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...

  SOPA and PIPA – two acronyms that have been splashed across the pages of the news, taken over Twitter feeds with the #SOPA hash tag, and caused groups to form by the thousands on Facebook in protest against them. Seeing these words so often in the last month not only burned them into my brain (quite possibly forever), but also got me thinking about how these bills relate to product management – more precisely, the consequences of not addressing the right problems. Case in point – SOPA a...