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Are your early adopters constraining your growth?

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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 …

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How to speed up innovation in your organisation

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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 …

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Fractional versus Permanent Head of Product and the difference to your organisation

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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 …

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Is boom and bust growth harming your organisation?

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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 …