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How Covid-19 permanently changed the course of Product Management?

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The Covid-19 pandemic is for sure gonna be “the” most defining moment of most of our lives. It has forced us to change/rethink every big and small aspect of our life. However, here i am just gonna focus on how Covid-19 has permanently changed the course of Product Management.

Covid 19 - Digital transformation

Work From Home

This is one of the biggest impact Covid-19 has made on almost every business and profession across the world. Pre Covid there was more or less a general consensus that work from home decreases productivity. Many companies as a policy didn’t even allowed work from home for its employees.

However, due to Covid-19 and the worldwide lockdowns that followed, companies were forced to allow extended work from home policy.

And just like that, the myth got busted. Companies realized that there is no significant impact on productivity due to work from home. This was even more prominent in the Tech domain and as a result, some companies like Twitter and Slack have even gone ahead with the bold move of permanent work from home.

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JioMeet vs Zoom – Thoughts beyond the copied User Interface (UI)

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So JioMeet has obviously “copied” / “inspired” it’s User Interface (UI) from Zoom. That is a fact and there is no denying it. Anyone who says otherwise need not be taken seriously.
Enough has already been said and discussed all over the internet about the UI similarities between JioMeet and Zoom. There is good amount of debate done and internet has basically been divided into 3 camps –

  1. People calling it a marketing masterstroke by Jio
  2. People calling it plain theft and even suggesting Zoom to take legal actions against Jio
  3. Meh.. So what ??

Anyways, here are my two cents on the topic –

The key metric that everyone is gunning for is the user base or adoption. The target group for these apps can be broadly divided into traditional B2B and B2C segments. Let’s discuss some key points for these segments –

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