Market Thinking • 1 min read Strategic Pricing (MIT Sloan School) Rich Mironov gave a talk at MIT’s Sloan School of Management on “Strategic Pricing for Start-ups, New Products…
Agile • 3 min read More Chefs and Agile Restauranteurs As more of our clients have moved to agile software development, we’ve seen a growing need for business agility:…
Market Thinking • 3 min read How Well Can You Predict The Future? It’s been a very tough quarter for economic forecasters, quota-carrying sales teams and CEOs. The sudden downturn even…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Understanding the Opportunities of Buy-Side Economics As CEOs of our products, we product managers have a lot to do. Traditionally, this has included “build-versus-buy”…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Customer Input and Planning Horizons (Haas Executive Education) Rich Mironov returned to the Haas School’s Product Management Executive Education series, “Product Management: Translating Market Opportunities into Profitability,…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Disruptive Pricing Units During a miserable week of domestic air travel during June, I noticed new fees suddenly appearing for checked baggage and…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Grocers and Chefs: Software Service Models This article captured an April 2007 talk I did at SVPMA. I’m talking with more and more with companies…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Service Revenue and Upsell Marketing Much of my consulting lately involves on-demand services (aka software-as-a-service, or “SaaS”). I’m seeing ever-…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Burning Your Boats I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Crowding Out Tech Support This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Avoiding the Post-Course Correction As early as 1961, Soviet and American space scientists planned for mid-course corrections: those tiny bursts of rocket power…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Owning the Gap Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…