There’s a quotation attributed to Henry Ford that is repeated (far too often I must say) in conversations about innovation and new product development. It’s not the “any colour as [ … ]
Category: Innovation
Top 7 posts from the past year
The blog turned 3 earlier this month. As a belated present, here are a few of the most popular posts from the past year. A couple are personal favourites of [ … ]
Rules and Laws Product Managers Should Understand (part 2)
Continuing from Part 1, here are more Rules and Laws to help Product Managers in their jobs. Thackara’s Laws John Thackara can best be described as a thinker, designer and [ … ]
Rules and Laws Product Managers Should Understand (part 1)
First, let me say this post was inspired by a tweet from the CrankyPM asking the following question. (click to enlarge) Now, I’m pretty certain she was looking for answers [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto 2010 roundup
It’s been about 10 days since we help ProductCamp Toronto Spring 2010. Despite being a bright sunny and unusually warm day here in Toronto, a large crowd gathered downtown to [ … ]
The secret to Apple’s success?
If there’s one company that is the envy of the high-tech community these days, it’s Apple. Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius CEO and lauded for a string of [ … ]
The Importance of Perspective
Steve Johnson has a video on his site that shows a wonderful optical illusion. I’ve embedded it here for your viewing convenience. This video is a great example of how [ … ]
Disruptive business model: Lew Cirne, serial entrepreneur on the future of Enterprise Software
Lewis Cirne (@sweetlew) believes that enterprise software needs to change, and his latest venture, New Relic, has blazed a path to do just that. DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN to the interview [ … ]
Product Management Metrics (part 2a)
My conference call on PM Metrics with Tom Grant went quite well yesterday. It was a round table discussion with good points made by several participants. While we did talk [ … ]
Crowdsourcing ideas for Canada’s future
Yesterday, I posted Canada’s Innovation Gap (part 3) where I discussed some ideas for solving the lack of innovation that exists in Canada. This weekend, the Liberal Party of Canada [ … ]