A blog about the philosophy of technology
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What is a successful product?
Every company wants to be a success. One key ingredient in that is successful products. A successful product will look different to different companies, but usually it can be tracked by KPIs. For any business it is very important to find the right KPI and be wary of so called vanity metrics. What’s your “On…
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The dark side of addictive products
Are products such as Facebook, Snapchat and Flappy birds just benign habits or are they crack grade maliscious addictions? When does product “stickiness” turn from a simple habit into an actual addiction? As anyone my age growing up, Star Wars was a huge influence on my world view. I was againstof the dark side and…
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Product Roadmaps – Comet Landings or Soccer Games?
A product roadmap is a plan, but a plan can be many things. At one extreme you have the kind of planning that just brought Philae to the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk where everything is calculated down to the smallest detail. At the other end is the plan for a soccer game, where you may not even…
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How to manage a globally distributed product team
Building a product alone is difficult. Building it with a team is harder, but building it with a distributed team is even harder. Still, today it is rare that any company is building any product with a 100% local, in-sourced on site team. That is why one key ability in building a succesful product is…
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Is Microsoft the new IBM? a tale of two pivots
Microsoft and the advent of the PC caused the hardware giant IBM to pivot away from their original core business, hardware, to professional services. Now Microsoft itself is forced to pivot because its core business is being disrupted: it used to be consumer oriented software, but that game is now lost to Apple and Google.…
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Experimentation in product management
Traditionally new products were developed according to the founder’s idea that was written down, which the engineers built. The last few years this pattern has changed. Across the internet there has been a shift in mindset to bring the customer into what we are building. There is a growing awareness that we are wrong about…
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Big Data From a Product Perspective – Different Views
The hype surrounding big data at the moment is reaching a climax. While it is evident that we have more and more data and that there are valuable insights hidden, the situation is different if we look at big data as the products that are actually offered. If we look at big data from a product…
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Is Google Glass the Next Segway and What Can We Learn From It?
About a decade ago one of the most hyped products in Tech was the Segway. It promised to revolutionize public transportation. The hype was almost hysterical. It was impossible to get your hands on one, unless you were especially favored and it was overprized. The hype for google glass is similar today, only a select…
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What product development strategy is right for your start up?
There are two primary product development strategies and multiple ways of executing them, but there is only one that is right for your company. Finding that strategy and understanding the dynamics may be the difference between success and failure. It may also revert your perception of whether you are doing well. Nicholas Nassim Taleb has…
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Why You Shouldn’t Try to be Like Steve Jobs or Wonder What Google Would Do
There is no end to the inspiration that the most hyped tech giants inspire. Books like “What would google do”, films like “The Social Network” and hundreds of daily blog posts and articles chronicle the amazing exploits of some of the world’s most successful companies. Never the less, you are better off ignoring everything they did…
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