Fostering Innovation Through Dedicated Discovery Time

Today's episode is with my friend Frederik Hansen - CPO at Ignite.

Ignite is a leading sustainable procurement platform that enables companies to take control of their purchasing from suppliers, comply with regulations, and reduce costs, emissions, and risks - all in one place.

Before Ignite, Frederik was CPO at Bookis.

He is also the co-founder of Produktleder.no - the largest community for product managers in Norway - and a co-organizer of the ProductTank in Oslo. A true contributor to the product community in Norway.

In this conversation, Frederik and I discussed:

* Starting a CPO role with a 1-month grace period

* Healthy principles in strong product teams

* Cross-functional collaboration in practice

* Making time for discovery at Ignite

* Creating an environment for product teams to thrive

* Examples from Frederik’s journey on how to test ideas fast using different techniques

* What Frederik looks for in a PM (traits)

* And more

Enjoy :)

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