The Grand Adventure
“Mark’s Key Three” When you ask most leaders how healthy their organizations are, they will list a few known areas and then list a handful of risk mitigations they have put in place to handle the known areas. If you ask them how they feel about the pace of innovation, they will likely tell you […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I run a lot. I enjoy running and I’ve been a runner almost all my life. My current goal is to get back to my high school weight and beat the 10K time I posted in middle school. Ultimately, I want to be healthy, happy, energetic and retain […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I’ve always thought of product management and product market management as as superset of project management. I believe it is one of the foundational skills of a competent product manager. There is a direct correlation of risk reduction to the organization by the increased project management skill level of […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Every company eventually gets to the point where they need to replace an aging software system. The old system is showing it’s age due to lack of vendor support, lack of functionality, angry users, etc. For whatever reason, it’s time to shed the old and go shopping. Before […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I was recently talking with some thought leaders on the subject of increased value to customers as a result of a merger. The general consensus was that mergers are usually great for Wall Street, but maybe not so great for the combined customer base and usually presented problems […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The Wall Street Journal posted an article recently on Kashi, a Kellogg company, that triggered thoughts on many levels. Let’s look at a quick timeline and some statistics. Kashi was founded in 1984 in California to pursue healthy minded consumers. These consumers could arguably be described as smart, […]
I just read an interesting article in Flying magazine that looks at the art of flying through the lens of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. The article is titled What Makes an Expert? by Jay Hopkins. The point of the article is that just because you have 10,000 hours of experience, does that really make you […]