Product Management
Product Management articles/posts on Curiouslog. Product Management function is high on complexity and potential impact. Articles here are my views on finer nuances of Product Management from experiences across B2C and B2B businesses.
The Present Future of Audio: Talk, Music, Video, Interactivity – a16z Podcast
October 16, 2020
Consumer Behaviour + Podcast Notes + Product Management
a16z podcast has had two very interesting episodes on the past, present and future of audio. This episode goes deeper…
Masters of Search in the streaming era
September 06, 2020
Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Product Management
Search Experience on Netflix, Amazon Prime and You Tube Across both audio and video formats, the online media consumption in…
Understanding the power of gamification
August 30, 2020
Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Product Management
For the last 2 weeks, I have been learning Spanish on Duolingo. It’s amazing. The Duolingo app is just phenomenally…
Problem Framing and choice of adjectives – story of ventilators and sanitizers
June 02, 2020
Leadership + Problem Solving + Product Management
Problem Framing is considered a crucial step in the development of a new solution/product or in problem solving. Yet, we…
Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows
February 23, 2020
Digital + Financial Services + Financial Inclusion + Financial Services + Payments + Mobile Payments + Payments + Product Management
Very simplistically put, payment is the movement of money from A to B. And the world is becoming increasingly comfortable…
Find what’s really broken before fixing it
February 03, 2020
Leadership + Problem Solving + Product Management
I enjoy coding. While I have a long way to go as a programmer, coding does put me in a…
Factory and Lab mindsets in product management teams
May 05, 2019
Digital + Leadership + Most Popular + Product Management
Factories and laboratories evoke very different images. With a factory – I am usually thinking the industrial revolution in all…
Quest for Friction Less Experiences
February 11, 2018
Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Payments + Mobile Payments + Most Popular + Payments + Product Management
Yesterday, I got to experience the WhatsApp payment flows. It surely felt like a neat friction-less experience both for adding/mapping…
Beyond Big Data – A Small and fast data example
November 14, 2016
Digital + Ideas + Product Management
Big Data is all the rage. Everywhere you go, any meeting or presentation one sits through, Big Data seems to…
Good rules should be designed for higher adoption
September 30, 2016
Case study + Ideas + Leadership + Most Popular + Product Management
How do we drive adoption for rules in a community, or even at a country level ? Should a good…
Search Vs Social – the long tail of ad revenues
July 08, 2016
Case study + Digital + Product Management
Google and Facebook together took away 64% of the total US online advertising spends. And Facebook had around 65% of…
Unit Economics in the times of Auction Marketing Models
April 09, 2016
Case study + Digital + Product Management
Unit Economics is all we hear these days in the consumer technology world. Unfortunately for many start-ups seeking venture funds,…
Public policy, ripple effects and feedback loops
April 05, 2016
Case study + Consumer Behaviour + Leadership + Most Popular + Product Management
I have always been intrigued by product design and by extension policy design (& implementation). If the government were to…
Payments are a critical piece – Digital Banking ToolKit
February 06, 2016
Digital + Financial Services + Payments + Product Management
In India, digital and mobile Payments is a really HOT space right now. HDFC Bank introduced PayZapp which intends to…
Showing Contact Addresses in Google Maps
December 23, 2015
Digital + Ideas + Product Management
Quick Summary: Here’s a small product feature recommendation for Google Maps on Android. Currently when I am in Google Maps…
Thin Mobile App or a Fat one – Digital banking toolkit
October 26, 2015
Case study + Digital + Financial Services + Payments + Mobile Payments + Payments + Product Management
Mobile is the new frontier and banks know this well. Amongst the various choices to make as part of the…
SMS is reborn as an acqui channel in the Smartphone age
October 14, 2015
Case study + Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Product Management
In the early days of Deal4Loans, we used to get a lot of traffic and leads through SMS campaigns. Especially…
Uber and Free Market Economics
September 10, 2015
Case study + Consumer Behaviour + Digital + Product Management
Uber has changed the way we travel within cities. On a recent trip to Jaipur, the first thing I did…