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My Product Management toolkit (12): My 90 Day Plan as a Product Person
Soon I’ll be starting a new role as a Head of Product at a great FinTech business in London. I’m very excited about the role. There’s a lot of opportunity to make an impact and influence change. But where do I start? How do I prioritise change? These questions prompted me to start thinking about…
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“Mobilized” (Book Review)
I recently read “Mobilized” by SC Moatti, “an insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology.” SC Moatti is a mobile veteran from Silicon Valley, having developed successful mobile products and services at the likes of Nokia, Facebook and Trulia. Moatti makes the book’s intentions clear in the first chapter: with businesses increasingly shifting their strategic…
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My Product Management Toolkit (11): Assessing the Market
As a product person it’s extremely important to keep a finger on the market pulse at all times. It can be very easy to get locked into a tunnel vision where you’re so focused on developing your product that you loose sight of market needs or what your competition are doing. Let’s be clear: this…
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My Product Management Toolkit (10): Jobs-To-Be-Done
How does one combat what I call ‘featuritis’? This innate need among most of us to come up with new features or projects all the time without taking a step back to figure out the customer problem worth solving. I recently came across a company where they’d created so many features and products that they’d lost track of what constituted…
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Midpoint: peer-to-peer foreign exchange
I’m increasingly getting the sense that everything is possible in FinTech, at least from a peer-to-peer (‘P2P’) perspective. For example, marketplace lenders like Funding Circle and Zopa are all based on a P2P model whereby borrowers and lenders can transact directly. I recently learned more about P2P foreign exchange services by listening to an episode…
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My Product Management Toolkit (9): Playing Devil’s Advocate
How often do you get agitated when someone starts challenging your product idea? What’s your typical reaction when people ask critical questions about your assumptions or an idea that you’ve come up with? I have to admit that I’ve learned – and will continue to learn – to not take challenges or criticism personally. I…
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