by Saeed Khan There’s an adage that states, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. And if that is the case, then you have to wonder how much actual management [ … ]
Category: Innovation
Why customer needs don’t always matter
by Saeed Khan There’s a great presentation by Brainmates entitled What is Product Management? In it, they say the following: Product Managers spend time understanding what customers need and want…then [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Devil’s Dictionary for High Tech
by Saeed Khan The Devil’s dictionary is a book created in the early 20th century by American Ambrose Bierce containing sarcastic, ironic and witty re-definitions of words. e.g PAINTING, n. [ … ]
Uncovering the Social Animal in Product Management
Over the years, I’ve watched the social interaction of individuals and teams and how they succeed and where they struggle. Whether you’re a product manager, product marketing manager or you [ … ]
Why Disruption is Driving the Need for Elegant Products
by Saeed Khan Last week I wrote a post called The Need for Elegance in Product Design. In it I said that calling something elegant is high praise, and although [ … ]
How to dominate your competition – learn from Apple
by Saeed Khan Did you notice what Apple did this past week? Yes, they announced the iPad 2, but it’s worth taking a look at the details of the announcement [ … ]
Customers – How to Work with Product Management and Influence our Product Direction
by Saeed Khan This is an open letter to B2B (enterprise software) customers, though much of the following also applies to customers of other types of products. Do you want [ … ]
The Need for Elegance in Product Design
by Saeed Khan When I was in university, my major was Physics, and for whatever crazy reason I took a number of Computer Science and Applied Math courses as electives. [ … ]
Worth Repeating: How to be a GREAT Product Manager
by Saeed Khan Back in 2007, just a couple of months after we started this blog, I wrote a series of 6 articles under the banner: How to be a [ … ]
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 [ … ]