TED Talks: What’s required to achieve high-performing teams Read Time: 3 Minutes By Anshul Garg A Simple Way to Inspire Your Team – David Burkus >> Click here to Watch Explains how recognition and purpose drive motivation. Practitioner Points: ...
The Human Element in Data: 3 TED Talks to Transform Your Market Research Read Time: 4 minutes By Kailiang Fu The Qualitative "Why" in a Quantitative World As Product Managers, we are often obsessed with "The Data." We track conversion funnels, churn coefficients, and engagement...
Why Are Abstractions Important in Product Design? Can They Inspire Your Thinking? Read Time: 3 Minutes Why Are Abstractions Important in Product Design? Can They Inspire Your Thinking? Simplicity is not the absence of clutter; that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is...
Stage-Gate®: The "Official" 2026 Version Read Time: 10 minutes By Robert G. Cooper The Stage-Gate® New Product Process For over forty years, the Stage-Gate® process has served as a framework for managing new product development (NPD). [1] Around the world, organizations rely...
Ted Talks on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Business Read Time: 3 Minutes AI Powered Business Reinvention by PwC Click here to Watch This TED talk is a compilation of speakers talking about AI in business. A few key points: Look at AI to...
‘China Speed’: Accelerated Product Development the Chinese Way Read Time: 5 minutes By Robert G. Cooper From the author: Colleagues and clients have been asking me about China Speed—how the Chinese are able to develop and launch new products so quickly. Are they doing something...
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...
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...
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...
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...