Chirag Mehta
Technology, Design, and Innovation strategist at the Office of the CEO, SAP, focusing on technology and architecture strategy and strategic operational, product, and management innovation. Adjunct faculty at Santa Clara University and San Jose State University with the department of computer engineering teaching graduate classes. Frequent speaker at conferences, special events, Chirag blogs at Cloud Computing.
Can A Product Manager Be Effective Without Product Design Skills?
I am very passionate about the topic of design and design-thinking. When I saw this question on Quora, I decided to post my answer. Following is directly from my answer to this question on Quora: The answer is “Definitely not.” It’s not about the product design by itself, but it’s about applying core and transferable [...]
Telcos Could Be The Future Enterprise Software Vendors For Small Businesses
Having worked on enterprise software product and go-to-market strategy for SMB (small and medium businesses), I can tell you that these are the most difficult customers to reach to, especially the S in SMB. It’s an asymmetric non-homogeneous market f…
Lean Startup Customer Development And IxD Personas
On Quora Steve Blank asked “Is it possible to use Lean Startup customer development findings to inform IxD personas?” This post is my response to Steve on Quora: Absolutely yes. Pivoting is not just about finding the right business model that works for a start-up but it is also about nailing down the persona that [...]
A Laundromat Entrepreneur
In my previous post “While Entrepreneurs Scale On The Cloud The Angels Get Supersized” I wrote about how cloud computing is disrupting the VC industry. Continuing on the thread of entrepreneurship I am seeing more and more entrepreneurs building applications who do not belong to any formal organization, start-up or otherwise. The definition of what [...]
While Entrepreneurs Scale On The Cloud The Angels Get Supersized
Cloud computing is disrupting the venture capital industry in a big way. One of the obvious changes we all have observed is the reduced up-front capital expenditure to start a new venture. Things that used to require an array of expensive servers and an army of people to maintain them have essentially been replaced by [...]
Software Is The New Hardware
Today Intel announced that it is buying McAfee for $7.7 billion. This acquisition made people scratch their heads. Why McAfee? The obvious arguments are that Intel has hit the growth wall and organic growth is not good enough to satisfy the shareholders. But this argument quickly falls apart from margin perspective. Why dilute their current [...]
The Missing Half Of A Social Enterprise
In my previous post “Social CRM Is Only The First Half Of A Social Enterprise ” I started the discussion on why social CRM is only the first half of a social enterprise and how we can go to the core and build a true social enterprise. Continuing the discussion on the missing half on [...]
Social CRM Is Only The First Half Of A Social Enterprise
Social CRM has arrived. My fellow bloggers and analysts friends
Delphix Is A Disruptive Database Virtualization Start-up To Watch
This is my second post on my impressions from the Under The Radar conference. Check out the first post on NoSQL. Virtualization is not cloud computing. However virtualization has significant potential when it is used to achieve cloud-like characteristics such as elasticity, economies of scale, accessibility, simplicity to deploy etc. I have always believed that [...]
Disruptive Cloud Computing Startups At Under The Radar – NoSQL – Aspirin, Vicodin, and Vitamin
It was great to be back at Under The Radar this year. I wrote about disruptive cloud computing start-ups that I saw at Under The Radar last year. Since then the cloud computing has gained significant momentum. This was evident from talking to the entrepreneurs who pitched their start-ups this year. At the conference there [...]
In Case You Didn't Know Twitter Is Growing Fast – Very Very Fast
I have been following the Chirp conference today where Evan Williams, who goes by @ev, disclosed Twitter growth numbers in his keynote and shared their pains, gains, and priorities. We all know that Twitter is growing fast – very, very fast – but here is the summary of those numbers that tells us what that [...]
Emergent Cloud Computing Business Models
The last year I wrote quite a few posts on the business models around SaaS and cloud computing including SaaS 2.0, disruptive early stage cloud computing start-ups, and branding on the cloud. This year people have started asking me – well, we have seen PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS but what do you think are some [...]
NoSQL Is Not SQL And That’s A Problem
I do recognize the thrust behind the NoSQL movement. While some are announcing an end of era for MySQL and memcached others are questioning the arguments behind Cassandra’s OLTP claims and scalability and universal applicability of NoSQL. It is great to see innovative data persistence and access solutions that challenges the long lasting legacy of RDBMS. Competition [...]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct [...]
Mass Customization: From "There is a plug-in for that" To "There is an app for that"
In a much anticipated mystic event Apple announced a tablet called an iPad. Steve Job’s hypnotizing presentation convinced people that iPad is a magic. I was not there in person to see Jobs unveiling an iPad and somehow escaped the magic. That gave me time to think about the implications of a trend that an [...]
