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You Need To Experiment Like Crazy To Innovate
Your innovation laboratories’ existential question: which concept has the potential to be worth a billion dollars? After implementing an innovation program, the most significant challenge that I’ve seen businesses face, in my…
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How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here in Silicon Valley. I was there with…
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Everything Is In Flux
During the time that I’ve managed projects, as we got through the process of implementing any kind of program, whether it’s a software implementation, and innovation architecture, or software development, most project…
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How To Leverage Mimetic Theory For Product Innovation
What Is Mimetic Theory I lightly covered mimetic theory in previous posts, a theory of human behavior posited by French philosopher Rene Girard. In short, the theory suggests that all conflict is…
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Time And Money: Every Second Adds Up
Typically, I write on innovation, startups, and the future, but today’s let’s talk a little about productivity. Right before the pandemic, I thought I was going to do a lot of traveling…
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The Product Manager’s Guide to the Product Lifecycle: A Simple Overview.
The product lifecycle is one of the most important concepts for any product manager. The stages in the process, such as identifying opportunities and defining requirements, are vital to ensuring that you…
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11 Ways To Integrate Innovation Into Product Management
So, you’re an innovator? A product manager needs to create something new and better than what’s out there already. Maybe your company needs to innovate to stay competitive or maintain its lead.…
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In A Complex World, Humans Are Slaves To The Exact
Do you know what product managers do? Do you know what startup founders do? In my view, the skill set for each of the above is pretty much the same. Product managers…
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The Dangerous And Radical And Disruptive Are Squashed
You are an innovator – and you are proud to be an innovator. You pride yourself on listening to your customer’s desires and building products which do just that. The only problem…
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Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations Redux
If you don’t already know, I’m a huge Star Trek fan – I love all of the shows from the beginning. Not so much the recent TV series, as I feel that…
