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Product-Management

Product Portfolio Investment Map: Tying Product Strategy to Execution

A Product Portfolio Investment Map is a snapshot of product portfolio investments that shows the relative emphasis on various classes of new product development projects. Typically, these investments are grouped together according to the amount of risk each project assumes.

Product Offering: How to Create an Effective Strategy

A product offering is a group of features, services, or goods that work together to deliver a specific value proposition to the customer. A well-designed product offering can help a business stand out from its competitors, attract new customers, and retain existing ones.

Strategic Product Management: The Key to Business Success

Strategic product management is crucial for developing a successful product. It involves defining the product’s vision and strategy, setting goals, developing the roadmap, planning the launch, and analyzing performance.

Consulting Deliverables: A Comprehensive Guide

Consultants provide tangible and intangible outcomes to clients through consulting deliverables. Some examples of consulting deliverables include reports, presentations, assessments, analyses, models, plans, designs, prototypes, and training materials.

New Product Consulting: Maximizing Your Product's Potential

New product consulting is a service that helps inventors, startups, and small businesses bring their product ideas to life. The process involves market research, product innovation and design, and strategies for effective product launch.

Program Management vs. Product Management

The titles of program manager and product manager sound similar, but they serve quite different functions in an organization. The skills and job title descriptions of these two professionals are distinct.

How to Use OKRs in Product Management

Understand Product Management OKRs, why they are important, and how to use them to streamline your organization’s process and workflow

Data Product Management: What it is and Why it’s Important

Dive into the world of Data Product Management with TCGen. Explore its significance in today’s digital landscape, the roles of data product managers, and how it differs from traditional product management to drive business success.

The Product Management Process Explained

Learn more about the product management process, its main stages, differentiation in terms of software and hardware, examples and much more in our guide.

Product Owner vs Product Manager

Do you want to know more about the difference between product owners and managers? Learn more in our product owner vs product manager guide prepared by our team

Product Management Frameworks: A Complete Guide

Using product management frameworks is a way to dramatically improve product management and make your products a success. Read on to find the most powerful frameworks you could use to boost your business.

Attitude Influence Diagram: Eliminating Political Roadblocks

Have you ever had an excellent product concept derailed by internal politics? It is frustrating since good ideas that could benefit the company as well as the individuals involved are blocked for irrational causes. The Attitude Influence Diagram is one tool that helps to overcome political obstacles.

The Product Radar Chart: Making Smart Product Tradeoffs

The Product Radar Chart offers a way to evaluate and communicate the myriad factors that go into product and portfolio decisions by graphing the key dimensions of a product or concept and comparing them to alternatives.

Product Vision - Between Strategy & Roadmaps

Have you ever wondered how to create a great product vision? Let’s show you. Start with some examples to get your reference frame properly set. Then look at some of the formats that might work best for you.

Empowering Teams Through Metrics at Apple

Four times Apple tried and failed to adopt a consistent product development process. We established a target metric with the aim of seeding the changes within the organization so that they took root.

Make Meetings the Best Use of Your Time (Instead of a Waste of Your Time)!

We’ve all experienced those mind-numbing meetings – there are a lot of people in the room, and many issues to resolve – but at the end of the meeting, little has been accomplished – what a waste of time and energy! One of the biggest factors driving inefficient meetings is organizational politics.

Social Community Matrix: Getting the Most Out of Social Communities

Many of our clients are using virtual communities to communicate and collaborate with outside partners. Managed communities enable you to share ideas and present the best proposals to the leadership team. Here’s a tool that helps select the best type of community for your needs.

Jump Starting Teams

New programs spin up every day, but most teams get off to a bad start. In a rush to get going, they forego a few simple steps that would help position their programs for success.