The corporate innovation lab is often the most expensive theatre production in business. We’ve all seen the script: a "glossy" launch event, a handful of entrepreneurs-in-residence with cool sneakers, …
The Agentic Shield: Defending Product Value Against the Rot Economy
For more than twenty-five years, I have watched technology cycles oscillate between the "magic" phase and the "utility" phase. I remember the early days at Nokia when we treated the mobile phone as a …
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The Great AI Sobriety Test: Why 2026 is the Year of Pragmatic Product Leadership
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 …
Kodak’s Lost Moment: What Product Leaders Must Learn from the First Digital Camera
What separates an invention from an industry transformation? The story of the first handheld digital camera is a useful lens. It’s not just a tale about pixels replacing film — it’s about incentives, …
The Brittleness Paradox: Why Efficiency Kills Innovation—and What Leaders Must Do About It
Organisations spend decades chasing efficiency: fewer handoffs, standardised processes, central governance. And yet the same measures that squeeze waste out of operations can also remove the very …
Why Most Corporate Incubators Fail — and How Product Leaders Fix Them
Too many corporate incubators are built as theatre: glossy launch events, a handful of entrepreneurs-in-residence, and a slide deck full of future-state revenue curves. A year later most projects are …
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