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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Next the corporation acquired KMel Robotics to address its short-term market opportunity.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Next the corporation acquired KMel Robotics to address its short-term market opportunity.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Next the corporation acquired KMel Robotics to address its short-term market opportunity.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

In the B2B world, there are many companies that control a section of market and remain mostly unknown to the greater public. YKK controls the unglamorous zipper market, through a combination of superior process (quality control and competitive manufacturing) and brand power scaring away competitors. But their ways quickly diverged.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

In the B2B world, there are many companies that control a section of market and remain mostly unknown to the greater public. YKK controls the unglamorous zipper market, through a combination of superior process (quality control and competitive manufacturing) and brand power scaring away competitors. But their ways quickly diverged.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. After enjoying almost total market domination, Intuit finally was beginning to face some competition.

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