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The Scientific Method in Product Innovation

The Innovation Vortex effectively encapsulates the scientific process, making it an innovation model that looks remarkably similar to pictures that visualize the scientific model.

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Understand User Scenarios

Stop making products; start crafting experiences. These days, it’s about creating cohesive and personalized user journeys. The role of AI in shaping these user experiences will be pivotal.

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Hard Agile, Soft Agile, and Not Agile

Labeling every non-pure Agile approach as “waterfall” is not helpful. Big Design Upfront only exists in the first quadrant, which we can indeed label as “Not Agile.”

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I Don’t Do Sprints

It makes no sense to trigger all my processes with the same cadence. I don’t have one cadence. I have many.

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We Don't Believe in an Implementation Roadmap.

An agile transformation is not a step-by-step process with a linear roadmap. It is messy, fuzzy, and non-linear. You must revisit each stream of the Innovation Vortex regularly, and your organization design will never achieve the status of Done. The best you can aim for is Good Enough for Now.