Product Development
Book Review: Transformed – Moving to the Product Operating Model by Marty Cagan
This is the third Marty Cagan book review. The first review was about the book “Inspired – How to create tech products customers love.” The second book review was about the book “Empowered – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.” The book is personally very interesting to me, as I have had the pleasure of leading over…
Read MoreBook Review: Empowered – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan
I wrote a book review of “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love” by Marty Cagan, which I believe is one of the foundational books that one should read if building products, especially in tech. I also wanted to bring across the importance of Marty Cagan’s thesis on how to build products that people love.…
Read MoreSoftware Ecosystems and APIs
I wrote about software ecosystems and their importance in my previous blog entry and what needs to be added to this discussion is the use of effective APIs (Application Programming Interface). This is not the first time I have emphasized the need for software vendors to focus on APIs and build solutions that can be consumed…
Read MoreKeep it simple stupid! Building solutions that people want to use.
I wrote yesterday about the need to read manuals, and today I wanted to talk about the need to build simple and elegant solutions. My popular example is from my own life when I used to run a business intelligence software product development team and we did lots of exciting innovation, but some of this…
Read MoreIt is no longer about the cloud only, it is about innovation of new generation solutions
I feel a bit ashamed of not having blogged for a while, even if there has been so many different things that I should have shared along the way. The first 6 months of 2013 has been an amazing time for me professionally. I believe in life-long learning and I hope to keep up with…
Read MoreBusiness Analytics is on the rise again with Big Data leading the way
It is fun to see how some things will just continue being relevant. Business Analytics, Data Warehousing and lately Big Analytics are topping the charts. Based on my own feelings, Big Data really took off the second half of 2012 and we also included that in our business modeling workshops as one optional extension that…
Read MoreCloud ISV: make sure you understand your ecosystem play – example of Intuit and Microsoft collaboration on software platforms to create a foundation for solution developers
I have written several times in my blogs about ecosystems and the role that ecosystems play. I recently run into an interesting article in the Redmond ChannelPartner with the header “Intuit Extends Cloud Pact with Microsoft”. As I am working with Microsoft ecosystem every single working day, I became interested what the article was all…
Read MoreCloud as foundation for innovation: Are you willing to take your company outside your own comfort zone when innovating products?
I got the burst and desire to write this blog entry after having read an article about Microsoft and Toyota forming a partnership to develop new IT-based services for electric vehicles when to recharge. Think about it. In the future, the cloud will become the place that connects devices and vehicles and if this is…
Read MoreThird Ecosystem, Cloud Platforms and New Mobility Era in the workings
The market is sizzling with comments of the recent Microsoft/Nokia collaboration decisions. Some blog entries estimate that this marriage will be a problem for other OEM vendors using Windows Phone 7 while some blog entries estimate that this decision is very bad for Google. Only time will tell what this will lead to, but from…
Read MoreWill Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) without a cloud strategy have a slow but certain death?
Independent software vendors (ISVs) and system integrators (SIs) will have a wakeup call very soon unless they spend some time contemplating how the cloud will change their strategy. What I am seeing around the world is that innovative ISVs and SIs are eating the lunch of traditional and more established vendors and I expect this…
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