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		<title>Market Assessment Framework Part 3: Prioritizing Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/market-assessment-framework-prioritizing-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you prioritize between segments for a given market opportunity? This article discusses a framework that I have found useful to drive consensus on picking the top segments to pursue. The essence of the framework is to balance market attractiveness attributes of segments with the ability for your organization to deliver on requirements dictated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=354&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invention Game</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/invention-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, the six-year old had to come up with and talk about an invention for a first-grade class project. Surely an interesting exercise, considering that she barely understood what an invention was. As I helped her think about it, , I asked her to do the following: Think of 3 things that bother her in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=350&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>P.A.S.E.R</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/shortcutstosuccess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened to watch the movie &#8220;Arakshan&#8221; (Hindi, 2011; translation: &#8220;reservation&#8221;) recently. As it also happens, the movie is banned in some states in India as it deals with the touchy subject of reservation (&#8220;affirmative action&#8221;) in public-funded educational institutions. While the movie itself is watchable at best, the title is actually misleading. The movie is a lot less about reservation. Rather, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=346&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father Stands For Fun</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/father-stands-for-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six year old is growing up fast. Below is what she wrote in her Fathers&#8217; Day essay for school. &#8220;Dear Dad: You are kind and helpful. You are nice and thoughtful. You are sweet and you play with me. You are smart, strong and you are a very good cook too. You make good Indian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=313&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Close Curtain Call</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/close-curtain-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-year old had her first ever stage performance this past weekend. She was featured in a group performing a semi-classical Indian dance.  As the curtain opened on her group, we noticed one of the tots getting dragged with it. The tot made a few fleeting steps along with the curtain but managed to free herself just as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=314&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Build versus Buy Criteria</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/build-versus-buy-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deciding whether to build or buy (i.e. partner for) functionality is a key question you have to answer on an on-going basis as you develop product roadmaps. This is definitely one of the grayest areas of product strategy, and this article is an attempt to highlight some of the most important considerations. A few definitions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=301&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terms of Endearment</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/terms-of-endearment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a year now, if I hear my six year old address me as &#8220;Papi&#8221; or &#8220;Popsickle&#8221;, I know that she is up to something and wants something from me.  Usually, it is nothing more than having me read a book or play a game. On occasion, she might want the forbidden candy or chocolate- forbidden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=297&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Assessment Framework: Part 2- Fixing an Existing Product</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/market-assessment-framework-part-2-fixing-an-existing-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More often than I would like it to be, I have had to assess an existing product that is not performing well. Most often, I have inherited these products over the course of a product management stint. I use the same framework as in Part 1 of this article with a few twists. This enables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=288&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Product Leader or Product Manager?</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/product-leader-or-product-manager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between leadership and management, as I recently understood from Professor Kotter’s masterpiece (“What Leaders Really Do?”, John P. Kotter, Harvard Business Review, 1990).  I think the article provides a lot of insight into why many product organizations fail and what you should do to structure successful product teams. In particular, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=286&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Assessment Framework: Part 1- Assessing a New Market Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://ideachamber.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/new-market-assessment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two strategic tasks often come up for product managers: Assessing a NEW market opportunity Fixing an EXISTING product that is not performing well  The purpose of this article is to provide a framework that will help you navigate these strategic projects and come up with a defensible response. Over the past decade, I have used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideachamber.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1278631&amp;post=273&amp;subd=ideachamber&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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