How to make faster progress with an agile approach
Agile is often used in technology projects but there are principle and techniques that can be used on all projects – whether it includes technology or not. For the InspiredCEOs.Biz …
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How to move from one product to many?
Your business has been successful. It’s launched it’s first product and that is reaping rewards. For a technology based business, you probably have a product owner, people developing the product …
Is Product on your board?
The transformative Triangle Where does Product fit with your business? Is there someone who is responsible for Product on the leadership board? When I work with scale ups I find …
Breaking the Project Delivery Growth Trap with a Product Mindset
Growth Trap: I keep on kicking off projects to fix things in the business, and yet I end up putting all my effort into fixing the failing project, rather than …
5 Growth Traps for Small Business
I was recently invited to write an article for Innovify.com about growth traps. When I look at growing businesses there are typically 5 stages of growth, and 5 risks of …
Does bad online delivery kill your brand?
Over the last 12 months I’ve been working with a European Retailer around Digital Transformation. They’ve been doing great things – about refining their range, revamping the web-site, and building …
The Art of Powerful Questions
Powerpoint on slideshare.net A powerful question creates a new understanding. It’s either the unlock to truly understand another person, or it opens them up to understand something new. Asking the …
How do you align Leadership, Sales, Marketing and Development in one day?
A little while back, I was asked by a major software company to help them kick start development of a radical new set of mobile/tablet apps across their alliance and …
How do you break bad habits in an Organisation?
Recently, I started to learn how to play the guitar. It’s something I should have done in my teens, but I seems to be studying too much. It was hard. …
Presenting the Product Roadmap as a story
We all like stories. We watch movies about them and when we come to driving a business case, stories are helpful in connecting to the board about the how and …