Even though Donna Dubinsky doesn’t have too much to do with Palm nowadays, she nevertheless is one of the more important persons in the history of the company.
She has recently published a guest article in a local US newspaper, which looks at the advances and the corporate culture of Palm – here’s a key segment:
A great product culture requires an ability to reject conventional wisdom. Time and time again, Palm thought deeply about the right trade-offs for users. When Palm created the Palm V, for example, it made the battery not removable to create a thinner and more beautiful product, a highly controversial decision at the time. The product was wildly successful.
A great product culture also tolerates failure. Palm always developed both evolutionary products — safe products with additional features sought by customers — and revolutionary products, riskier products that might require a few iterations before success. It took three generations of the Treo to create a huge hit.
Read more via the URL below:
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_15431301?nclick_check=1
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