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My reflections on new product management tensions
It’s been 2 years since I published “Managing Product = Managing Tension”. In the book I cover the common tensions inherent in managing products and offer practical ways in which product managers can deal with this. I’ve received a lot of positive reactions to the book from people who have recognised the challenges I outlined…
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OpenAI ChatGpT (Product Review)
A few weeks ago I wrote about DALL-E 2, a a new machine learning model by OpenAI that can create images from a scene written in words. In my blog post, I explained how DALL-E 2 introduces a form of generative AI, enabling users to create images from scratch or to alter existing ones. Last…
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How Rent the Runway is being data driven
In a recent interview with Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and CEO of Rent the Runway Jennifer Hyman described her business as a ‘discovery platform’. Rent the Runway enables people to rent fashion items, either as part of a subscription or as a one-off. Rent the Runway is a two-sided marketplace with users renting items from specific…
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“Thinking in Systems” (Book Review)
“Thinking in Systems” is a short but pretty dense book about systems thinking. Its author, the late Donella H. Meadows, was an environmental scientist who back in the Seventies started applying the then relatively new tools of system thinking to global problems. In “Thinking in Systems” Meadows covers the three aspects of any system in…
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What does generative AI have in store for us?
Whilst generative AI isn’t a new concept. Unlike traditional AI technologies, generative AI doesn’t predict or classify based on input; it generates content and images based on text input. This form of AI first became popular in 2014, through the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this post, I’ll focus mostly on image generation…
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