related articles corresponding to the subject matter. Chapter 2 Insights – Portfolio Management Portfolio and Portfolio Management According to the PDMA Body of Knowledge 2 nd edition, a portfolio is “A set of projects or products that ...
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TED Talks Related to Product Design & Development Tools

By Carlos M. Rodriguez posted 05-11-2023
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TED Talks Related to Product Design & Development Tools Read time: 2 minutes Have you heard the statement: Forms follow function? When designing products, we often identify the consumer needs to solve, translate them to functions, identify clusters, and build an architecture that allows us to generate derivates. But what if we design forms that drive functions? In such a case, we may need to use emotions as mediators between forms and functions. Emotions allow us to understand forms. These TED talks challenge our curious minds to understand the most profound relationships among functions, forms, and emotions in consumption experiences. ...
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ChatGPT for Product Development and Product Management

By Rose Klimovich posted 03-02-2023
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ChatGPT for Product Development and Product Management Read time: 5 minutes Lots of people are talking about ChatGPT and its use in schools and businesses. Can this technology be useful to Product Developers and Product Managers? What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT, is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It uses machine learning algorithms to generate human-like responses to text-based conversations. It has been trained on a diverse range of texts from the internet, including websites, books, and other written materials, and can understand and respond to a wide variety of topics and questions. The purpose is to provide a conversational interface ...
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Why We Disagree on Scrum

By Robert Webber posted 02-07-2023
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Read time: 3 minutes I often read through the passionate LinkedIn debates about whether Scrum has been successful. My observation is that much of the disagreement is based on the different environments in which Scrum is applied. My conclusion is that nobody’s wrong. I assert that your perspective on Agile success depends on three characteristics of your organization: Modularity – The degree to which functionality can be added or changed by independent Agile teams. Familiarity – The extent to which the Agile teams are familiar with the domain. Flexibility – The degree to which Agile teams can vary scope and/or schedule to incorporate ...
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Strategy - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights

By Rose Klimovich posted 01-19-2023
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Ted Talks – Strategy Read time: 2 minutes 3A Strategic Thinking | Rich Horwath , Strategic Thinking Institute This is not a Ted Talk but a short video on Strategy. This video is about how to think more strategically. Practitioner points: When you do strategy, you need to think about what you want to do and how you are going to get there. Your plan needs new insights and new ideas from many people both inside and outside the business. Don’t just put the plan on the shelf when it is done. You need to use your plan to drive your corporate activities. Watch time: 9 minutes Read Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ...
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