Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
Of course innovation has been going on since there were people, sticks and fire. But, in terms of the literature, it really started for me in 1990 with Elko J. Kleinschmidt & Robert Cooper’s New Products, Key Factors in Success (with its quite marvellous cover, above. Can you imagine the brainstorm?: 'how ARE we going… Continue reading A tale of two tales
Adaptive Path may be brillaint at most things but they can't write books well. There. I've said it. 'Subject to Change' is the new AP book. And it's an absolute whirlwind tour of ideas surround design, design strategy, the future of organisations and consumer marketing and how to build software systems to deliver great experiences with agile development methodologies. It's virtually… Continue reading Subject to terrible writing
I've been reading the fantastic The Machine that Changed the World. The book was first published in 1990 by a team of economists from MIT in response to the whacking which American car producers were receiving from the Japanese. It had been widely assumed that the system the Japanese were using to simultaneously deliver higher… Continue reading The machine that changed the world
I hardly ever give up on a book. There was a Kate Atkison book my mother gave me for Christmas four years ago but that's about it. Well Herd has stopped me in my tracks. This feels like real shame because I think the idea behind it is brilliant and the key insight is central to… Continue reading Stop me if you think that you’ve HERD this one before
Leading product 