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“The IPO Playbook” (Book Review)
Steve Cakebread is a CFO with a lot of experience in leading companies to Initial Public Offering (IPO). In his earlier career Cakebread worked at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard, after which he was involved in three successful IPOs, at Salesforce, Pandora and Yext respectively. In “The IPO Playbook” Cakebread shares his lessons learned and […]
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My Product Management Toolkit (49): Systems Thinking tools & techniques
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Systems Thinking discipline. My main learning point about Systems Thinking was the interconnectedness of the parts that make up a system. Understanding the different parts and how they interact with each other is critical in developing a full understanding of the problem or opportunity to tackle. […]
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Shop Pay (Product Review)
My summary of Shop Pay before using it? Shopify’s new proprietary payment method. How does Shop Pay explain itself in the first minute? If I go to the Shop Pay website the first thing that I notice is that the site doesn’t mention Shop Pay. Instead, it talks about “Shop”: “Set up Shop and turn […]
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My Product Management Toolkit (48): Systems Thinking
“No problem ever exists in complete isolation. Every problem interacts with every other problem and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problem, a system of problems.” Russell Ackoff Rusell Ackoff, pioneer in systems thinking, used to explain that “A system isn’t the sum of the behaviour of its parts; it’s the product of […]
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“Obviously Awesome” (Book Review)
When I first came across the book “Obviously Awesome”, I was a bit sceptical; “not another book on positioning?!” and “how applicable will this book be?!” However, April Dunford, the author of “Obviously Awesome”, often shares great insights about the world of product marketing, and I was keen to read her thoughts about product positioning. […]
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