Twitter summary of ProductCamp Melbourne – October 20, 2012
Tag: Innovation
The Most Important Characteristic of Innovative Companies
by Saeed Khan Over the years I’ve working in a number of companies, and I’ve had good working relationships with people in many more. And when looking at those companies [ … ]
Worth Repeating: When Form Doesn’t Follow Function
NOTE: This post was originally published in January of 2009. It’s interesting to note that almost 2 years later, Aptera has yet to ship any vehicles to customers, and is [ … ]
Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 1)
While this post is targeted at the innovation, funding and technology issues in Canada, it may apply to other geographies as well, particularly if you don’t live/work in technology hot [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto – Oct 4, 2009
In just about 3 weeks, we’ll be hosting the 2nd ProductCamp in Toronto. Last year, at the first event, over 100 people came out to participate in a day of [ … ]
Innovation Lessons from Scott Cook
Here’s a great presentation Scott Cook (founder of Intuit) gave back in 2005 on how Intuit develops new products. Needless to say, their approach is very problem oriented, customer research [ … ]
The problem with “find an unsolved problem…”
The common wisdom for developing new products, goes something like this: Find an unsolved problem or an unmet need Identify who values that need Build a profitable solution for that [ … ]
Reorg time: Put PMs and PMMs in the same department!
Wow! At the time of writing this post, almost 80% of respondents to my poll, asking If Product Management and Product Marketing should be part of the same organization, answered [ … ]
One-hit wonders
What do Mungo Jerry, the Vapors, Chumbawamba, Gary Numan, and Norman Greenbaum all have in common? They were all musicians or groups that have the distinction of being one-hit wonders. [ … ]