new products

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/08/oil_platform.jpeg] Five years ago I helped a software house with a lovely little project. I was reminded of it the other day when a chap with half-a-dozen reps on the road talked to me about, in his description, “manned crm”

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/08/saddamstatue-firdos-sq.jpg] Here’s a phrase I’ve heard a lot of this week on news bulletins. As Libya teeters on the verge of Gaddafi being toppled, what no-one wants is the kind of devastating chaos seen in post-Saddam Iraq. All onlookers

I didn’t realise until reading this recent piece in London’s Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-science-of-the-trailer-2330110.html] broadsheet that making film trailers was a $200m dollar industry. It made me think about my early days of regular cinema attendance, largely only enabled by my

Well, the tabloids have been hardly able to contain themselves, have they. In the words of one broadsheet columnist, “Winehouse at last gave the media a collective orgasm of prurient crocodile tears by dying“. The title of this post is that of a regular feature of a London rag, delighting

Someone working years ago for English brewer Bass told me of efforts to re-launch their Tennents [http://www.google.co.uk/images?num=100&hl=en&q=tennents+lager&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=yAvETKG-PI_QjAfe7rG5BQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQsAQwBA&

Here’s a bullet from a list of business growth recommendations in Management Today [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1023468/Eight-ways-design-better-start-up/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH] . > Find a way of testing out new products, services or markets quickly and cheaply Whilst primarily aimed at start-up design, this particular pointer has great relevance

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/07/nintendo-wii-games-console-technology] Here’s one from the world of consumer gadgetry. I just heard the Aussie head of Nintendo in the UK, David Yarnton, give an interview on his company’s new games console, the WiiU, from its USA tech show launch.

I caught a recent 70sec video from a Global Product Manager. The reason I clicked on the link was because because I’d been to where he’s based (IBM, Lexington) and he’s an MBA. Then, after saying the obvious – that he looks to financials to judge the success