The learner has mastered these aspects of Product Management, Product Strategy & Leadership:
1. Customer Insights - Develop strong customer insights & identify customer needs to define a compelling value proposition 2. Manage Digital Products - Launch and monetize Digital & SaaS Products with strong metrics-driven lifecycle management from acquisition to retention. 3. UX & Prototyping - Ability to build a visual prototype to communicate product features & ideas internally and externally with customers. 4. Agile Roadmapping - Ability to prioritize requirements to executable release, guide product development lifecycle through Agile, and build market-validated roadmaps. 5. Metrics that Matter - Understand the various metrics in customer acquisition, retention, and revenue. Define relevant north star metric for a product based on the product life-cycle. 6. Prioritization - Apply data-driven prioritization techniques to maintain stakeholder alignment via product backlogs and enhance customer-focused value creation. 7. Growth Techniques - Learn growth techniques for customer acquisition by developing a digital marketing plan leveraging social media tools & techniques 8. Go-To-Market - Define and execute GTM strategy by defining personas, positioning, marketing campaigns, and sales channels. 9. Lean Development - Learn the practice of experimentation, hypothesis-driven development, data & metrics informed decision making in building B2B & B2C products & services 10. Product Analytics - Analytics to track and measure user behavior, product health, and usage issues to make informed decisions in continuous product improvements. 11. Product Vision - Build a long-term product vision and articulate a written strategy for the business. 12. Opportunity Analysis - Analyze new product opportunities to arrive at ‘go’ or ‘no-go’ conclusions efficiently. 13. Portfolio Management - Decide where to invest & what to shut down at a portfolio level using new-age frameworks like GE McKinsey Model. 14. SaaS Models - Assess the pros and cons of various business models including SaaS, Freemium, Captive, and Crowdsource for a given business. 15. Go-To-Market - Develop a go-to-market strategy and pick the right product messaging and positioning for customer acquisition. 16. P&L Management - Build financial literacy to read, analyze and make decisions around financial statements like cash flow, P&L, and balance sheets. 17. Pricing - Build pricing, revenue, and financial business models for new business ideas. 18. Business Storytelling - Communicate with Confidence and influence others through better Storytelling. 19. Better Negotiator - Win more in high stakes negotiations - with exec mgmt team, with customers, with peers. 20. Team Building - Build stronger people skills - managing high performers, coaching for excellence, and stakeholder management. 21. Negotiation and Conflict Management - Master the art of win-win: Learn conflict resolution strategies to transform disagreements into collaborative problem-solving opportunities. 22. Influence without Authority - Build strategic relationships Develop strong connections that increase your credibility and influence within your network. 23. Executive Presence - Learn strategies to project leadership and build relationships in a hybrid work environment, including mastering virtual communication. 24. Facilitation Skills - Craft clear agendas, utilize engaging activities, and navigate different personalities to ensure productive and engaging sessions. 25. Value Proposition Design - Customer Discovery, Problem Discovery, Value Proposition, Problem-Solution Fit 26. Product Labs - Turn product ideas into reality - Validate, launch, and iterate with agility.
About Institute of Product Leadership:
Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) is a leading Executive Education provider, that helps professionals upskill and re-skill through programs that are highly experiential in nature and emphasizes learning by doing. IPL designs and delivers programs in 21st-century skills like Product Management, Data Science and Analytics, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface Design, Strategy, and Leadership. Thousands of professionals have harnessed our programs to achieve their goals in career transition and Acceleration.
