Product Quest Podcast

Product Quest Podcast

The Product Quest Podcast follows Jonathan Edwards, Scott Burleson and Yann Wermuth on their quest to the land of product excellence. Along with their guests, they bring together topics, tools and cutting-edge approaches that help companies develop products that customers will buy and love.

Episodes

October 7, 2024 84 mins

Today, we welcome Jeff Baker. Jeff is president of IGI Group Consulting; standing for Insight for Growth & Innovation. a firm that uses Jobs-to-be-Done and research methods to help firms grow and thrive. 

Jeff and I worked together, years ago, when we both worked for Strategyn - which is ground zero for Outcome-Driven Innovation, a proven system for applied JTBD. He’s been a steady contributor to the world of JTBD for quite a f...

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In this episde we hand over the mic to Pam Henderson an let her interview us about Jobs-to-be-done.

Pam is an entrepreneur, professor, and founder and CEO of NewEdge, a growth strategy firm that anchors growth in “opportunity” also, she’s the author of a book with an intriguing title, “Killing Ideas: You can kill an idea, you can’t kill an opportunity. . 

Today, we’re passing the interviewer role to Pam - while Yann, Jonathan and I...

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Today, we have an extra special episode as we welcome two superheroes of Jobs-to-be-done and we plan to get into the weeds. 

First, Dr. Lance Bettencourt. Lance is widely published, and all practitioners should know his work,  most notably with MIT Sloan Review and Harvard Business Review. All should know his HBR article “The Customer-Centered Innovation Map,” where Lance and Tony Ulwick first described the job map… He also has ext...

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Today, we have an extra special episode as we welcome two superheroes of Jobs-to-be-done and we plan to get into the weeds. 

First, Dr. Lance Bettencourt. Lance is widely published, and all practitioners should know his work,  most notably with MIT Sloan Review and Harvard Business Review. All should know his HBR article “The Customer-Centered Innovation Map,” where Lance and Tony Ulwick first described the job map… He also has ext...

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In this episode we continue our exploration of the Cynefin framework and how to apply it to innovation. We have already discussed it in a previous episode (Episode 64 with Tom Kerwin). We now want to look at it from another perspective.

Our guest William Bartlett is in the field building solutions, meaning he has first hand experience with the challenges of turning the output of a disco...

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With us today is Steve Portigal. I have been recommending his book “Interviewing Users: How to uncover compelling insights” all the time for anyone interested in interviewing users.

 

It’s now out in a second edition and with the promo code QUEST you can get 10% off here: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interviewing-users-second-edition/.

Steve...

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Today, we welcome Pam Henderson. Pam is an entrepreneur, professor, and founder and CEO of NewEdge, a growth strategy firm that anchors growth in “opportunity.” - in quotes, I say ‘in quotes’ because Pam created a method known as Opportunity Thinking, a creative approach to innovation.

She’s the author of a book with an intriguing title, “Killing Ideas: You can kill an idea, you can’t kill an opportunity. . 

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Today we have a guest that if you don’t know him it more than about time that you do. He’s something of a UX rockstar and one of the leading most influential experts in the field: Jared Spool. He is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers and where he’s training the next UX generation. In the decades he’s been in ...

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Our guest today is Tom Kerwin (https://triggerstrategy.com). Tom is an innovation and UX consultant and coach. He is the author of the card deck Innovation Tactics, a deck of methods, exercises and frameworks that helps to make things people really want (we like that here). Tom is also an active proponent of Cynefin, a decision support framework created by Dave Snowden and he has co-facilitated a workshop with...

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Today, we welcome Urko Wood. Urko is the founder of Reveal Growth Consultants, a firm that uses Jobs-to-be-Done to help firms grow and thrive. 

Urko and I worked together, years ago, when we both worked for Strategyn - which is ground zero for Outcome-Driven Innovation, a proven system for applied JTBD. He’s been a steady contributor to the world of JTBD for quite a few years now.  

Urko: It’s great to reconnect and I know that we ...

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Today we have Robyn Bolton as our guest. Robyn M. Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, an innovation consultancy that works with leaders of medium and large businesses to navigate the uncertainty of innovation's "fuzzy front end" to confidently grow their businesses.  Before founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and strategy firm that does not need an introduct...

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Today, we welcome Brandon Cornuke. Brandon is Senior Director of Innovation for University Hospitals Ventures, an organization charged with deploying healthcare innovation at scale.

He’s the author of The Value Proposition Matrix, something that we’re sure to get into today.

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Today, we welcome our special guest, Dr. Theomora Ziamou. She is a behavioral scientist who has worked for the EU through the European Commission, Ernst & Young,  UNESCO - and today with her own consultancy, Enlexis.

Our stated goal on the Product Quest Podcast is to better understand innovation and product strategy. A real mystery that most product managers and leaders ...

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Today we’ll be chatting to Greg Larking who calls himself a business punk. From what I can see the emphasis is on both: business and punk.

He predicted the subprime financial crisis in 2006 and worked as a director of product innovation at Bloomberg. Now he advises companies such as Google, PWC, Uber, Sky and other Fortune 500 companies to launch transformative products and empower entrepr...

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In this episode, Jonathan Edwards, Yann Vermuth, and Scott Burleson talk to Professors Daniel Trabucchi and Tommaso Buganza from the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano about their book "Platform Thinking" (more at: https://platformthinking.eu/). They talk about the different kinds of platforms and how platform thinking can be used to think about businesses and foster innovation.

You will learn how renowned companies, suc...

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Many listeners will know that this podcast has a JTBD affection to put it mildly. In this episode we will do something very Un-JTBD like: We will talk about a solution! It’s a solution that everyone is talking about right now: Artificial intelligence. What we want to do today is look at AI from two perspectives. The first one is how AI is or might be useful in the context of the Jobs-to-be-done philosophy and practice. The second o...

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Our guest today, Eckhart Boehme, is a strategy consultant and the developer of the Customer Progress Design method. He is the co-creator of the Wheel of Progress, a canvas based on JTBD and inspired by Bob Moesta's 4 forces model. More recently Eckhart has been experimenting with AI tools and has developed an AI-based app that helps with analyzing customer interviews and processing the data.

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Wermuth and Jonathan Edwards. 

Today, we welcome our special guest, Dan Adams. Dan is the founder and president of The AIM Institute and is author of New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth.  He’s a chemical engineer by training and the holder of many patents, including a listing in the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame. 

He has also recently published another book, “Business Builders,” which will be our topic ...

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Today we will dive into the challenges of becoming and being a Product manager with Dr. Bart Jaworski. Bart is a Senior Product Manager at StepStone, he has worked as a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and is a LinkedIn Top Product Management Voice. Through his online courses on https://drbartpm.com/ he has trained over 18.000 people in various aspects of Product Management – from how to land a PM job to ru...

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In our podcast we often talk about innovation frameworks, models, theories and so on. While these topics are important, innovation success also depends A LOT on people and how they collaborate – or not. With our guest Sebastian Hamers of human insight, we want to talk about people and how they are best put together to achieve high innovation performance teams.

Sebastian has worked in and studied innovative e...
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