There are many ways to skin a cat, so the old saying goes (a terrible expression that it is!). Product planning of software and hardware tech products seems to fit in the same category. There are some models that you tend to see over and over again. And there are a lot of different ways […]
US Government Sales & Marketing
What’s the difference between US Government sales versus selling to the Commercial market? It’s like night and day. Sales and Marketing to the government truly are the flip side of those functions in commercial activities. You really can’t believe how different government and commercial markets are, until you’ve actually come from one side–and tried to […]
BIG S, little m
Don’t worry; this isn’t going to be an article about Sado-Masochism! Well, come to think of it, that term may apply to what some founders and senior managers in software and hardware tech companies are doing to themselves and their companies. What I’m referring to is the VP who gets hired to manage both the […]
Pricing High Tech Products
Pricing is always an interesting topic, but even more so in the Hardware and Software worlds. In the consumer products business, if there is a package of frozen peas from Green Giant priced at $3.99, you’re not likely to see someone else offering the same-size package of peas at $19.99. But it’s different for SaaS […]
Structuring High Tech Product Management
Tech Product Management–what does this term mean in the typical software or hardware company? What is the function, and where does it belong? I have a broad view on this as I’ve held permanent positions in quite a number of high-tech concerns, as well as worked in this area with a great many software and […]