According to this HBR article Vijay Govindarajan and Anup Srivastava state that “80% of the companies that existed before 1980 are no longer around — and another 17% probably won’t be here in five years.” Corporate mortality is rising. That is a very frightening fact for any Enterprise. According to their research, one strategy to avoid that […]
15 Things You Need to Give Up to Be a Successful Product Leader
Becoming a successful Product Leader is a difficult undertaking. If you want to be successful, you need to consider giving up these things. Let’s find out what they are. 1. Always Making Gut Feeling-Driven Decisions Are you relying solely on your intuition when making product-related decisions? Did your CEO make a product-related decision ever just […]
10 painful mistakes to avoid for a successful new product launch
According to Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, each year more than 30,000 new consumer products are launched, and 95% of them fail. One of the hardest things is to build great products your customers truly desire. It feels a bit like you need to read their mind to know what they want. How do […]
25 tips for an exceptionally successful new product launch
You might remember the headlines story around the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 which kept exploding. The main reasons were design and manufacturing errors which led to this disaster. Credit Suisse analysts estimated that Samsung would lose at least US$17 billion in revenue from the production and recall of the Galaxy Note 7. Building great products […]