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Tom-Tom Erik Isaksen - Disrupt Yourself or Die

BY Shubham Bhattacharya on February 12, 2018

Tom-Tom Erik Isaksen is the head of product, Norway, at Telia, a telecom service provider. He leads a department called Division X at Telia which creates next-generation concepts that are validated and adopted into the business lines. Speaking at Product Tank Oslo, he starts off saying: “Division X is building a whole new product in the engineering Read more »

Bringing Virtual Reality Into the Open

BY Tremis Skeete on September 26, 2017

Many people do not believe that virtual reality (VR) is the future, and think that we will soon simply grow tired of our latest “novelty” or “toy” technology. Roy Peer, however, disagrees. In his presentation at ProductTank NYC, Roy Peer opens his presentation by referencing a common question in the industry: whether or not VR Read more »

Daniella Patrick - Innovation Lab Product Development

BY Tremis Skeete on August 1, 2017

Daniella Patrick is an Innovation Lab Product Manager at Accenture, which is one of the largest global consulting firms in the world, with clients and partners like Microsoft, GE, HP, and IBM. Accenture now has over 400k people employed, and offices in over 200 cities across 55 countries. Daniella’s educational background is in mechanical engineering and Read more »

Design Disruptors (ProductTank NYC)

BY Tremis Skeete on February 23, 2017

Design Disruptors was released by InVision in 2016. The film was created to highlight some of the world’s most influential companies that are putting user centered design first, transforming the way users do everything from hailing a cab or using social media, to banking online, and finding new music. In January 2017 ProductTank NYC in collaboration Read more »

Fintech and Shotguns

BY Chris Massey on October 13, 2016

In this talk from ProductTank London, Scott Eblen (previously Chief Product Officer at Nutmeg) shares some key lessons about product development in Fintech, and uses an interesting analogy to reframe the experience of product development in the Fintech world: manufacturing lead shot. Be Ready To Ignore Tradition In this case, there are actually two traditions that Scot Read more »

Marketplace Banking - the "Uber-isation" of Financial Services

BY Chris Massey on August 18, 2016

At ProductTank London, Tracy Abraham asked whether Finance will be the “final frontier” when it comes to disruption of our digital lives, given how heavily regulated and intense private our financial lives tend to be. Specifically, she explored the ways in which fintech startups are taking on the establishment, putting customers and tech ahead of bureaucracy and Read more »

Tips and Tools for Building Next-Generation Products

BY Lorian Leong on July 18, 2016

Espen Sundve, VP of Next Generation Publishing at Schibsted, and Matt Galligan talk about working with Destination Next, their innovation publishing product as they navigate through rapidly changing markets. How do you test and react quickly? What environments do you need? How do you foster those environments? Know your “Why?” Get an understanding of what Read more »

Video: Lean Product Development

BY Martin Eriksson on January 14, 2014

Is your product disruptive or sustaining? There’s nothing wrong with being sustaining by the way – a disruptive company that is successful quickly becomes a sustaining company. The important thing is to understand where on this spectrum you lie because both need to think differently when it comes to everything from marketing to how to Read more »