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Personas Make Blue Ocean Strategy Proactive

Posted on: April 29, 2009April 29, 2009

Blue Ocean Strategy provides an interesting reactive analysis of companies and markets. Personas are used to understand your customer’s needs. Combining the two provides powerful proactive insights when positioning your product for market success.

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements

You Must Not Write “The System Shall…”

Posted on: April 22, 2009

A lot of books and blogs and experts tell us to use “The System shall…” when writing requirements. Read on to find out why that’s not a very good idea.

Marketing / Product Management

Measuring Market Concentration (Competition)

Posted on: April 13, 2009

Is your market competitive, or concentrated? What’s the difference, and how can you be objective about it and not just subjective? The United States government uses a measure called HHI – the Herfindal-Hirschman Index – as an objective measure of how competitive a market is. They use this measure to […]

Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Requirements / ROI

Product Growth Strategy

Posted on: April 1, 2009

Growth is a make or break measurement for products and companies. Investment is often determined by expected value, which is based (in part) on expectations of growth. When you create a product, there are aspects of growth – how many people can use your product, and how many people do […]

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