Digital Transformation: Beyond the Buzzword
Digital Transformation: Beyond the Buzzword
Everyone talks about digital transformation. Few define it clearly. After years of driving transformation initiatives across enterprise environments, I've developed a simpler view: it's about building systems that keep evolving.
Long-Term Impact Over MVP Wins
The pressure in product management is to ship. Launch the feature. Hit the milestone. Celebrate the release.
But I've learned to focus on something different: delivering long-term impact, not just MVP wins.
This means:
Compliance as Opportunity
In regulated industries like security tech, compliance is often seen as a blocker. I've found it can be a differentiator.
When you align compliance with user experience, you create products that competitors can't easily copy. The regulatory barrier becomes a competitive moat.
The key is involving compliance thinking early in the product development cycle, not bolting it on at the end.
Scalable Internal Tooling
Some of the most impactful product work I've done isn't customer-facing. It's internal tooling.
When your team has better tools:
The Evolution Mindset
Digital transformation isn't a project with an end date. It's an orientation toward continuous improvement.
The systems I build are designed to evolve:
Moving Fast Without Losing the Thread
As both a product operator and founder, I've learned how to move fast. But speed without direction is just chaos.
The human thread — understanding what people actually need and how they actually behave — keeps fast movement purposeful.
That's the balance: agility in execution, clarity in direction.

Edward skipped presentations and built real AI products.
Edward Jou was part of the November 2025 cohort at Curious PM, alongside 20 other talented participants.
