Engage your team and bring a concept to life through empathy building, developing a deep understanding of your stakeholders and users, and collaborate to uncover ‘big ideas.’ Test concepts with rapid prototyping and be confident in the solutions you bring to market.

Every business, no matter how large or small, will benefit from a consistent process to evaluate progress, refresh competitive intelligence, consider macro trends and update the strategy that will drive execution plans across the organization. While it is true that ‘culture eats strategy for lunch’ for an organization to thrive you need both. Let collaborative leadership shape the culture and your strategy becomes even more powerful.

Ideating, researching, designing and launching a product is hard work and it can be tempting to feel like you’ve reached the finish line once you are there. True lifecycle management understands that is just the beginning! Products and offerings are never ‘done’ and must continue to evolve or face declining revenues. Ensure you have the mechanisms to capture feedback. Analyze the feedback and broader results and continue to iterate on your offerings. Finally, know when it’s time to sunset an offering to prevent resource drain that could be redirected to new innovation.

Do you have a project that is struggling to get off the ground with too little research and too many competing priorities and opinions? 1-2 day workshops can unblock your teams and get them moving together in the right direction. Contact me to learn more about how I can help.

My experience launching new ML/AI products at IBM will be invaluable for organizations looking to understand what is possible and how to delight your customers leveraging the latest technologies. Hint: it’s harder than it looks to get it right. Start with the problem you are trying to solve and evaluate the data you have access to that will inform your model(s). Most importantly, build in a way for the solution(s) to improve their performance over time.