Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, is getting clobbered as their market rapidly moves away from them. Â Recent analyst reports show that Android and iOS (Apple’s platform) based phones are rapidly gaining market share. Â Nokia sells neither. Â Nokia has a major press event in a few hours, where they will announce their smartphone strategy. Â I think a maximin strategy is both likely and correct.
Monthly Archives: February 2011

Market Insights and Collaboration
In this week’s #ProdMgmtTalk, one of the livelier discussion topics was around gaining insights into your market – and what does that mean (to you)? Steven Haines was the speaker for this session who prompted us to think, and pushed us to rethink our views on market insights. Â What a great example of collaboration among product managers!

Everything Old is New Again
A lot of teams that I’ve worked on and with get hung up when thinking about defining requirements for “migration projects” and “system upgrades.” Â There’s some intangible barrier to being market focused when it comes to improving existing internal systems. Â Every new product represents a solution to an existing problem. Â Why do so many projects move forward with teams that are blind to the actual requirements?


