The search for competitive advantage – and escape from price-based competition – often centers on the value – creating supplementary services that surrounds this core and add differentiation.
Decisions, Which Are Useful For Products Management
The search for competitive
advantage – and escape from price-based competition – often centers on the
value – creating supplementary services that surrounds this core and add
differentiation. Managers should be aware of the important of selecting the
right mix of supplementary service elements-no more and no less than needed –and
creating synergy by ensuring that they are all internally consistent. Customer
research, evaluation of competitive offering and feedback from employees can
all provide important inputs to the decision making process. Three principal
factors should be considered here are.
1. The nature of the market and competition from the
product
2. The nature of assistance needed
by the product regarding production, engineering, financing, staffing and so
on,
3. Strategic requirement of a border
nature, namely, those affecting the product line, the business or the whole
corporation.
Factors To Be Considered In Organizing For Product
Management
1. What do we want to out of product management
2. What do we want our product manager to do?
3. How do we want our product manager to do their
jobs?
4. What operational guidelines will we established? 5. What expectation do we have for
the specific contribution of product manager and product management? 6. What authorities will be assigned to product managers? 7. What are the number and nature of products and
managers? 8. What are product objective? 9. How will we measure the effectiveness of our
product management? Role Of Product Manager In An Organization
In assessing the product manager’s performance the following checklist
can be used: 1. Product line control 2. Product life cycle, analysis and capitalization 3. Product development and success of new products
recommended 4. Improved communication 5. Improved supplies and sourcing 6. More and better market information 7. Wider and better market information 8. Centralized products planning 9. Coordination of activities 10. Achievement of planned profits 11. Cost and profit control
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