Category: Product Management
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App review: OpenTable
“The UK’s number one restaurant booking website” is what it says on OpenTable’s homepage. One of the reasons why I was keen to find out more about OpenTable is the fact that it serves two types of customers since its connects restaurateurs with customers. This is a similar mechanism which Carwow specialises in, a website which…
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Some dos and don’ts for product managers
Do you ever wonder what to do when you start a new job!? How do you get a good sense of what’s going on and when can you start making some sort of an impact? Ken Norton, Product Partner at Google Ventures, has written a great article which offers practical tips to product managers on things they do…
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Product management at Amazon – What is it like?
Since reading the well known answer on Quora about Amazon’s approach to product development and product management by Ian McAllister I’ve been intrigued about Amazon and its product management function. In his Quora answer, McAllister – General Manager for AmazonSmile explains about Amazon’s approach called “working backwards”. I guess most non-Amazon product people are familiar with the internal press releases that Amazon product people…
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Julia Shalet explains about user research
Last night, I attended another great class at the Mobile Academy. Julia Shalet, Course Director at the Mobile Academy, talked about how one can do user research (and do it well). Julia started by stressing the importance of choosing the right research method to suit the corroboration of one’s assumptions. She talked about the difference…
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EDITD and applying big data analytics to the fashion industry
Since I went to a talk about visual search of fashion products, I’ve been keen to find out more about how the fashion industry uses big data analytics to make product decisions. I then came across EDITD, which is a real-time fashion analytics company based in London. Given my passion for both fashion and data,…
