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My Product Management Toolkit (21): Assessing Opportunities
Earlier this year I wrote about the tools and techniques to use when exploring market viability. I believe that the ability to properly assess specific opportunities is closely linked. I’ve found that, especially at the early startup stage, there are plenty of opportunities to potentially go for, as they’ll all bring in revenue and offer growth potential.…
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Vipps (Product Review)
I’m always on the lookout for new payment apps and I recently came across Vipps. Vipps is a Norwegian peer to peer payments app, currently only available to Norwegian users. These are the main things I’ve learned about Vipps: Main learning point: Love how apps like Vipps are making it easier and easier for people to pay…
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“Influence without Authority” (Book Review)
As product managers, we’ve all experienced it: a sense of frustration when you’re accountable for delivering value without having any authority over the people that are critical to delivering that value. Whether it’s stakeholders, customers, developers, designers, there’s only so much we can do to influence and create the level of buy-in or cooperation required…
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THEO (Product Review)
I recently came across THEO, a mobile, Japanese investment service offered by Money Design. THEO acts as a ‘robo-advisor’; enabling users to invest using their smartphone, and applying machine-based learning to offer users investment suggestions. The service allows users to start investment from 100,000 JPY. By answering nine questions (see Fig. 2 below), Money Design’s proprietary robo-advisor’s…
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“The Art of Active Listening” (Book Review)
Listening. Listening. Listening. I know how important it is, but I also know how hard I sometimes find to truly listen. I guess I’m not unique when I miss half of what the other person is saying because I’m so preoccupied with what I’m going to say in response. This realisation prompted me to read…
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