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Designing for scale and the tyranny of choice
A post by Alex Limi, of Mozilla, Checkboxes that kill your product, is a fascinating read for anyone in the position to choose or implement the feature set of a software project. What is fascinating...
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Conversation #38– disrupt or die
Anyone worth their salt in product development knows that listening to customers through any and all means possible is the means to innovation. Wait a minute, anyone worth their salt in product...
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Disruption and woulda, coulda, shoulda
With the latest pivot for Blackberry much has been said about disruption and what it can do to companies. The story, Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt, by Sean...
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The Four Stages of Disruption
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics. While I was speaking with some...
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If at first you don’t succeed: disrupting incumbents in the enterprise
I was talking with a founder/CEO of an enterprise startup about what it is like to disrupt a sizable incumbent. In the case we were talking about the disrupting technology was losing traction and the...
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The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be
Nothing is more critical to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business than pricing strategy. Pricing is the moment of truth for a new product … and doubly so when it is a company’s first product. But far...
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Apps: Shrapnel v. Bloatware
Much is being said lately about the trend to unbundle capabilities for the web and apps. Is this a new trend, a pendulum, or another stage in the evolution of providing software solutions for work and...
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Startups aren’t features (of products or companies)
Companies often pay very close attention to new products from startups as they launched and ponder their impact on their scale, mainstream work. Almost all of the time the competitive risk was deemed...
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5 Ways to Compete With [Big] Incumbents
In The Stack Fallacy: Why Big Companies Keep Failing Anshu Sharma writes about how difficult it is for a [big] company to move up the stack to adjacent businesses/product categories by building on...
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Why The Heck Can’t We Change Our Product?
I drove by the fork in the road and went straight. — Jay-Z (see author’s endnote) One of the most vexing product challenges is evolving the UX (user experience, and/or user UI) over long periods of...
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