565: AI tools to accelerate innovation and capture knowledge – with Katie Trauth Taylor, PhD
Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators · 2025-11-10 · 42 min
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How product managers use AI to boost productivity and innovation success Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, Katie Trauth Taylor, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Narratize AI, joins me to discuss how AI is transforming product innovation processes. She shares insights from working with Fortune 500 companies like NASA, Boeing, and Comcast, and dives into research showing that product and R&D teams spend up to 70% of their time on documentation and communication rather than true innovation. Katie outlines four best practices for leveraging AI, including the use of knowledge hubs, AI agents, and robust documentation processes, to unlock productivity, capture tribal knowledge, and speed up time to market by as much as 46%. The conversation also highlights the importance of storytelling in gaining buy-in for new ideas and the potential for AI to revolutionize knowledge management and portfolio intelligence. Introduction Product teams waste a lot of their time doing things that don't help get to the heart of product innovation. We need to flip the script on that so that we can be more productive with our innovation efforts.