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How One Company Reduced Custom Development Work by 50% (in Less Than 9 Months)

"No."

Such a small, powerful, and, sometimes, frightening word. It's a word most of us hate to hear and that we don't say enough. “No," however, can be our sanity and productivity savior in our personal and professional lives when used well.

Four Tips for Working with a Visionary Leader

Many of the organizations we work with are founded by visionary leaders—people who can identify important customer problems and have the creative spark to deliver a successful solution to those problems.

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?

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?

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.

Productize

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How One Company Reduced Custom Development Work by 50% (in Less Than 9 Months)

Four Tips for Working with a Visionary Leader

What the Past Year Taught Me About Fear (and How to Overcome It)

How Do I Get More Juice From My Customer Interviews? 5 Tips For Understanding Customer Need

5 Phases of Product Innovation & Management

How Innovative is Your Organization?

Need Your Team To Move Faster?

Should I Hire a Product Manager?

How Do I Create a Culture of Innovation? Hint: It Takes More Than a Ping Pong Table

The 3 Cs of Cannibalization: A Product Strategy Primer