I recently had a request asking for help to design a win/loss analysis interview. As this topic has general applicability across industries, I thought I’d share some of that exchange [ … ]
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Guest Post: What can Tacos Teach Product Managers about Social Product Development?
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Catherine Constantinides. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. — Tweet this: What can Tacos [ … ]
Art education: The unmet need of product managers
Tweet: Art education: The unmet need of product managers http://wp.me/pXBON-2Ng @PGopalan #prodmgmt Today, I am going to discuss about the unmet need of product managers – art education. Before a [ … ]
On PowerPoint
I just got back from vmworld 2011 in Vegas. Sustaining interest in speaker sessions at technology conferences is a challenge for most people. As soon as the slides start rolling, [ … ]
5 ways to truly ‘delight customers’
Hardly a week goes by without seeing an article or opinion piece about how important it is to ‘delight customers’. And companies like Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines and Zappos are [ … ]
Change Your Words
Try this exercise. Go to your marketing collateral closet and pull a sales packet of information out. These are the same data/sell sheets, white papers and pretty pictures that you [ … ]
Strategy, Innovation and the Need for Experiments
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 [ … ]
Open Question: Your worst job-related mistake and lesson learned
Here’s another question for you. We all like to share don’t we? 🙂 So, let’s open up a bit and share some lessons learned with each other. We all make [ … ]
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 [ … ]