Category: imagine

  • Are your products on cruise control?

    Are your products on cruise control?

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

  • Smell

    Smell

    Time for cinema to wake up and smell the roses?

  • Listening versus envisioning

    Listening versus envisioning

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

  • Your strategy is in your DNA

    Your strategy is in your DNA

    The first step of strategic planning is accepting who you are

  • Obvious in hindsight

    Obvious in hindsight

    Why are ideas valued so lightly?

  • Projecting simplicity

    Projecting simplicity

    Strategy models and frameworks hide the complexity that we wrestled with