Posts by Chad McAllister
Improve Your Organization with Design Thinking & Change Leadership [podcast]
“How can we improve?” is a conversation taking place at nearly every organization. Innovators and product managers have the right perspective that is needed. They are uniquely equipped to make the move from building better products to building a better organization.
Read MoreThe Essential 4-step Product Innovation Process [podcast]
I love hearing how companies are creating successful products that provide customers value, which is the topic of this episode. Gordon Stannis, the Director of Design and Strategy at Twisthink shares their approach to developing innovative solutions for their Fortune 500 clients. Gordon started his work as an industrial designer and then moved into product…
Read More4 Steps to Build an Innovation Ecosystem [podcast]
I spoke with Kawasaki Motors’ Senior Manager of Corporate Research and Product Management, Dave Oventhal, to learn from their experience. We discussed the four steps for how product managers and innovators can help build a more effective innovation ecosystem in their companies.
Read MoreHistory as a Tool for Innovators & Product Managers
History can be a great tool in solving day-to-day problems encountered in innovation. After spending nearly 20 years at IBM, Scott Bowden is now traveling the globe to investigate and share how historic innovations provide lessons for the modern-day innovation practitioners – you and me.
Read MoreIntegrating Lean Startup and Stage-Gate
Lean Startup or Stage-Gate? More often organizations are not choosing one or the other but taking the “and†option and integrating both into their product processes. The challenge is how to get them to play nice with each other and gain the benefits of each without losing something in the process.
Read MoreCharting Change for Product Managers and Innovators
Adding change management tools to our product management toolbox is wise, which is why I interviewed the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit. He also wrote the book, Charting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick.
Read MoreThe Design of Value Proposition Design with Alex Osterwalder
If you are new to Value Proposition Design, think of it as the third leg of a stool consisting of Lean Startup and Design Thinking as the other legs — all three are similar in intent and each provides valuable tools, arguably with Alex’s tools being most valuable to product managers who think like product leaders — or in my words, product masters.
Read MoreProduct Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Chad McAllister interviews Richard Banfield, co-author his soon-to-be-released book “Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams”. Their discussion will give you a preview – and valuable insights for becoming a product leader.
Read MoreBuilding Product Lifecycle Excellence
Developing products in today’s market is a formidable task. Cycle times are shrinking and the pressure to do more with less is increasing. As the stress to get products to market faster increases, little room is left for learning through mistakes. But isn’t making mistakes an important part of the process?
Read More6 Tools: Jobs to be Done with Tony Ulwick [podcast]
Tony Ulwick is well known for the creation of Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) and as the founder of Strategyn. In this recent interview, Chad McAllister sits down with Tony who shares 6 tools from his new book, Jobs to Be Done: Theory to Practice.
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