http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ On topics related to Product Management and Marketing en Vox Sat, 19 May 2007 09:02:53 -0400 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/i-am-moving-my-blog-to-wordpress.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/i-am-moving-my-blog-to-wordpress.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/i-am-moving-my-blog-to-wordpress.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 19 May 2007 09:02:53 -0400 For the last 7 months, I maintained a blog here on Vox and now I am leaving Vox to start my blog on Wordpress. The main reasons for me to decide Vox were: 1) Anyone who has to leave comments on my blog have to create a new account with Vox. That ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/i-am-moving-my-blog-to-wordpress.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d09e6cf653be2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/meetings-before-the-meeting.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/meetings-before-the-meeting.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/meetings-before-the-meeting.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 May 2007 06:57:21 -0400 As a marketer, you are often asked to make presentations to many executives on topics ranging from product strategy, state of the business, new pricing models etc. When I have been asked to make such presentations especially to a large number of p... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/meetings-before-the-meeting.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d4142e1c47685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> product management meetings product manager http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/why-smart-executives-fail.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/why-smart-executives-fail.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/why-smart-executives-fail.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:13:22 -0400 Found this really interesting video on how smart executives in established companies do not see the winds of change and see their companies lose their market leadership. It is one hour long, but one every product manager should watch. Even when th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/why-smart-executives-fail.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d4142c5747685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/channel-9.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/channel-9.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/channel-9.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:29:04 -0400 It had been a while since I had traveled on United Airlines. I am a frequent flyer on American, primarily because of the good connections they offered from Boston to Japan (plus once I was a Gold member, I had to keep flying them just to keep my s... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/channel-9.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d414302f483c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> united airlines channel9 community2.0 channel 9 http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/cheering-your-development-team.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/cheering-your-development-team.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/cheering-your-development-team.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:55:22 -0400 As a product manager, you are the product's CEO. You have the responsibility and accountability for everything related to the product. In your role, you have to work with and depend on multiple internal or external groups (none of whom report to y... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/cheering-your-development-team.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d4142e6ee63c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> customer engagement team cheerleading team development http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/being-a-good-product-manager.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/being-a-good-product-manager.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/being-a-good-product-manager.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:03:45 -0400 Found this very interesting blog on what makes a good product manager. Very interesting read. Enjoy!! http://www.goodproductmanager.com/ <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/being-a-good-product-manager.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d4142aa6556a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> product manager http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/web-innovators-group.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/web-innovators-group.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/web-innovators-group.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:36:38 -0400 I attended my first Web Innovator's group meeting held at the Royal Sonesta hotel in Cambridge on Wednesday. It was a packed audience of about 200-300 people ranging from startup companies seeking funding to networkers to VC's looking for the next... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/web-innovators-group.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d09e6093dcbe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> virtual ubiquity mydesignin web innovators group cardvio http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/goals-needs-and-behaviors.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/goals-needs-and-behaviors.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/goals-needs-and-behaviors.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:38:27 -0400 Goals, Needs and Behavior Analysis - this is a new technique that I have added to my repertoire of market research tools. People buy products because they have an underlying need. The need is usually associated with an end goal. While trying to sa... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/goals-needs-and-behaviors.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00cd971c98024cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> goals needs market research behaviors http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/community-20-conference.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/community-20-conference.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/community-20-conference.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:43:10 -0400 I am back attending the first Community 2.0 conference in Las Vegas. I was immensely surprised to see how many people (200) were in attendance and the names and the variety of companies in attendance (Microsoft, Intuit, SAP, Boston Celtics, Seattl... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/community-20-conference.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d414289ac73c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> online communities communities community 2.0 http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/how-much-automation-is-good.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Gopal Shenoy) http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/how-much-automation-is-good.html?_c=feed-rss http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/how-much-automation-is-good.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:02:14 -0500 I have faced this question a lot of times when designing software for product designers? It is very easy to say "let us automate this and that?". Given the state of software development and the number of bugs every software has (just read the repo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://gopalshenoy.vox.com/library/post/how-much-automation-is-good.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf7e75e53094f00d4141fcf7d685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> development excel software automation turbotax