Everything you need to know about developing digital products.
Your first 50 customers are holding you to ransom You’ve nurtured your first customers, treated them like royalty and even soaked up the cost of expensive pet features they requested then failed to even use (they were apparently business critical at the time). They are still your family though, you’ve grown with you and they are the foundation to your …
The best organisations are highly collaborative across departments and use multi-disciplinary teams to deliver value. More than that however, their people leave their job titles at the door, roll their sleeves up and solve problems. They understand that their functional skills are there to enhance innovation and enable value creation. At a strategic level, these organisations understand that the most …
Why innovate? Put simply, innovation equals value. As sonos have recently found, when innovation slows, so does growth. Remember the old saying: ‘if you are not growing you’re shrinking’ as everyone around you evolves and grows. Thus you must learn faster than your competition how to create or enhance a user’s experience or solve a problem better than others in …
What is a fractional Head of Product? You may already be familiar with the term ‘fractional’ from the technology and IT space; we are seeing greater numbers of highly experienced professionals choosing this way of working. Commonly, you’ll see fractional Chief Technology Officers or Chief Information Officers, but how often do you see fractional Chief Product Officers? Even less common …
Executive Summary Recent years have been good times for the tech industry, seeing high growth and scaling through the global covid pandemic, but now the party is over. Growth has slowed due to economic forces reducing investment opportunities and limiting consumer spending. The resulting hire and fire approach has damaged some organisations financially and reputationally. To avoid this situation, it …
Here is a selection of books to help guide product learners, leaders and founders towards books that can help us learn, grow and develop a mindset of #experimentation and #growth. We have divided into groups based on where you may be at in your product development and personal knowledge journey from learning to advanced and start-up to scale-up. Product Learners …
The majority of product founders and leaders build a product then go and find a customer for that product. Their main concerns are: Will I be able to get users to trial my product? Will users get enough value out of my product to drive into the funnel beyond trial?Will the primitive usability of my product prevent people converting?What should …
Many have already written that being a product founder is a difficult job. It requires a broad understanding of many concepts which are necessary to combine to deliver digital products people value. Skills are required in the following disciplines (and more): UX Marketing Technical People skills Analytical Creative Etc etc.. The real skill lies in being able to know just …
Guest post by Leah Ryz, Executive Interim Manager / Problem-Solver / UX SME I’d been very ill. I was very ill. A side of me that I didn’t know existed reared its ugly head, as Senior Medic after Senior Medic discredited each other at my bedside, changed direction and approach by the minute until Doctor B came along, and something …
This guest article is brought to you by Peter Campion, Founder of Skillbox. Freelancing is a career aspiration for most and a dream job to strive for. Who wouldn’t want to freelance, right!? The sky is your limit and when freelancing it brings you a vast amount of freedom, flexible work and control over your future. You will find it …
