Sunday 21 January 2018

Tips On Strategic Product Management

By Karen Reed


Managing products often involve planning, forecasting, production, and marketing of a value chain. This is a desirable undertaking for continuous improvement of the article or substance through innovation, value orientation and to optimize the utilization of resources. Product management is an important organizational role that gives an article or substance a competitive edge in a globalized and liberalized market.

A strategy for continuous and daily thinking and execution is integral to the development of competitive products and tapping into the identified market opportunities. A manager takes into consideration the market and competitive conditions supported by robust research and lay out a vision that meets the value and need expectation of the customer.

An article or substance manager is basically involved in all aspects of developing products. These aspects may include rollout plans, value management, value chains and definitions. Not restricted to only that, managers also have the responsibility of coming up with market strategies, product forecasting etc. To be effective, any system should have a seamless interdependency between the different relevant departments or units within a company.

The importance of a customer's input cannot be overstated. It is a powerful tool if harness properly. Feedback from users of an article or substance will go a long way towards helping a manager to understand what customers are expecting from their products. With this, he can decide on the best way to go about improving the products. Hence, better and more completive product options can be developed. So a good system must create a forum whereby customers can review products and suggest ways to make it better.

An innovative and enterprising manager is an asset to any company. This is because such a manager is open to ideas and can find new ways to tackle difficult problems. He also understands how to collaborate with people of different ideas and outlooks when looking for a solution. A good manager should not be rigid in his ideas.

The forecasting stage of the process entails putting measures in place to forestall any unforeseen events. A good forecast or prediction is an indication of how good and experienced a manager is at his job.

A result oriented approach will go a long in ensuring that set targets or goals are met. The manager maintains focus on driving the sales outcome of the article with keen responsibility in research, data collection and analysis, review of key performance indicators. This contributes greatly to strategy review and planning for action as and when required. Based on this, the manager is able to ensure adequate allocation of resources to execute on vision as well as strongly and confidently articulate the strategy and direction of an article or substance.

In conclusion, it is worth noting, that effective management delivers superior products with unique benefits and value orientation through seamless cross-functional coordination of activities. These are often, production and commercial units with different levels of effort/expertise. This coordination is integral in getting a product to the market, manage it while there, for profitability and sustainability.




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