Essentials Of 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.

Managing products is the key to developing good articles from the initial planning to the final execution. This allows companies to tap into the various market opportunities. Companies employ managers to help manage their products. A manager's job entails a lot of research work. This helps him to find out relevant information on the different market forces that might affect the article and any competition it might face. Based on this information, a manager will now carve out a vision that meets the expectations of potential customers.

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.

Innovation and enterprise are two qualities a manager must possess. These help when dealing with particularly difficult products. In such situations, an effective manager should be innovative and not restrictive in his search for a viable solution.

Forecasting is equally an important process in management of an article or substance. This is intended to protect an article or substance against unforeseen contingencies of all kinds. This is an indicator of how well a manager can cope with changes as a result of external or internal happenings. It is at this point that re-invention and innovation play a major role.

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.

Planning, forecasting, production, and marketing of products is directly proportional to product result. This means that superior planning, forecasting, production, and marketing of products results in superior products while poor management is likely to yield poor products. A good article or substance is as a result of seamless synchronicity and coordination of different departments and units. These units are usually comprised of the production unit and the commercial unit, who bring different skill levels to the management process. The coordination of these two units is responsible for getting a product from the planning stage to the marketing stage of the management process as well as ensuring its longevity and profitability while there.




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