Net Promoter Score: A step-by-step guide to reaching product-market fit by efficiently moving from an NPS survey to an updated roadmap. — If you’ve recently launched an innovative product, you’re probably gathering feedback for the next iterations while following a few metrics to ensure product adoption. How to ensure your product fits the market? How to ensure your product satisfies users? …

User Stories: a step-by-step guide to writing user stories to drive innovation, beyond the usual template, with a concrete example. — A user story is like the cell of an innovating organization: it’s a specification of a unitary element of an ambitious, innovative product. As an innovation leader, you want your team to write the best user stories. However, some product owners write user stories as a rigid requirement document, thus…

Pitch: Present your innovative project to executives as you would pitch a startup to investors, with +40 startup pitch decks for inspiration. — Miners find gold under a pile of dust. Some miners believe in a gold mine from the start, and others don’t see it right away. The same is true for new businesses and innovative projects. Your role as an innovation leader, product manager, or business owner is to make this…

Logo Design: a step-by-step guide and resources for innovators to create “wow” effect logos. — A logo is the first thing a customer sees when discovering a new product, service, or website. You certainly want your logo to convey critical concepts and be memorable, and it’s all the more true for an innovation project. There are three responses to a piece of design — yes…

A selection of blogs and resources I explore regularly. — The Internet is magic for several reasons. Access to an infinite number of excellent quality resources is one of them. Here are the ones that I explore periodically. Product Folks Agile Product Management Blog by Roman Pichler Ask Gib by Gibson Biddle Built for Mars by Peter Ramsey Brad Frost by Brad…

Graphic Design: A selection of graphic design resources I regularly use for my projects. — It takes little to give a zing to your innovation project materials through graphic design. Here are the resources I use. I put a 💫 next to the ones that I’ve used a lot of times and that I particularly appreciate. Images AllTheFreeStock, Burst, 💫 Freepik, Moose, 💫 Pexels, 💫 Unsplash…

Prototype Testing: A step-by-step guide to efficiently testing ideas through prototyping, with a concrete example. — Teams now understand the relevance of testing prototypes, especially for daring innovation projects. It’s pretty evident that testing a 1-week prototype and iterating with users before developing it costs a lot less than spending three months developing something and then realizing that it doesn’t meet users’ needs at the end…

My summary and notes on Stephen King’s book “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” — Companies’ creative people spend most of their time conducting post-its workshops, communicating their ideas to gain buy-in, executing project plans, and removing obstacles. But how about incredible creative people outside companies? Like artists? Specifically bestselling fiction book writers? In his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King…

Design Sprints: Resources I use to solve problems and define innovative product strategies through design sprints. — The design sprint is a methodology for solving problems. A small team clears its schedule for a week (or less) to rapidly progress from a problem to a tested solution. …