by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing, Product, Strategy
How do you go about understanding your customer needs ? How do you put a value on those needs. I will write a separate blog on pricing at some future point, but I want to share something interesting. It is an article from Sept 2016 in HBR by Eric Almquist John Senior...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 16, 2016 | Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy
Apple Form Factor Evolution Art director and designer Edwin Tofslie has clearly laid out a comprehensive- enough evolutionary visual time line of Apple products from 1976 to the present day, ending with, umm, uhhh–oh yeah, that new telephone device thing. .via...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 13, 2016 | Business Design, Business Model, Innovation, Invention, Strategy
Lessons from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant First things first, The purpose of this blog is NOT to Blame any one for the disaster. Anyone familiar with problems knows that there were a series of multiple events. In fact we are quite lucky that...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 13, 2016 | Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Product, Strategy
Better thinking skills One of the ways one can reduce errors in thinking/judgement is to avoid errors due to cognitive bias. The mind is designed to think quickly, Often these shortcuts help however in today’s world sometimes these thought processes result in...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 4, 2016 | Design, Innovation, Marketing, Product, Strategy
Apple’s previous history of pen based tablets – the Newton was a disaster. Neither the technology was good enough nor were customers ready to use the Pen. 20 years on, the the market and technology has moved on. Pen based products now are almost...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 2, 2016 | Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing, Product, Strategy
Today, many of the goods we buy have an aftermarket. Houses, Shares, Cars, Gadgets, Mobile phones etc… Building a successful aftermarket and allowing people to buy a “nearly new” product is the key. Apple have successfully build a high resale value...
