01 Jul Musings on Product Strategy
Product strategy acts as a connecting bridge between your product vision & the coherent execution by the product teams....
19 Sep China’s Regulatory Blitz Shuffles Global Top 10 Platform Rankings
Is China's tech companies 'loss' other's 'gain' ?...
16 Aug Platform Scalability : Local Networks
It was a bright day during the winters of 2008. My co-passenger, a Kazakh boy of my age, and I connected over Bollywood 1 and Shahrukh Khan while travelling from Berlin to Munich in a shared car. Like me, he was also backpacking in Europe,...
24 Jun Platform-spotting: How to identify platform in your product?
The above framework will help you evaluate the potential platform opportunities in your products or services and inch closer towards a platform....
06 Jan 2020’s Top Platform Companies
In spite of a devastating pandemic and a moribund economy, many platform businesses have not only survived, but also thrived, scaled and prospered in 2020. The year also saw many historic IPOs.Here, I have ranked the platforms companies and marketplaces based on the percentage gains...
01 Dec Tech Debt: The Frankenstein of Product
The best explanation, I've heard till date, for the Technical Debt is the financial analogy - called ‘The Debt Metaphor’ coined by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Ward used the metaphor ‘Technical Debt’ to justify the code refactoring of a finance software to his...
17 Dec GE hits a reset on Predix
Posted at 13:46h
in Business Models, Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Writing
The restructuring of GE, which started in late July 2018, continues. In a recent announcement, GE CEO Lawrence Culp announced a new Industrial IoT company, which will create a $1.2 billion business focused on Industrial IoT. The new company will have its own brand, identity, and equity structure but still owned by GE. The independent structure of the company is definitely a good move, as this will allow it to focus on the core markets in the Industrial IoT market.
07 Jun Of gold and shovels in the IoT
Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!
With these words, Samuel Brannan began the famous California Gold Rush in 1848. Once he saw that there was gold to be found, he spread the news with his paper the California Star, and by the beginning of 1849, thousands of people were rushing to California in the hope of making fortunes. Only a handful of them were actually able to do so, and Samuel was one of them. He became the first millionaire of the Gold Rush – not by mining the gold, but by capitalizing on the needs of miners, and selling them picks, shovels, and pans.
