The "party" of brute-force scaling is winding down, and the industry is finally starting to sober up. For the past few years, the dominant narrative for CEOs and Product Leaders was simply "bigger is …
The Invisible Web: Why Distinctiveness is the Only Antidote to the AI Squeeze
For more than twenty-five years, I’ve watched technology cycles move from the "magic" phase to the "utility" phase, and finally, to what Cory Doctorow famously termed "enshittification." We saw it …
The Agentic Era: Why Your Product Strategy Must Move Beyond the Chatbox
For more than twenty-five years, I’ve watched technology cycles move from the "magic" phase to the "utility" phase. I remember the early days at Nokia when we thought the mobile phone was just a …
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Beyond Code: What 21 Lessons from Google Teach Us About the Human Side of Product
The technical brilliance inside companies like Google is obvious. What’s much harder — and more valuable — is the discipline of building products that humans actually want to use. A recent piece, 21 …
From Pilot to Product: How Product Leaders Turn AI Experiments into Durable Services
Too many AI pilots end up as well-intentioned slides or dusty prototypes. The technology gets praised, the metrics glow in a lab environment, and then the organisation asks the familiar question: why …
From Stalled Transformations to Product-Led Growth: How Product Teams Fix the 70% Failure Problem
Why most digital transformations stall — and why that is the wrong question Too many leaders still treat transformation as a programme: a three-year plan of projects, PowerPoints and KPI dashboards. …