The Grand Adventure
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] One of the benefits of going to a top school is having very talented professors. The best have a way of describing a concept so simply and “matter of factly” that it sticks with you forever. When I attended Emory’s Goizueta school, one of those professors was Dr. […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I just got through with a very aggravating experience trying to book a rental car from Hertz. I’m joining a few fellow Beechcraft Bonanza pilots in Florida in a few weeks to practice formation flying. Every year we practice taking off, flying, and landing in close formation, in […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] When I worked in IBM Marketing, we ran quarterly pulses on the market to ensure that our offerings were still relevant and on-point with our customers, partners and competitors. I’ve worked with companies that also do this to varying degrees, though not as masterfully. One report in particular […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In Part 3 of this series, I’d like to cover the world outside of your company. In order to be an innovative company, you must be able to constantly monitor the trends affecting your customers, your competitors, your supply chain, your economic environment, in essence, your whole ecosystem. […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I read an article today targeted at the ecosystem of the automobile supply chain. At the heart of the article was the notion of examining a company’s products through the lens of the Product Portfolio Matrix, a concept created by Bruce Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group. This […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I was surprised to find out that open-source software goes back all the way to the 1950s and 1960s. I think most people think of Linux when they think of open-source. Linus Torvalds made a big splash when he released Linux in 1991, and in my opinion marks […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I am amazed at what we are technically capable of given the last short decade of advancement. The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and created a whole new capability that has been widely copied by Android and to a lesser extent, Microsoft. Computing power was unleashed from the […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I attended a local social session recently on the topic of Retail, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Mobility. IoT First, what the heck is the “Internet of Things”? It’s such a high level term, no doubt introduced as a buzzword to make what’s old new again. I […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] To think that Musk is only in it to build a car business is short-sighted. Yes, it is amazing that Tesla has generated over 400,000 pre-orders for the Model 3, and I think even the expectations within Tesla have been greatly exceeded. There is obvious pent-up demand and […]
[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 […]