What happens when the people who decide your technology treat it like a commodity to be purchased, not a capability to be grown? The short answer: expensive failure. The recent collapse of an Oracle …
The Enshitiffication of the Owl Continues: A Product Leader’s Perspective
Duolingo showed the world how to scale language-centric gamification to the masses. It built a wildly recognisable brand, a delightful product hook and a huge user base. Yet the company struggles to …
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Scaling the Product Trio: Turning Collaboration into Measurable Outcomes
How do you take the magic of a well-functioning product trio — product, design and engineering — and scale it across a business so that teams consistently deliver outcomes, not just outputs? Many …
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Treat Your Ways of Working as a Product: Design, Measure and Improve How Teams Work
How you organise teams and ask them to work is not an incidental management choice — it is a product you design, ship and iterate. Yet most organisations treat ways of working as folklore: handed down …
How Small, Empowered Product Teams Scale Strategic Innovation
What happens when an organisation treats teams as boxes on an organogram rather than as the engine of value creation? Too often the answer is predictably dull: lots of meetings, fragmented …
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AI Is Essentially Free — So What’s Stopping You from Learning It Right Now?
Price used to be the excuse. No longer. Between free tiers, open-source models and cheap self-hosted tooling, the marginal cost of experimenting with AI is close to zero. That changes the calculus for …
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