Introduction
The creation of successful products is essential for companies that want to grow or maintain a competitive advantage. Many organizations lack a clearly defined and understood product strategy.
We will discuss the importance of the AIPMM Product Management Framework (PMF) to define and implement a process to conceive, plan and market your company’s products at each stage of their life cycle. We will identify key activities to align business and product strategy with unmet customer needs to create value for your business.
We will describe the typical product life cycle from concept to launch and through product retirement. We will also discuss why growing organizations need to implement a formal product management process to support their product strategy.
Objectives
* Why do you need to define the right product strategy?
* What are the benefits of implementing a product planning process?
* What do you need to constantly create insanely great products?
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Contact me for any of the following:Obtain information about upcoming certification courses in your area.Let me know how I can help your business grow by defining and implementing the right product strategy.Obtain the answer worksheet.Obtain copies of these slides.
The world’s largest professional organization of product managers, brand managers, product marketing managers and others responsible for Goods and Services.The only organization that addresses the entire product lifecycle (inception to obsolescence) throughout any industryCurrently over 8,000 membersPresently has offerings in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Southeast Asia. Membership benefits include (in addition to eligibility for the Certification Programs): discounts to AIPMM conferences, the Career Center, peer Forums, tools, templates and publications.
AIPMM offers globally recognized certifications for product managers, product marketing managers and brand managers.Certified Product Manager (CPM), Certified Product Marketing Management (CPMM) and Agile Certified Product Manager (ACPM). Certification requires obtaining a college degree, minimum one year of experience, and passing a certification examination.
Product Strategy is a company’s game plan that takes into account the core capabilities within a business to create and deliver value-added products within a marketplace.It describes how you plan to conceive, plan, implement, distribute, market and sell your products in a sustainable manner.
Why Your Company Need It?Provides a roadmap to create value for your business, customers and investors.Identifies how you plan to market and sell your products to your marketplace.Anticipates your competitors’, including new entrants, probable moves.Defines how your customers think about your products. May encompass any number of products, depending on the nature of your business.
In their March 19, 2012 issue, FORTUNE magazine named the 50 most admired companies. The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. Our survey partners at Hay Group started with approximately 1,400 companies: the Fortune 1,000 (the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue), non-U.S. companies in Fortune’s Global 500 database with revenue of $10 billion or more, and the top foreign companies operating in the U.S.They then sorted the companies by industry and selected the 15 largest for each international industry and the 10 largest for each U.S. industry. A total of 698 companies from 32 countries were surveyed. (Due to an insufficient response rate, the results for 11 companies in the scientific, photographic, and control equipment industry were not published. In addition, due to the distribution of responses, only the aggregate scores and ranks for the 10 companies in the oil and gas equipment/services industry were published.) To create the 58 industry lists, Hay asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from investment value to social responsibility. This year only the best are listed in the magazine: A company's score must rank in the top half of its industry survey. Online, all companies' results are displayed. To arrive at the top 50 Most Admired Companies overall, the Hay Group asked 3,855 executives, directors, and securities analysts who had responded to the industry surveys to select the 10 companies they admired most. They chose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25% in last year's surveys, plus those that finished in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any company in any industry. The difference in the voting rolls is why some results can seem anomalous -- for example, although FedEx is one of the top 10 Most Admired Companies, it is second in the Delivery industry behind top-ranked UPS, which ranked 29th on the top 50 overall.
Business StrategyDescribes what a business wants to achieve and then how it is going to make it happen, with its products, customers, and operations.Defines the path to create a sustainable competitive advantage.Product StrategyDescribes resources, operations, channels and partners to create and deliver value to your target customers in a sustainable manner.Provides a roadmap for investment and creation of new revenue streams.
Recommended Reading:Harvard Business Review April 2004The Ambidextrous Organizationby Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. TushmanThe Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future.
Here we show AIPMM’s Product Management Framework. It depicts the typical phases for products throughout their life cycle from cradle to grave.It contain elements that apply across all industries and all companies and can also be adapted to create customized frameworks to address unique needs of specific industries and companies.It defines a standard set of inputs, processes and outputs that can be applied to any product.It provides a solid foundation for both implementing and evaluating a product management organization in a company.
A business model is a framework that describes the rationale of how an organization creates, captures and deliversvalue to customers,shareholders and employees.The business model creation process is part of business strategy.Business models are used to describe and classify businesses. They are also used by managers inside companies to explore possibilities forfuture development.
A business model is a framework that describes the rationale of how an organization creates, captures and deliversvalue to customers, shareholders and employees.The business model creation process is part of business strategy.Business models are used to describe and classify businesses. They are also used by managers inside companies to explore possibilities forfuture development.
Contact me for any of the following:Obtain information about upcoming certification courses in your area.Let me know how I can help your business grow by defining and implementing the right product strategy.Obtain the answer worksheet.Obtain copies of these slides.
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