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		<title>Why I&#8217;m a Cow on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a colleague relayed a story about a friend of his who was applying for a job.  On the application was a box to attach a photo.   Apparently my colleague’s friend wasn’t aware that she needed to bring a photo.  Therefore in an honest attempt to return a complete application [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=274&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone has an opinion&#8230;  which is precisely the problem.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Successful product innovation is always based on the voice of the customer.    Of course, the trick is to make sure that product managers hear the Right customer voices.      With participatory requirement gathering techniques, it’s never obvious which of your current customer’s product needs should drive future product [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=264&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I had a hammer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comedian Kathleen Madigan has a routine where she describes the objects that a single woman has in her household toolbox.    As you might imagine (since it’s a comedy routine) there&#8217;s nothing in the toolbox used for the purpose it was orginally designed.    The “hammer,” for example, is a man’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=234&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Sticky are your Products?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some ideas succeed while others fail?
Stanford professor Chip Heath has spent the last 10 years asking that very question.   I just finished his book (co-authored with his brother Dan who owns a business that specializes in innovation) in which Heath published his findings.     
The ability to create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=217&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your pledge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the undeniable spirit of optimism that swept our country this week as part of the inauguration of President Obama&#8230; this post is dedicated to advancing this sense of renewal.    
As our new President challenges:  &#8220;&#8230;let us summon a new spirit of patriotism&#8230;of responsibility&#8230; where each of us resolves to pitch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=136&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In today&#8217;s Economy&#8230; is &#8220;Tactical&#8221; more important than &#8220;Strategic?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are companies delaying strategic product investments (i.e., where product returns are realized in future years) for investments that provide returns in 2009?    
Tom Nicholas from the Harvard Business School published in The McKinsey Quarterly an article which says that executives who take a “wait and see” approach to innovation investment during downturns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=72&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation ROI:  What&#8217;s YOUR best practice for little &#8220;i&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extending features of existing products (that is&#8230; little &#8220;i&#8221;)  versus big &#8220;I&#8221; (new product innovation), has gotten a lot of debate on the best way to prioritize product requirements.    
Let&#8217;s face it&#8230; the features that often move to the top are those that the most profitable customer needs or what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=productpipeline.wordpress.com&blog=6228517&post=93&subd=productpipeline&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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