The Product Manager's Handbook 4/E The Product Manager's Handbook 4/E

The Product Manager's Handbook 4/E

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Publisher Description

The essential guide to seamless product management for today’s fluid, unpredictable business world

Long considered the most useful and insightful guide of its kind, The Product Manager’s Handbook has been fully revised and updated to give you the edge in today’s challenging business landscape. It features expanded coverage of product development processes, intelligence-gathering techniques (including social media), and a greater emphasis on international issues.

This indispensable resource proves that the techniques and tools product managers use are similar—regardless of what industry they work in and what kind of products they manage. Simply put, this book has everything you need for superior job performance—whether you manage consumer or business-to-business products created by an organization that is hierarchical or horizontal.

The Product Manager’s Handbook shows you how to integrate your organization’s disparate segments into a cooperative, results-focused unit that produces satisfying products—from initial design through the postpurchase experience. If your job is to create and commercialize products, it provides the information you need to:
Balance breakthroughs and line extensions

Create business cases—including competitive assessment, market requirements, and risk reduction

Conduct gate reviews and beta testing and manage scope creep

Get everything in order for a smooth product launch




For those who manage existing lines, this guide provides:
Specific tips for each of the 4Rs of product life-cycle management

Brand guidelines

Approaches to customer message management

Advice on working with sales and the channel




Clear, easy-to-read charts show you how to manage each crucial step from conception to completion, and practical checklists help you evaluate progress at every stage. Interviews with seasoned product management consultants and top-performing product managers provide you with dynamic, proven strategies for addressing potential problems in marketing, production, cross-cultural communication, and more.

The Product Manager’s Handbook examines current market-leading companies, the latest research findings, and evolving customer perceptions to provide you with the tools you need to design, produce, and market winning products—and beat the competition at every turn.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2011
September 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
McGraw Hill LLC
SELLER
McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC
SIZE
13
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