By Prabhakar Gopalan Something very fundamental is broken in large corporations. The ability and spirit to experiment as a corporate function. Managers are: chasing short term results that improve existing [ … ]
Category: Innovation
The Fine Line Between Strategy and Fantasy
A favourite topic of many entrepreneurs, product managers, marketers and executives is strategy. You hear it all the time. People talking about company strategy, product strategy, marketing strategy, sales strategy [ … ]
Google, Motorola and the IP Stupidity
by Prabhakar Gopalan Tweet this: @PGopalan: #Google, #Motorola and the IP Stupidity http://wp.me/pXBON-2PV #patent click here While the pundits will debate about why Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5B, a 63% premium over [ … ]
The Product Management Retrospective
You’ve just introduced your latest product release, introduced a new product or capability or launched the product. Now What? What about a retrospective? While product management and product marketing professionals [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Do Product Managers need Domain Knowledge?
Here’s an oldie, but a real goody. Back in 2007, I posted this piece about the problems that occur when Product Managers (and thus companies) don’t have proper domain knowledge. [ … ]
Innovation and execution are not mutually exclusive
by Prabhakar Gopalan Tweet this: @PGopalan: Innovation and execution are not mutually exclusive http://wp.me/pXBON-2D1 #prodmgt #career Last week I got an email from a friend that his firm was going through an innovation crisis. [ … ]
Guest Post: Voice of the Market vs. Voice of the Customer
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Jennifer Doctor. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. During a recent whirlwind #prodmgmttalk discussion [ … ]
Product Metrics for Product Success
by Saeed Khan Last week, I discussed Go-to-Market and Organizational Metrics. This week I’m going to discuss Product metrics. And while the title of this post sounds somewhat repetitive, as [ … ]
Product Management: Beware of Flying Monkeys
In 2009, while guest posting on Lead on Purpose, I recalled a story about “Flying Monkeys.” You know, the unsolicited requests that usually surface from different areas of your organization, usually [ … ]