Will ChatGPT Kill SaaS?
The public discourse has expanded beyond whether ChatGPT will kill coders to the existential threat now posed by Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms to SAAS software. According to the proponents of…
Product Mindset – Middleware Platform
I recently read the following post on Twitter: @sudomax: Who would have thought connecting disparate APIs would have been so successful. The OP is referring to Zapier, which automates workflows…
Test Driving DIKW Model With Pizza Coke Sales Data
In From raw data to real profits: A primer for building a thriving data business, McKinsey proposes the so-called DIKW model for Data Product vendors where: D is Data I…
Bootcamp: Latest Presales Technique
After it generates a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), Marketing hands over a case to Sales to take it to closure. In software product selling, one of the first things that…
Innovation Is Not Invention
Innovation is not Invention. Invention is a new thing. Innovation is a new way of doing an existing thing that amplifies impact through broader reach. Let me cite a few…
ChatGPT: Navigating the Peaks and Troughs Of Gartner Hype Cycle
Generative AI was at the Peak of Inflated Expectations phase of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence published in June 2023. By now, it was due to enter the…
When Will M&A Propel An Indian IT Company Into Fortune Global 500?
This has been a year of big ticket M&A in the Indian IT industry. While the acquisitions haven't put any Indian IT company on the FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 list yet,…
How Do Banks Benefit From Auto Bill Pay?
(This post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the above Quora question.) When I pay my electricity bill on the utility company's website or app, I'm using the…
Predict Technology Adoption By TALC, Not TAPU
Soon after the demonetization of high value currency notes in India in 2016, there was a huge cash crunch and the public was exhorted to switch to cashless methods of…
Price Primer
Price is one of the 4Ps of marketing: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. I've covered pricing methods here and here, and pricing paradoxes here and here. This post is about…