Ever since the Snowden revelations privacy is a big subject. A recent report from PEW revealed that Americans did take action to protect their online privacy better. On the other hand, companies like Facebook and Google, who mainly make their money by selling your, anonymised, private information to anybody, are still showing healthy profits. The […]

Recently, I was reviewing some new concepts and noticed something strange. Normally, this is the fun part of Product Management (especially road mapping), but this time I got more and more irritated. Endless documents, mainly powerpoint slides (which I hate so much), with meaningless one-liners. Graphs with the most crazy predictions on how these new […]

It was the marketing trick of the year 2013, when the original Mailbox app was launch for Apple’s iPhone. After a couple of raving reviews, the creators of the App put up a waiting list. So, you could download the app, but not use it right away. You had to wait for your turn. That […]

A while ago, Dan Dana, the author of „The Reason Revolution: Atheism, Secular Humanism, and the Collapse of Religion” sent out an invitation to review his upcoming eBook. The title was very inspiring so I signed up. The book is available now. After reading it extensively, find below my review. As the title suggests, the […]

As you might have heard, two major US internet companies, Netflix and Comcast, have announced this weekend that they will connect their networks together. Before this deal, an other provider, Cogent Communications, connected the Netflix servers with the network of Comcast. By no longer using the other provider, Netflix expects to be able to provide […]

A lot is written about the impact the culture of an organization has on its ability to change. The common idea is that culture is something that is hard to change; therefore when the culture doesn’t support rapid change, it will often also be difficult to adapt to new ways of driving innovation. Less information […]

As I indicated in an earlier article I left for the Service Design Conference 2013 (SDN2013) with some kind of mixed feelings. Is Service Design a proper method for making strategic decisions on an organization level, or even on a product level? If not, can it at least provide information for senior management to make strategic decisions? […]

It was some time ago that I stumbled upon an article called  written by Randy Hunt, Creative Director of Etsy. In all honesty, I initially only read the title and didn’t thought about it much. I was convinced that the Design competence was crucial to getting the flow of innovation in many organizations going again. […]

In an earlier article on strategic design the Product Management competence was introduced. As a starting point the classic book of Haines, , was used which defines the competence as business management at the product, product line, or product portfolio level. It is the competence that maintains not only existing products and services, but also […]

In several articles I wrote about the changing role of Marketing in organisations. As written, these changes are caused mainly by the faster pace at which products and services need to be developed. Traditional Market Research is to much focused on what happened in the past. Though the findings may be relevant, by the time […]