After another disappointment at the rowing world championships in 1998, something had to change for the Great Britain mens rowing team. Last time the GB Men’s Eight won an Olympics gold medal was in Stockholm 1912. If they continued to do what they had always done, they would continue to…

Give people a problem to solve — “We´re going to be innovate this year” “Our top priority for the coming year is to innovate more” “We have increased our budget to spend on innovation this year” Innovation I feel is one of those icky topics these days that everyone is talking about and seemingly it is the…

A company that doesn´t fall of the life balance beam. — This is a foreword to a mini series on how to build a company that survives ravages of time. Companies are complex adaptive systems with many intricate parts, that are required to work in symphony, and when they fail to do so, can be detrimental to the livelihood of…

Online marketplaces and platforms have grown substantially and online purchases of goods and services in 2019 accounted for an estimated total of 1.92 billion. Technology today has become democratised to an extent where it is no longer the differentiator. People rarely need write code or algorithms from the ground up…

In the previous post The Simplest Explanation to Outcome and Feature Teams, I tried to explain the difference between the two. We got to know the two characters of our story: Delivery Dan and Experimenting Eve. Additionally, we learnt that consumer products require a different way of working. Releasing new…

There is a lot of talk about being an outcome team or a feature team in product companies these days. But what does that mean, which one is better and why should you care? First, let me start by trying to explain the difference between the two from my own…

I can say this on behalf of almost everyone, by the time the credits roll at the end of the movie or TV show, we leave or switch to something else. Never quite appreciating the village of people involved in making that movie or TV show. After I finished watching…

“Great companies are built on great products” — Elon Musk The hard truth about start-ups or start-ins: the journey from the initial product idea to market success is riddled with uncertainty. You feel like you’re walking in dark room of unknown dimensions. Every now and then, a light goes on…

I have recently moved back to London, and need to commute to the office every day. Having a car is exciting — I will have more control, I will be able to leave home as I please, and use it as much as I want so long as I remember…