An Innovator's Sketchbook

An Innovator's Sketchbook discusses technology, product management, and entrepreneurship. It explores the relationship between technology and innovation, strategies in transitioning and managing product teams, embracing skunkworks for corporate innovation, applying frameworks and design thinking in product development, and leveraging AI for efficiency and creativity in content creation and product management.

Technology and Innovation Product Management Entrepreneurship Team Dynamics and Strategy Healthcare Innovation AI and Content Creation User Experience and Design Thinking Visual Thinking in Product Design

The hottest Substack posts of An Innovator's Sketchbook

And their main takeaways

Navigating the Shift from Feature to Product Teams and Building a Product Mindset

98 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management Feedback Team Dynamics Leadership Organizational Culture
  1. Transitioning from feature to product teams involves empowering cross-functional teams focused on outcomes and value.
  2. The localization industry is evolving with AI, leading to job destruction but also creating new business opportunities.
  3. Feedback is important for team growth, and using the 'Situation-Behavior-Impact' framework can lead to effective and powerful feedback.

Technology and Innovation. A complicated relationship?

117 implied HN points • 14 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Innovation Book review
  1. Innovation involves turning ideas into tangible products or services that create value and are exchanged for money or data.
  2. Successful innovation requires tangibility, value creation, and customer payment.
  3. Technology and innovation have a complex relationship where not all technological advancements translate into successful innovations.

Maximizing Product Management Efficiency with ChatGPT and Generative AI

19 implied HN points • 28 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Product Management Generative AI Automation Data Analysis
  1. Leverage AI to boost personal productivity in product management through planning, execution, and user feedback analysis.
  2. Use large language models (LLMs) in product strategy for idea generation, evaluation, and decision-making.
  3. Optimize day-to-day efficiency by using AI to break down goals into manageable tasks and plan daily schedules.

The Power of Skunkworks Projects (a conversation with ChatGPT)

98 implied HN points • 02 Apr 23
💼 Business Innovation Organizational Culture Product Development Corporate strategy
  1. Large companies must grow through expanding market penetration or entering new markets, either by inventing new products or acquiring other companies.
  2. Challenges of creating successful new products in large companies include bureaucracy, risk aversion, resource competition, resistance to change, and short-term focus.
  3. Skunkworks projects are effective for innovation in large companies, requiring careful planning, autonomy, cross-functional teams, open communication, agile processes, and customer-centricity.
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From idea to reality: how I designed the Digital Care Program framework

78 implied HN points • 05 Feb 23
  1. Designed a Digital Care Program framework with modules to collect data and provide recommendations and educational materials.
  2. Focused on improving information exchange between patients and physicians through digital tools and monitoring vital parameters.
  3. Created a flexible framework for various healthcare programs like prevention, disease awareness, chronic patient support, and possibly clinical trials.

Introducing AI Loves Pasta, a cool AI generated content creation project

39 implied HN points • 13 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Content creation Product Management Artificial Intelligence Tools
  1. AI Loves Pasta is a project exploring AI generated content creation in the area of cooking and gastronomy.
  2. The project aims to use ChatGPT for recipe creation, social media distribution, and potential monetization.
  3. The creator plans to publish an ebook in 20 weeks, build an Instagram presence, and track progress through regular updates.