Ideas


This category acts as a holder for articles that don’t belong elsewhere, and is also the placeholder for all my random thoughts and bright ideas about program management or anything related.

Enjoy!

Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of

Organizations start small and over time, if they are successful, they tend to grow. In the abstract ideal the most successful organization would grow profits without needing to increase its cost base by hiring more people, occupying bigger offices, or investing …
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Lean Startup and Program Management

I’ve just finished reading an excellent book by Eric Ries called The Lean Startup. You may be wondering already what running a startup has to do with program management? If you read on you will discover they actually have much …

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Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are participative speculative marketplaces designed to help us predict future outcomes. Within these marketplaces the current price of a prediction tells us the expected probability of an outcome occurring.

An example of a predictive market which most of …

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Reverse Innovation

Reverse Innovation simply means developing products for emerging markets initially before later distributing those same products in the developed world. When a product is eventually distributed in developed markets the product may look radically different, but it is still essentially …

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