Product Innovation Series with Aram Melkoumov

Customer feedback is no trivial matter at Trainual. 6 hours of weekly customer calls are non-negotiable. It’s how they build a product that’s replica-proof. At the beginning of the episode, Taylor shares the story behind Trainual’s restructuring exercise that they went through after discovering inefficiencies that were stopping them from scaling. In Taylor’s words “people were stepping on each oth...

Think of the customer-led growth approach as a holistic psychotherapeutic user interview. Who is a product manager if not a therapist who is well-versed in their product? About Aggelos Aggelos Mouzakitis is a jobs-to-be-done customer researcher. He currently works at a company called Growth Sandwich in London and has master’s degree in psychotherapy. Aggelos is a qualitative researcher with passio...

Feel free to DM Aram directly with product questions:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melkoumov/ Specifically, in this event you’ll discover: - The right way to plan, strategize, design, and develop your MVP - The secret hacks we use to improve efficiency and output - A step-by-step breakdown of a real-world MVP we built for one of our clients’ Our awesome panel:  Aram Melkoumov (Founder and CEO of C...

About Dan Dan Toma is a founding partner at Outcome, a consultancy that helps large companies navigate innovation for the future while maintaining the health of their core business. An entrepreneur with a startup orientation, he brings a blue-chip depth of knowledge that spans the full spectrum of established industries. Co-author of "The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Su...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Key Takeaways: 0:00 | Introduction to Peter LePiane 1:30 | Keeping large remote groups engaged requires a strategy – and realism. 5:31 | Peter defines change management and what it encompasses. 8:12 | About internal cultural indicators (i.e. mindsets) that can stall change adoption. 10:56 | Deploying an expe...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Get Radical Product Thinking book here: https://www.radicalproduct.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Product-Thinking-Mindset-Innovating/dp/1523093315 Highlights: - How to think like “everything is a product” - Writing a product vision like a user story: dos and don’t - Myth about Steve Jobs not doing user...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - Moshe’s journey to product management - Difference between B2B and B2C product development - How to get better at managing a product - How Moshe wrote his first novel called “Ressurector” About Moshe Moshe is a leader in product management who started his career on the engineering side, specifi...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - Most companies don’t solve real problems - Good reasons to start a company - Why product frameworks exist in the first place - What are the risks of following Lean-Startup frameworks religiously About Ben Ben Yoskovitz is an entrepreneur, investor and author with 25+ years experience in the tec...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - Dustin’s career path to becoming a chief product officer - What enterprise companies can adopt from startups to empower product managers - What does product development cycle looks like at Dustin’s company Apex - Process to define user personas at Apex About Dustin Dustin is the Chief Product O...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - Qualities all great product managers have - You don’t need to take PM courses - What to look for when hiring a PM and onboarding them About Camila Camila is a product manager with a previous career in photography and a creative background, and she advocates for great and functional design for n...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - What Mohan looks in people when hiring - Ways to get your project stakeholders onboard - Where Mohan’s product team goes to find ideas - What will change in the media industry in the next 5 years About Mohan Mohan is a senior member of the Digital Leadership team at TorStar (Canadian media comp...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - Leading with no authority as a PM, why you are setup to be blamed most of time and what to do - How to succeed in your next PM role and end up with actual authority - Practical steps in getting stakeholder buy-in and how to sell your project the right way - What you should starting doing as a P...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - How Facebook does user research in a matter of a few weeks - Instant booking feature at tripadvisor.com drove the whole strategy of the company - takeaways - Biggest misconceptions around innovation - Getting a buy-in from your innovation leaders on your project (Amazon example) About Ravi Ravi...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Conversation highlights:  What coding gives you as a PM How Sean built his own app for iPad and approached an MVP StoryTap’s vision after raising 3 million dollars About Sean Sean Braacx is a startup product manager, accidental full stack developer, and dad of two rambunctious boys. He is the co-founder and...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Innovation is a lot more than an “initiative”. It’s a culture, it’s a new attitude. It’s set of beliefs that you have to have your leadership aligned around. Legacy orgs who created open spaces to mimic “google thinking” thought it will solve their culture. It didn’t it. Innovation is a constant ongoing thin...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - What does it take to commit to innovation and not just do it for the show - What does the innovation process look like at MLSCE - How MLSCE created an innovation process that proved to be a game-changer - Actionable advice to innovation leaders About Christian Christian Magsisi is Senior Direct...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. You don’t need to “double down” on innovation. You need to build the right environment to listen to your employees and customers.  Most companies say they are listening, but their employees know it's not true. Convincing your innovation leaders that it’s the right time innovate becomes a lot easier when peop...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - How do you ideate and validate innovation at startups vs enterprise - What does the innovation process looks and works like at MPower - What levers you need to push to make innovation happen at a large organization - How companies can artificially limit innovation About Kin Kin Chung is a busin...

Follow me on Linkedin for quickest product show updates, new episodes and highlight clips. Highlights: - How content consumption behaviour is changing with the current lockdown environment - How James shows ROI on his internal projects - What innovation leaders should stop doing ASAP About James James works at NBCUniversal. He is a results-proven professional accomplished in planning and executing...

Follow me on Linkedin for similar content and personal updates. Highlights: - Eran’s unconventional path to product management - Challenges of managing product team - What didn’t work when Eran was trying to scale his team - What Eran has learned as a product leader in the last 5 years About Eran Eran is an experienced B2C & B2B executive leader, with a proven track record in defining successf...

Highlights: - How to approach experimentation and develop a mindset of experimentation - Assessing and testing product ideas - Transitioning into product management and how it influences your perspective About Pansy:   Pansy is a product leader at Clearco (formerly Clearbanc), where she is responsible for building new products and services to help founders succeed. Before Clearco, Pansy was the Di...

Highlights: - How did Navya and her team survived when the world shut down during COVID - How to be adaptable product leader - Horizontal vs vertical SaaS: how does it work - How to show ROI as a product leader About Navya Navya is the Chief Product Officer at Peek.com, responsible for scaling the platform known as the “Shopify for the $1 trillion experiences market".  Peek.com helps consumers boo...

Key talking points: What is product-led growth How product led growth differs from other growth models in terms of product development Why and how Charlie.ai team switched to product led growth Mistakes to avoid with product-led growth  About the speakers Sandy Mangat Sandy is currently VP Growth & Marketing at Charli AI. She is a senior product marketing and growth leader with experience in B...

Hackathons are not just for engineers. In fact it’s better if they are not. Shopify did a hackathon soon after the lockdown to encourage everyone to find ideas and improve working digitally with each other. That’s how you get lots of innovative ideas that come from anyone, not just engineers. That’s an innovative culture. Highlights: - What does the innovation culture look like at Shopify - Where...

Key talking points: - What every new PM has to do first thing after they join Gong - Advice on hiring rockstar PMs - What is Gong’s product team is doing better than their competition - How Eilon prioritizes what to focus on as a CPO of a #1 sales tool in B2B - How to empower product managers to lead and build great products About Eilon: Eilon Reshef is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at...