PRODUCTHEAD: Being able to see the chessboard
» Business strategy is guesswork without situational awareness
» Once you understand the game’s rules, you can out-manoeuvre your competitors
Category: PRODUCTHEAD – Product management newsletter
Archive of the PRODUCTHEAD newsletter, a regular newsletter of product management goodness, curated by Jock Busuttil (@jockbu).
PRODUCTHEAD: Digital inclusion and accessibility
» Practical accessibility and inclusion guidance from UK and US governments
» Accessibility guides to various impairments by disabled gamers for the gaming industry
» Making your content accessible and inclusive isn’t ‘dumbing down’
» Professionals want clear, concise information, not jargon or complex terms
PRODUCTHEAD: Content design
» Use the language of your audience
» Easy-to-read content is accessible and inclusive
» Even experts prefer plain language
» Content design can be done on a tight budget when needed
PRODUCTHEAD: Rearranging the deckchairs
» Procrastinating on a TED talk about procrastination
» How to get stuff done if you’re a procrastinator
» Using procrastination to your advantage
PRODUCTHEAD: Have you been having visions?
» The vision describes the future we are trying to create
» It is a first filter for new ideas and change requests
» Mission, vision and other concepts are often confused with each other
» Have one overarching product vision, not lots of smaller ones
PRODUCTHEAD: The plummeting price of power
» Scientists have solved a problem preventing the commercial production of more efficient solar panels
» Solar generated electricity is now cheaper than fossil fuels
» Tesla’s South Australia battery farm is saving tens of millions of dollars
» South Australia spent an hour powered solely by solar, 77% of which came from consumers’ home panels
» The cost of US battery farm projects has dropped 70% in 3 years
» Tesla’s battery innovations would result in cost dropping by half, capacity increasing by half
» The convergence of green technologies would lead to explosive growth
PRODUCTHEAD: Hardware’s harder to manage
» Changing a hardware product iteration has a 12-18 month lead time
» Having more parties involved in manufacturing means higher costs and squeezed profits
» “Building in hardware ‘security’ mechanisms is just always a double-edged sword”
PRODUCTHEAD: Hieranarchy
» Hierarchy in organisations appeals to our innate need for stability, but turns us into ego-driven and needy children
» Nature abhors a hierarchy. What if there was a viable alternative way to organise ourselves?
» Valve Corporation shows new employees how an organisation can operate without hierarchy
PRODUCTHEAD: A single point of failure
» Even seemingly successful companies fail because of “one thing”
» Amazon is winning because it’s playing the game differently
» 6 ways to defend your business from systemic stresses
» Practical ways to build your mental resilience to setbacks
PRODUCTHEAD: Introverts, extraverts and just a smidge of pseudoscience
» Even introverts need a bit of social time in lockdown – just on their terms
» If we’re persuading, we’re selling, says Daniel Pink
» Selling is listening, understanding, empathy and only then does persuasion factor in
» Myers-Briggs test is pseudoscientific nonsense
