Product management negotiation–and other innovation insights for product managers Sept 14, 2017
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Fast Company named Netflix as one of their “Most Innovate Companies for 2014″ and it’s no surprise. Netflix…
Last week I wrote about a losing product development and management strategy – ignoring or misunderstanding a product’s…
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With the rumored iPhone 6 in development, now is a good time to take a look at the…
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In Plato’s early treatise, entitled Republic, he concluded that “necessity is the mother of invention,” but I like…
If you are living in a U.S. city, you may take one commodity for granted: electricity. But in…
As I have traveled the US for the last several months visiting innovators I have also seen many…
How much did your grade school cafeteria resemble the design of a soup kitchen? When you think of…
Think back to the times in your life when you have felt most excited and creative, and then…
At Harvard’s Kennedy School, the classes, and indeed, the building itself, are set up to foster studying in…
An article in Forbes India tells us to embrace failure as a critical learning opportunity in the innovation…
“[I]n the 21st century, we are being nudged forward—by our customers, our employers, our economy, and by the…
This week has brought many interesting product announcements that contain lessons for product developers, managers, and innovators. Below…
Your company is working on an innovation that you think will attract more customers—but have you asked yourself,…
You wouldn’t think that cookstoves would be such a hard thing to design. After all, the concept of…
Recent travels have led me to consider the type of corporate environment—or culture—that would be most receptive to…
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Chad McAllister, PhD, is a product management professor, practitioner, trainer, and host of the Product Mastery Now podcast.