Bangalore product tour (Feb 2015)
Hosted by Confianzys, I visited Bangalore from 19Feb to 26Feb for a combination of workshops, public talks and client meetings. The trip had a cooking theme: sharing the “secret sauce” for innovation and successful products.
Events included:
An all-day roadmapping and prioritization workshop. Since IT Services so dominates the Indian tech scene, we focused on the fundamental differences between product companies and service companies.
An afternoon session on product challenges for entrepreneurs and startups, including real-time problem-solving for two Bangalore-based startups
A panel discussion at IIIT-B (International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore) on innovation, market validation and product-versus-services. We also got a tour of their tech startup incubator.
A freewheeling session at IIM-B (Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore) with entrepreneurs, engineers and IIM-B faculty. Hot topics included blended services/products, two-sided markets, how India-based product managers take more control of their products, and a case analysis of one local startup.
A panel discussion and closing talk at Product Leaders Forum. See a video of Rich’s comments on “Silicon Valley’s Pay-It-Forward Culture“.
