By Saeed Khan It’s been several months since the news of Marissa Mayer’s INTERNAL memo on working from home, entitled “Physically together” became public. I had written a blog post [ … ]
Category: Strategy
Avoiding the “best of both worlds” mindset
By Joshua Duncan Take a close look at the picture to the right. It’s the 1899 Horsey Horseless, considered one of the worst cars of all time (source Time.com). Note [ … ]
Weekend read on Innovation, Marketing and Strategy
If you haven’t read Big-Bang Disruption by Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes in the latest edition of HBR, please do. In a single article, the authors have done something [ … ]
The Case Against The Traditional Business Case
By Shardul Mehta Note: This post was originally published on Shardul’s Blog, the Street Smart Product Manager. It is reprinted here with permission. Shardul also published a follow up post [ … ]
3 Ms That Are Critical for Creating High-Impact B2B Solutions
By John Mansour The three Ms for B2B solutions are analogous to the four Ps for consumer products with one key exception. The four Ps emphasize individual product success while [ … ]
Building Your Own Product – Isn’t Always the Best Strategy
By Rivi Aspler Adding a new product to your product portfolio is usually discussed whenever you want to create a product-based competitive differentiation or when you need to fill a [ … ]
Zero Based Budgeting as a Tool to Set Your Products Strategy
By Rivi Aspler Have you ever thought of taking the financial method of Zero Based Budgeting and applying it to products portfolio budgeting decisions? Privileged with the opportunity to rethink [ … ]
Product Strategy in Light of the Sunk Cost Dilemma
By Rivi Aspler Wikipedia defines a sunk cost dilemma as: a dilemma of having to choose between continuing a project of uncertain prospects already involving considerable sunk costs, or discontinuing [ … ]
Managing People vs. Managing Technology
By Fred Engel A company wanting to succeed in the marketplace needs to have strong product strategy as well as a strong engineering organization capable of executing that strategy. In [ … ]
How to Unify Multiple Product Strategies into a Single Overall Strategy
By John Mansour When you’re a one product company, a product strategy is invaluable because the product and the company are one and the same. But when you have 5 [ … ]