Category: imagine

  • Are your products on cruise control?

    Are your products on cruise control?

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    What some of those furloughed employees have been up to during lockdown… Boy are we looking forward to getting out of lockdown! One of the coping tactics that I use, and I know others do too, is imagining what life will be like in a post-covid world. Putting aside the…

  • Thank You

    Thank You

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    All of us leave a trail of small impacts on others as we travel through life. A kindness here, a mistake there, a product that helps, a book that makes a reader cry. We often know nothing of these little touches on others’ lives. Sometimes, these nudges turn out to…

  • Quality Product Time

    Quality Product Time

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    Having decided to give up full-time work my successor and I decided that we should make a final trip together to visit key customers in the US. It was a great trip to NY and LA, visiting many of the major post-production, film and television production facilities. At one such…

  • User Time vs Compute Time

    User Time vs Compute Time

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    We obsess about how long an operation takes in software rather than its impact on the user.

  • Turkeys won’t vote for Christmas

    Turkeys won’t vote for Christmas

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    Why established companies can’t respond to paradigm shifts in the market

  • Smell

    Smell

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    Time for cinema to wake up and smell the roses?

  • Listening versus envisioning

    Listening versus envisioning

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    Why polarized choices about how to create great products are just wrong.

  • Your strategy is in your DNA

    Your strategy is in your DNA

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    The first step of strategic planning is accepting who you are

  • Obvious in hindsight

    Obvious in hindsight

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    Why are ideas valued so lightly?

  • Projecting simplicity

    Projecting simplicity

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    Strategy models and frameworks hide the complexity that we wrestled with