Product Management is a right brain activity

Product Management is a right brain activity A report on the second Career Day in April 2017 Following the success of the first Career Day held this year in February , the second edition was held on April 15th in the IPL Koramangala campus. It was a packed house at the IPL campus with 62+ […]

First 100 days after product launch

First 100 days after product launch It doesn’t matter if you are an entrepreneur or a product manager in a large organization. If you are an entrepreneur, you must have conceived the product a year ago, maybe even two years. Since no one funds an idea, you had limited capital and human resources at your […]

Deploying Technology To Save Lives

Deploying Technology To Save Lives “IPL gave me the right set of people and skills to fuel my entrepreneurial interest”, says product innovator and entrepreneur Rajavel P Rajavel P. is the founder of Levizi Healthcare. The idea of Levizi Healthcare struck him during his IPL EMBA days. This was incubated by IPL product labs team […]

How Do I Find A Mentor ?

How Do I Find A Mentor ? In this blogpost, we continue with the series on Mentors and Mentorship. Mentors are those whose experience and wisdom you can gain from. They are said to have a positive impact on an employee’s career progression, job satisfaction, motivation levels and his/her commitment to a company. They spur […]

Book Review: A Craftsman Mindset is Critical for Achievement

Book Review: A Craftsman Mindset is Critical for Achievement Kaushik Balasubramanian, EMBA 2016, Server Power Performance Architect at Intel Corporation, Portland, OR. Have you wondered how some have stellar careers? Have you wondered if there was a radically different domain that you wish you had ventured into? Have you felt tempted to quit everything in […]

Dilemmas in Scaling Up

Dilemmas in Scaling Up Q&A With Ben Foster, VP of Product Management at OPower Harvard Business School’s “Product Development at OPower” case study elaborates on the dilemma faced by a start-up product firm as it tries to scale up. Coping with the pressure for customization is a central challenge faced by many start-ups as they […]

BUILDING BLOCKS OF CUSTOMER INSIGHT

BUILDING BLOCKS OF CUSTOMER INSIGHT Many companies begin and many continue without a clear sense of their target customer. Some resist clarifying the target; they want to appeal to as many buyers as possible, and defining a target implies excluding some customers. Others are unable to describe in more than a cursory way who does […]

SO…YOU READ ABOUT “MVP”, “BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN”, “PIVOT” – NOW WHAT?

SO…YOU READ ABOUT “MVP”, “BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN”, “PIVOT” – NOW WHAT? Lean principles are pretty hot these days and it makes so much sense. So…you read about Minimum Viable Product (MVP) -maximum learning with minimal effort; Talking to customers – “Get out of the building”; “Build-Measure-Learn” and if you wonder… – how can you leverage the benefits […]

Reversing the Indian Brain Drain

Reversing the Indian Brain Drain Ambarish Kenghe, Alok Goel, Rich Miranov and other Industry Leaders at your service There is good news for the Indian product space, and great news for Myntra, India’s leading m-commerce platform for fashion & lifestyle. Ambarish Kenghe joins Myntra as Senior Vice-President and Head of Product, bringing with him 15 […]