Creating Product Roadmaps
Innovators and product managers are familiar with quotes about knowing where you are going, such as… If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you…
Making innovation a habit – the birth of the creative leader
“The traditional way we’ve thought about leadership—which I would describe as leading from the front, this idea that someone is at the top making all of the decisions—is not…
Joint-Venture Road Map for the Little(r) Guy
Bottom Line: International partnerships can put parties at odds, but there are ways for smaller firms to avoid common conflicts and stick up for themselves. International joint ventures (IJVs) have…
2017 IT Budgets: One-Third Goes To Cloud, Hosting Services
IT professionals and CIOs plan to spend slightly more than a third of their total IT budgets on cloud and hosting services in 2017, according to survey results from…
RightScale: Cloud Customers Overspend On Services
In a new study of its cloud computing customers over a three-month period, RightScale found that many are passing up savings, and that overprovisioning resources is still widespread. On…
6 Infallible Sales Strategies for Beating Even the Toughest Competition
No matter how much you try to shield yourself, you’ll always be faced with someone who will challenge your products or services. In order to beat the toughest competitors,…
Business Beyond Brexit
The election of Donald Trump shocked many observers, but those of us watching from the United Kingdom had a distinct sense of déjà vu. In June, when U.K. residents…
3 Ways to Redesign Your Product and Spark a Price Revolution
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. With price-simplifying, price is the strategy. Everything else is tactics — the means to arrive at the target…
What DevOps Can Teach IT About Change Management
Even if your shop hasn’t embraced DevOps and has no plans to do so, the practice offers leadership and communication guidance applicable to nearly every facet of IT. Here’s…
A Tale of Two Cities
Consider this story of two U.S. metropolises. On the one hand, there’s Detroit: a sad sack of the industrial Midwest, a few years removed from bankruptcy, hollowed out and struggling…
Samsung’s $8 Billion Harman Deal Drives New Era For IT Pros
As connected cars become more commonplace, IT professionals need to consider how employees are using these software-platforms-on-wheels to access and share work-related information. Samsung’s announcement that it would acquire…
5 Reasons You Should Let Others Make Your Decisions
Have you ever sat, staring at a blank email, trying to figure out what to say and how to say it? Have you rehearsed a conversation over and over in…
Multi-Target Look at Social Media and Open Innovation
Given social media’s incredible reach and the potential for new and even more amazing platforms to quickly evolve, companies must begin to figure out how to leverage this tremendous power.…
Innovation Mantras from R&D
by Chad McAllister Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an RD person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who…
The New Game of Global Tech
What’s going on in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry? Companies that used to thrive with clearly defined product portfolios are entering one another’s businesses. Erstwhile hardware companies…
4 Ways to Help Your Team Weather the Startup Storm
You’ve heard it many times before – “Startups are hard.” There are numerous ups and downs along the path. Customer wins and customer losses are just part of the game.…
Innovation mantras from R&D
Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an RD person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who has 30…
The Benefits of Buying a ‘Boring’ Businesses Instead of Seeking the Next Big Thing
Every day the headlines are filled with stories about the gold rush to find the hottest new startup. Ambitious young companies vying to be the next Uber or Facebook fill…
101 Efficiency Hacks for Busy Entrepreneurs
Sometimes, it just seems like we have far more tasks on our to-do lists than we can reasonably accomplish. That’s why I’ve compiled this giant list of “efficiency hacks” busy…
Innovation Mandates from the Trump Administration
Transitions between presidential administrations, whether within party or across parties, bring significant disruption to the Federal government, but can also create opportunities. New administrations bring changing policies, priorities, and leadership,…