by Saeed Khan With ever increasing frequency, we hear of some site or system getting hacked. Whether it’s Google, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page , the Nasdaq, the Advanced Physics Lab [ … ]
Category: Innovation
Conway’s law and organizational design for cloud computing firms
by Prabhakar Gopalan Conway’s Law It is worth recalling Conway’s law (first published 1968) for this discussion: Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure [ … ]
Worth Repeating: Innovation Lessons from Intuit’s Scott Cook
by Saeed Khan I had a post a couple of weeks back entitled Product Management lies at the heart of Innovation. In it I discussed the differences between invention (i.e. [ … ]
You can build it, but can you market, sell and support it?
by Saeed Khan I recently received the following question from a reader – Adam Turner. He wrote: I am looking for a little guidance on this one. I have recently [ … ]
Product Management lies at the heart of Innovation
By Saeed Khan Ask 10 people for a definition of the word “innovation”, and you’re likely to get 10 different answers; maybe more depending on who you ask. Don’t believe [ … ]
Leading Product Vision
In my post, Essential Pieces for Strategic Product Leadership, I outlined four areas that are paramount for product leaders. First on my list was Product Vision and I’ll focus on that topic [ … ]
Product Management is spreading…technologists take note!
By Saeed Khan Back in 2000, before the tech bubble burst, I saw an interview with Steve Jurvetson – now a Managing Director at venture firm Draper Fischer Jurvetson. Steve [ … ]
ProductCamp: The Unconference TEDxLocal for Product Leaders?
This past weekend I attended ProductCamp Austin #6 (PCA#6). How do you describe ProductCamp Austin? Imagine a TEDxLocal for Product Leaders in an Unconference format and open to all – with [ … ]
Here’s what you said…
By Saeed Khan In December, I asked you to provide some input and help influence our content this year. There were several reasons for this, which I’ll get to shortly. [ … ]
A Product Leader’s Perspective of CES
I spent most of last week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It’s been a few years since I’ve attended, and from a product leader’s perspective, it was an opportunity to look [ … ]