Product Management and Innovation

Product Management and Innovation

Creating products that customers love requires a deep understanding of customer needs, focus on product development, and continuous measurement of the outcomes delivered.

Created by:

Valerio Zanini

Valerio Zanini

Author of Deliver Great
Products that Customers Love
Co-Founder, Spark Engine Product Innovation Training
Certified Scrum Trainer

Zeina Zeitouni

Zeina Zeitouni

Co-Founder of Spark Engine
Certified Product Innovation Trainer

See how you compare

Assess your practices and competencies in product management and innovation

From individual product managers to entire product teams, understand your strengths and identify key areas of improvement. By looking across the five dimensions of great products, we make it easy to get the right insights and guide your team to success.

Accelerate product innovation in your organization

Product Management is today one of the most important yet challenging roles in any organization focused on innovation. This role is responsible for understanding opportunities and customer needs, driving product development, launching the product in market, and measuring value delivered.

By tapping into principles of Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Innovation frameworks, this assessment provides insights across the five dimensions of great products.

From the results, you identify areas of improvement and action items that drive skill development, culture change, and improved outcomes. Used by individual product managers and entire product teams, this assessment guides you on focusing on specific product innovation areas such as: effective product backlog management, customer feedback and validation, rapid development of MVPs, measurement of outcomes, release and roadmap planning, and growing a culture of empowerment.

The Spark Engine Product Innovation Training program supplements the assessment by offering product teams the opportunity to learn and apply new practices that drive product innovation.

Sample Questions

Design

I make product decisions from an understanding of user needs and pain points.

Discover

I know how to identify market opportunities in my problem space

Enabling Environment

I have access to end users and customers for discovery of needs, validation of ideas, and feedback on products.

Deliver

I define and track key success metrics to understand the product's performance and its outcomes.

Drive

I know how to create a strategic roadmap that aligns to stakeholder and customer value.

Deliver

I understand how to develop a Go-to-Market strategy for my product, with clear target segments, pricing, distribution, channels, etc

Top Features

  • Leverage proven, peer-reviewed research to quickly identify where your organization needs attention to improve performance.

  • Build a baseline and continue to measure progress towards your product innovation journey.

  • Gain insights at all levels - perform analysis at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

  • Benchmark the level of readiness across your teams and organization against other organizations in your industry - and define concrete steps on what to do next.

Valerio Zanini

Valerio Zanini

Co-Founder, Spark Engine Product Innovation Training
Certified Scrum Trainer

Zeina Zeitouni

Zeina Zeitouni

Co-Founder of Spark Engine
Certified Product Innovation Trainer

Valerio Zanini

A product innovator and digital leader, Valerio Zanini is passionate about creating products that customers love and developing the teams that make them a reality. With two decades of product development experience in a variety of organizations including Capital One, Cisco, Goozex.com and others, he excels at building new products in the early stages of product innovation, where uncertainty and lack of a clear solution are the biggest challenges. He works with organizations worldwide to spark a culture of innovation and agility.

He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), and a Certified Product Innovation Trainer (CPIT).

He is the author of Deliver Great Products That Customers Love and the founder of Spark Engine, a training and certification program in Product Innovation.

Zeina Zeitouni

PRODUCT STRATEGIST, SERVICE DESIGNER

Zeina Zeitouni is a Digital Innovation Consultant helping companies of all sizes bring new ideas to life. She is a Design Strategist and Product Management leader with over 10 years of experience running digital innovation strategy in both startup and Fortune 500 environments. She is a certified Spark Engine CPIT (Certified Product Innovation Trainer).

Previously, at Capital One Bank and through fintech ventures, Zeina helped drive digital innovation launching brand-defining experiences in both retail and commercial banking. She is acknowledged for infusing innovation practices into the organization as a Design Thinking Coach and developing a seminar series on applying Design Thinking and Data Science to solve complex problems within large organizations, which she presented at Columbia University.

Zeina has experience structuring product teams and developing new products and services across various industries and environments including investment management, retail, staffing, real estate, and international development programs in post-conflict countries.

Zeina has a passion for Impact Innovation and has designed and launched various socially responsible and impact investing applications. She is originally from Los Angeles and currently resides in Manhattan.

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Deliver Great Products That Customers Love

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