Tag: Product Management
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“Build” (Book Review)
Tony Fadell is probably one of the most successful and well known product people alive. Fadell led the teams that built the iPod, the iPhone and was the CEO of Nest, the popular thermostat which was later on acquired by Google. In “Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making” Fadell reflects on his…
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“The Crux” (Book Review)
“Good Strategy. Bad Strategy” is one of my favourite books on strategy and one that I often refer back to. In “Good Strategy. Bad Strategy”, corporate strategy expert Richard Rumelt writes about the ‘kernel’ of a good strategy. This kernel has three elements: (1) a diagnosis of the main challenge or problem, (2) a guiding…
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“Loved” (Book Review)
“The work is both highly strategic and tactical. But it is far more than creating product collateral, doing sales enablement or managing launches, a common misperception of the role” reads one of the opening paragraphs of Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products. “Loved” is a book by Martina Lauchengco, an experienced product marketer…
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“The Team that Managed Itself” (Book Review)
Reading the back cover of “The Team that Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership” by Christina Wodtke there’s an interesting quote from Marty Cagan, internationally renowned product management thinker and author: “In this new book, Christina has tackled what I consider the most important problem in the tech industry. Only a small fraction of product…
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Why ‘single purpose’ apps are en vogue
As I’m currently investigating how to best simplify the ways in which user discover new content – as part of my day job as a product manager at Beamly – I have been thinking more about so-called ‘simple purpose apps’. The words ‘single purpose’ indicate that the apps focus on a singular user ‘job’ (I’ve written about ‘jobs’…
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