Have you ever had an ‘A-ha’ light bulb moment? Or shouted “EUREKA!” in a moment where it seems from out-of-the blue you suddenly solve a problem you had long ago stopped thinking about? Chances are most of us has experienced this moment at least once in our lifetimes, and more than likely, we have all experienced it multiple times. Have you ever wondered how you can make these eureka moments, and the wonderful ideas that come with it, come to the surface as needed? I mean how many times have y...

If only there was an Oscar for best problem solving, Moneyball probably would have won. Have you seen it? Well, I finally got around to watching it last week – for some reason I had been hesitating because I can’t remember the last Brad Pitt movie I liked, and well, I am more of a basketball fan than baseball – but surprisingly, I quite liked it. I also found it quite relevant to the field of product management and innovation. Here was this baseball team (Oakland A’s) who were pretty much ...

  I recently read an article on training the brain, which asked me to state what the next number the author was thinking of in the following set of numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8… What do you think? Well if you are like me, I figured it was a pattern increasing by 2, and guessed 10 straight away  - turns out I was wrong. In fact the author was going to state 9, because while there was a pattern of increasing by 2, there was also just a pattern of increasing numbers – I just quickly assumed sh...

It’s safe to say that everyone has jumped on a bandwagon at some point in their life. I can even say that, and I’m usually very leery of them, often times turning my back to them as they roll on by. But whether the bandwagon is for a person, sports team, a product, political movement, social movement or anything else really - we have all jumped on a bandwagon at some point in our life. And how can we not? We are constantly bombarded by dramatic headlines trying to lure us onto one. Do any of th...

‘What Men and Women Really Want’ -  that was the question attempted to be answered by an article I was recently sent to read – and while the busy infographic hurt my eyes,  and the answers themselves amused me, what I really found interesting was the means of getting the answers. Social media monitoring company NetBase had gathered up, then sliced and diced, a year’s worth (over 27 billiion) of online conversation to come up with a summary of the results presented in a brightly colour...