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Embracing a Founder’s Mindset for Product Management
A common analogy in the industry positions the product manager as a “mini-CEO” of their product. This characterization emphasizes the breadth of responsibility, from strategy to execution, that a product...
Harnessing AI for Accelerated Company Growth: An Integrated Strategy
In an era defined by technological advancement, businesses can no longer afford to be spectators. AI has emerged as a game-changer, accelerating growth, fostering innovation, and powering new operational efficiencies....
Uncovering the Value: The Core Product Learnings from Apple’s Ecosystem
The Apple ecosystem is a prime example of how seamlessly integrating different products can create a cohesive user experience. By focusing on creating an ecosystem rather than just individual devices, Apple has been able to create a strong brand loyalty and increase customer satisfaction. In this blog, we explore the top 5 innovative use cases of the Apple ecosystem, along with six product lessons that can be learned from the success of Apple's approach.
Becoming a Product Manager that is More Often Right
As a product manager, one of the most important aspects of your job is making decisions that will drive the success of your product. However, it’s not always easy to know what the right decision is, and even the most experienced product managers can sometimes make mistakes.
The Future of Technology: A Look at the Top 5 Mega Trends
Mega trends are long-term, transformative forces that are shaping the world in significant ways. They are typically global in nature and have the potential to disrupt industries and societies.
Identifying and understanding mega trends can be a useful exercise for businesses and organizations, as it can help them to anticipate and prepare for future developments, and can inform decision-making and strategy.
Emotional Intelligence in Product Management: How to Understand and Influence User Emotions
As product managers, we often focus on the data and facts regarding product development and decision-making, followed by technical aspects of product development, such as features and functionality. However, it’s essential to also consider the emotional aspect of our products and how they can impact our customers’ experiences.
Surveys – One of the best tools for Product Managers
When building a product, you need to find out if it is a real problem for users and how they solve it today. Surveys are a great way to get those answers quickly, with a low budget, and the most convenient for you and your users.
Microsoft To Do – Product Review by a Product person
Our professional, personal & family lives now have many things to do. To complicate things further, each category has multiple tracks, timelines, and priorities. And it's easy to get lost in the sea of things if you don't organize it well. Microsoft To-Do has been one of the simplest yet most powerful tools you can't miss.
Product Learnings from Google I/O ’22
Google I/O is packed with lots of key learnings to take away around Data-oriented content, Storytelling, Real-life use cases, long-term thinking, thinking for scale, impact on the ecosystem, and making a big difference for humankind. It's not just a product-focused feature presentation but how Google is helping solve more significant problems of the world today and how their solutions work.
How To Be A Product Damager
Here are some qualities of a Product Damager.
14 Golden Quotes Product People Should Live By
Some quotes inspire and make you think. Few quotes you never forget and start living. Here are some of my favorite quotes that apply to business and product management.
Will This Online Duck fly?
This is in the context of DuckDuckGo(DDG) - A search engine geared toward users’ privacy. Google, the de facto standard for search, has been challenged by a small but promising search engine, DDG. DDG differentiates itself based on the promise of privacy that it wants to offer when searching the web.
Saregama Carvaan – Product Review From a Product Person
As a music lover and a passionate technology product person, I got hooked to Saregama Carvaan 4-5 years back when they launched, and I absolutely love it.
Is Google Aspiring For Desktop Supremacy With Its Chrome OS Flex?
Trying to understand Google Strategy around newly released 'Chrome OS Flex' an OS that can be installed on old Windows and Mac PCs. Google is set to give older Windows and Mac PCs a new life and convert them as Chromebooks. A super-fast cloud-focus OS to get the job done for regular users.
Pushpa, Pushpa Raj.. The Product Manager
A power-packed Indian action drama, Pushpa: One of the most loved movies of this year! The dialogue, the songs, and the style rocked the stage, and people loved it. The dialogues stand out, and here's how it relates to Product Management
9 Tracks To Drive To Be A Better Product Person
There are multiple initiatives that the product team drives. Here are 9 critical tracks that I think a Product person should drive on a daily/weekly basis for their entire career while building great products. While these sound overwhelming, however, if you love being a product person, this will be your second nature.
Raspberry Pi: Product review by a Product Manager
Raspberry Pi marks 10 Years since its first launch in Feb 2012, and what a fantastic journey it has seen over a decade. Raspberry Pi isn't just a technology gadget to review here, but a platform and an entire ecosystem to talk about at length. As a tech-savvy product manager, it's fascinating to see what Raspberry Pi brings to the table.
Product Management as a Superpower
Product Management definitely is a superpower that encompasses multiple core skills. Here is a list, what I believe a Product person should possess to have this superpower.
Why did Google pay $15B to Apple for search?
Recent news is eye-opening to know that Google paid $15B to Apple to keep Google as a default search engine on iPhone and Apple devices. Curious to know how this works out for Google made me do the required math and understand the Google business better.
How being a sportsperson makes you a better product-person
There is so much to learn from sports that directly applies to product and life in general. Sports gives a chance to learn, fail, experiment, win, celebrate, coordinate, and more, and this blog is expanding on the same lines.
5 Product lessons Tennis taught me
A lot learned in the past six months and watching the game closely. Here are some key things to take away from Tennis for a product manager
8 ways to spot unknown unknowns
Have you ever said, "I was not aware of this thing, good you told me" or "Maybe I am missing something"? Possibly something unknown to discover there!
8 ways Entrepreneurship makes you a better Product Manager
Schools don't teach entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur is the fastest way to get well-rounded in various aspects of the business and life.
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Everyday as a Product Manager
Product is hard, and there are so many dimensions to think and act. You can do Product Management for a decade and still not be the perfect Product Manager.
10 Product Principles I learned from a 10 day Road Trip
In Dec 2019, I took an adventurous 10 days to ride from Bangalore to Rajasthan and back. About 5000 KM on Indian roads. Here are some key learnings that I take away from my adventure and map to my product journey.
Signal: Product review by Product Manager
While there are plenty of chat apps and WhatsApp has become the de-facto standard. It’s hard for any other player to make an entry unless there is a substantial benefit.
Reviewing Notion note-taking App as a Product Manager
Eighteen years ago, I strongly felt a need to organize my content, notes, and digital footprint. Nothing comes close to Notion to organize your life!
5 Lessons learned on Competition by Howard Schultz (former Starbucks CEO)
I recently completed a masterclass from Howard Schultz on business leadership and was struck with one key topic about competition.
Must Watch Videos for Product Managers
Product management framework, storytelling, negotiation, communication and various topic covered in this page.
Books for Product people
The more exposure you got to various things, the better are your chances to think critically and to succeed.
Amazon’s shareholder letters – A must-read for Product Managers
Multiple articles and videos pointed about 'Amazon's shareholder's letters' and this has been on my reading list for some time now. People called it gold and I wanted to know what it's all about - And it' a real gold, man!
Amazon Kindle – A product review by Product Manager
Amazon Kindle has been there for a decade now and I have been using it for the past 8 years. Completely hooked on to it and I rarely buy paper editions. Saves cost, instant availability of the book for reading, and plenty of options to read
The Attitude of a Product Manager
Apart from the soft and hard skills required for a product manager, ‘Attitude’ is a crucial element that can make or break your product journey. It can help you transform...