new products

[http://startswithabang.com/?p=1204] Here’s something I was reminded of when recently catching a glimpse of the first lunar landing for forty years. You probably know of this space program urban legend [http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_zero_gravity_pen.htm]; What do you do when you

On a talk radio show Monday I caught a discussion on the merits or otherwise of a particular piece of technology. It was the world’s first [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22885969] lab-grown meat. To be cooked and eaten as a burger patty later that day, live in

Here’s someone with a take on how to persuade people to adopt something ‘new’. Brian Millar [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669568/what-jack-and-the-beanstalk-can-teach-you-about-pitching-clients] uses the story of Jack and his Beanstalk, highlighting the role of the coins set against the magic beans. Too much newness puts off almost everyone. Think

I’ve attended several sales conferences where new products are ceremoniously unveiled. I’m regularly struck by the enormous desire to trailblaze. The rising triumphalism often aims to drum home how cutting edge the new offering is. How it opens up a whole new market segment. There’s nothing like

There’s a large English firm with fingers in many ‘leisure’ pies called Whitbread [http://www.whitbread.co.uk/about-us/history-of-whitbread.html]. They’ve grown from brewing and pubs through pizza houses to coffee chains and hotels. This week their chief exec [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/

A salutary lesson. The average lifespan of a Google product is only 1,459 days [https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2Fmar%2F22%2Fgoogle-keep-services-closed&ei=