Kandis O'Brien - Redesign Your Organization for Innovation

Kandis O’Brien the co-founder of The SIX, a strategy and innovation consultancy that empowers enterprise clients like Google, Salesforce and Cisco and pioneering startups like Alucio to ideate, collaborate and execute quickly and efficiently for sustainable growth. Kandis is passionate about helping organizations build better products, services and organizational cultures. She helps to leverage human-centred approaches including Design and Vision Sprints. She is also the organizer of Design Sprint NY City, the official Google Design Sprints Global Chapter community for practitioners and facilitators. Show Notes: How is Kandis O’Brien dealing with the Covid’ pandemic impact on work and routine - [1:30] Work- Life Balance? Absolutely not! But people have found ways to be kind to each other and to be more flexible about schedules and interruptions - [5:05] Running the NY City Marathon- [6:56] What led Kandis to enter the world of Product Management? From Marketing to Product - [7:54] Kandis Experience in her company The SIX - [10:55] What have you learned about your leadership style – strengths or weaknesses – and how do you use those insights to be better? - [13:40] What is the most common problem, you see on a daily basis? - [16:00] Customer and market insights to make strategic decisions - [18:54] What MVP is going to allow you to deliver value quickly, to test your assumptions and to gain directional Insight? - [21:17] Difference between B2B Products and B2C Products - [23:33] Designing digital products vs physical products - [28:00] Redesign Your Organization for Innovation - [31:59] Kandis Bucket List - [36:00] Q&A: How does Design Thinking and Sprints help build scalable Products? Do these techniques apply to Platform Products? - [37:17]