Archive : Future and miscellaneous

Four roles are key to successful execution of the commercial side of product development: the Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Product Manager and Project Manager. What are the differences in these roles? What traits should you look for when hiring for them? How should you build them into your organization? Part 1 of this series looks at the key responsibilities of each of these four roles.

Thoughts and ideas combining sci-fi, Steampunk, Eric Schmidt, George Orwell, instant gratification and the overflowing email inbox…

Every organization size has its own challenges. The most challenging organization to manage are often not the largest, but instead the mid-sized.

Over the next 10 years the amount of data we capture and store will grow to over 2,400 times the total storage capacity of every human brain on Earth. If we don’t want to be overwhelmed by this, we are going to have to re-invent how we explore and analyze data.

In soccer, players “form a square” to outmaneuver an entrenched, stronger defender. This same strategy can enable small, agile challengers to form a square of market niches that enable them to outmaneuver and displace an entrenched market leader.

While being greedy can focusing you on creating value in all that you do, being “too greedy” and over-focusing on your OWN value can hurt you in business partnerships. Winning partnerships are anti-greedy.