Thanks everyone for the great conversation in the most recent #prodmgmttalk chat session! This week, Roger Cauvin inspired us to think about product managers as innovators – or enablers of innovation. Each week, I find myself thinking about at least one of the #prodmgmttalk questions long after the hour is over. This week’s thought – organizations prevent product managers from innovating.
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Innovation and Transparency
Accept has invited me to participate in their webinar series on Transparency and Innovation – this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 (10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern).
Join us and join in!
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Posted in Product Management
Tagged innovation, innovation and transparency, market insight, product managers, transparency
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The One Idea of Your Product
“For what one idea do you want your product to stand in the mind of your customer?” I heard Roger Cauvin ask that question at the most recent ProductCamp Austin [correction - he said it here - thanks Roger], and the quote has been jumping to the front of my mind almost daily ever since. Maybe by writing about it I can exorcise the demon and get back to using the idea instead of being haunted by it.
Keeping up With Change
How quickly is your market changing? Bet it’s faster than you thought.
Posted in Product Management
Tagged changing markets, distinctive competence, innovation, market domination
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How To Not Suck At Design
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How To Apply Market Research Better
Mike Mace provides us with some great insight about market research – helping us to avoid ‘the blender’ and ‘the gap’. The gap is a reflection of the inability of most customers to innovate. The blender is the loss of useful market information into a homogenized input that pushes only the lowest common denominator – again stifling innovation. We have to avoid the blender and the gap to get useful data from our research.
Posted in Interaction design, Marketing, Product Management
Tagged blackberry, innovation, managing data, market segmentation, persona, trio
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