What the Past Year Taught Me About Fear (and How to Overcome It)
When my partners and I launched
Vecteris a year ago, our primary purpose was to create a place where we love to work. We wanted to create an environment that inspires innovation, fosters collaboration, and welcomes diverse working styles and talents.
How Do I Get More Juice From My Customer Interviews? 5 Tips For Understanding Customer Need
Understanding our customers—or more specifically their
urgent and expensive problems
—is the key to developing a successful product. I’ve seen too many companies waste time developing a new product that no customer wants or needs. This often happens when a CEO develops a product because they have fallen in love with an idea or a technology or are trying to out-do a competitor and they don’t want to take the time to talk to any customers about what real-life problems they are solving.
5 Phases of Product Innovation & Management
Product innovation and management are key capabilities for developing successful scalable, digital products. But if you're new to product innovation and management, building the processes and competencies you need to be successful can be overwhelming. For example, should you start by improving your voice of the customer skills or Agile project management skills or product usage analytics skills or all of the above?
How Innovative is Your Organization?
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Need Your Team To Move Faster?
My recent executive conversations have a common theme - speed. Specifically, they all want their teams to move faster.
Should I Hire a Product Manager?
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How Do I Create a Culture of Innovation? Hint: It Takes More Than a Ping Pong Table
The companies I work with are usually B2B, knowledge-based companies (such as professional services firms) that are trying to develop new technology-enabled products—something outside their core product set. To do so requires them to think differently about how they work and how they create value for their customers.
It requires innovation.
The 3 Cs of Cannibalization: A Product Strategy Primer
“If I give this new product to my current sales team to sell, it might eat away my existing business.”
We hear this a lot.
We hear this a lot.
Learning To Be Great PM’s in Cincinnati
On the last day of February, Cincinnatian’s overcame freezing temperatures, grid locked traffic, and gusts of wind, hail, and snow, to attend a Women in Product Cincinnati event hosted by 84.51°, in downtown Cincinnati.
