Good ideas, and how to turn good ideas into great products
From the new Lateral Action blog comes “Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of Innovation“. Brian Clark says:
So why do we find it so hard to break out of our rut and do truly innovative things?
Because it’s hard. Because it often requires us to significantly alter our perspectives and step outside of our comfort zones.
He then points [...]
This post started as a comment on the Cranky Product Manager’s blog, responding to her post on agile methodologies. She said
Yes, Agile can speed up the development and improve the quality of small features. But it’s too often at the expense of the Big Important Work — the heavy lifting, multi-month market analysis and architectural [...]
A few weeks ago I started a new blog focused on green energy topics. It’s called “Keeping The Lights On.” In particular I’m interested in showing how the transition to green energy is not just going to help us prevent the end of civilization (gloom and doom much?) but also be profitable into the bargain. [...]
Peter Abilla had a great quote in his post On Customer Obsession:
People remember experiences. They don’t remember attributes or benefits or features.
The quote is from A.G. Lafley, CEO of Procter and Gamble, in the January 28, 2005 Business Week.
It’s something I struggle with often as a product manager. Like most product managers, I’m technical, so [...]
An amazing set of pictures from this year’s Tour de France. 2008 Tour de France – The Big Picture – Boston.com
