Product Leadership Beyond the Roadmap
“Isn’t it ironic?” was the striking line of “Ironic”, the international smash hit from Canadian singer Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album Jagged Little Pill. The 90s were the height of the golden era for the music industry. Plenty of genres, new artists who strived to get from the underground or the streets and subways of Western…
Why product leaders who refuse to eat their own business model are choosing slow extinction over fast reinvention. The Thesis SaaS, as we built it for two decades, is over. Not declining – over. The per-seat pricing model that funded the entire industry is breaking in real time, and the companies that survive the next…
When AI makes the call, someone still has to own the outcome. That someone is you. There’s a version of the near AI future that product teams love to pitch: autonomous agents that handle customer interactions end-to-end, models that make real-time decisions faster and more accurately than any human could, systems that learn and adapt…
In this episode of the ORGA Consult Podcast, Christian Rieckmann and I explore one of the most underrated questions in business leadership: when does external organizational consulting actually create value – and when doesn’t it? We discuss how the needs of organizations differ fundamentally depending on their stage: the early-stage startup trying to establish structure…
“I don’t sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free, since something has to hold the engines in.” // Enzo Ferrari, Founder of Ferrari The luxury car industry has, since 2024, put together a winning streak of failed digital transformation that you couldn’t have scripted better. Jaguar deleted its brand, relaunched,…
Working with Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT is starting to feel like working with the AI we know from science fiction – and it’s reshaping what AI product leadership actually looks like in practice. Not the menacing kind – Terminator, the Matrix. Though we’d be naive to pretend that future isn’t on the table if AI…