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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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How to Succeed with AI in 2025

Piyanka Jain

And not because AI itself is broken, but because companies keep treating it like a science project instead of a tool that actually needs to solve problems. Think AI-powered chatbots that frustrate customers more than theyhelp. If AI isnt solving an immediate pain point, employees will ignore it.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. We’ll dig into the tools in a moment, but first, let’s get to know David and Trevor.

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Importance of Customer Segmentation when Building New Products

The Product Guy

There is no such thing as placing too much importance on your customers. Customers are the oxygen for any business model. One of the primary goals of any business strategy is to identify and meet needs of the customer. Customers differ widely from each other in various aspects. Collecting the data from various sources.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? How do product managers instill this knowledge of the customer across the rest of the organization?

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How to Identify Customer Pain Points and Adress Them to Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

Understanding how to identify customer pain points and struggles is the cornerstone of creating a painless customer experience and a loyal customer base. The reason is simple – struggling customers hold the key to sustained product growth. There are different types of pain points.

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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. It’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

There are various frameworks and tools that are designed to help product management teams understand what to build, but somehow teams are still shipping products that don’t gain traction. Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation.