By John Mansour “We’ve created an innovation team.” Oh, great! Just what every product manager needs – more shiny new objects competing for the same resources that should be going [ … ]
Category: Innovation
Avoiding the “best of both worlds” mindset
By Joshua Duncan Take a close look at the picture to the right. It’s the 1899 Horsey Horseless, considered one of the worst cars of all time (source Time.com). Note [ … ]
How to increase your chances of getting your product idea funded
By Rivi Aspler There are many product-oriented checklists that one can find over the web. Product groups can easily check their readiness to various types of targets, whether its design, development, [ … ]
Weekend read on Innovation, Marketing and Strategy
If you haven’t read Big-Bang Disruption by Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes in the latest edition of HBR, please do. In a single article, the authors have done something [ … ]
The New RIM – Relaunching a Former Industry Juggernaut
by Saeed Khan Back in May 2011, I wrote the following post: Addressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet. As the news of RIM’s [ … ]
Do you really understand the true benefits your product delivers?
By Saeed Khan At the most fundamental level, virtually everything we do is driven by some very fundamental needs: we want to remove what pains us or increase what makes [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Go to school, get an education, create a job
By Saeed Khan Back in 2009, as the economic downturn was digging in, I wrote the following piece. People were getting laid off in droves and having to search for [ … ]
The Best (and Worst) Innovations You Saw This Year
by Saeed Khan The year is almost over and it’s time to start thinking about year-end lists. There will be lots to choose from, but how many of them ask [ … ]
The Difference Between Good and Great Solutions – “What-if” Scenarios
By John Mansour There are plenty of good B2B solutions in the market, but as a percentage there are only a few great ones. What’s the difference between the two? [ … ]
How to Unify Multiple Product Strategies into a Single Overall Strategy
By John Mansour When you’re a one product company, a product strategy is invaluable because the product and the company are one and the same. But when you have 5 [ … ]