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　　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.

Linda Gorchels serves on the Executive Education faculty of the

University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. She is the

author or coauthor of several business books, including The Product

Manager’s Field Guide and The Manager’s Guide to Distribution

Channels. Gorchels has provided corporate training for global

organizations including Nokia, Siemens, Metso Automation, and

others. She lives in Madison, WI.

Section One: Bedrock Concepts

Chapter 1. The multi-faceted nature of product management jobs and structure

a. Your job is unique ' but you're not alone

b. Product management can work for services, too!

Chapter 2. Leadership and management competencies

a. Change management

b. Surviving matrix structures and cross-functional teams

c. Tips to improve decision making

Chapter 3. Business competencies

a. Basic financial concepts

b. Assembling forecasts

c. Running a 'virtual' business

Chapter 4. Market knowledge competencies: fact capturing

a. Trend-spotting, research and customer segmentation

b. Describing the customer purchase process, personas and value chain

c. Competitive intelligence briefings

d. Technology assessment and design thinking

Chapter 5. Planning frameworks

a. The product manager continuum: from upstream to downstream

b. Introduction to portfolios

c. Innovation, revitalization, protection and sunsetting

Section Two: Upstream product management: Strategic new products & initiatives

Chapter 6. Roadmaps, strategic plans and innovation directives

a. Visualizing the future: three time horizons

b. Time management of the pipeline

c. Making buy, build or partner decisions

Chapter 7. Managing the fuzzy front end of new product processes

a. Balancing breakthroughs and incremental changes

b. Defining current and future customer need-drivers

c. Generic NPD processes and stage-gates

Chapter 8. Creating ' and getting approval for ' business cases

a. Understanding the importance of the business case

b. Estimating and validating demand

c. Requirements planning, management and clarification of feasibility

d. Framing and justifying the investment

e. The provisional marketing plan

Chapter 9. Overseeing new product projects

a. Attributes and responsibilities of core teams

b. Team decisions and processes

c. Managing scope creep

d. Guiding gate reviews and readiness to move to each level

e. Improving beta programs

Chapter 10. Formulating and executing launch plans

a. The major components of the launch document & process

b. Incorporating belief builders

c. Building in early tracking measures

d. Preparing red alert strategies

e. The final analysis: project and process reviews

Section Three: Downstream product management: Marketing and ongoing support

Chapter 11. Generating brand equity

a. Cultivating brands and positioning from the outside in

b. Brand elements, structure and strategy

Chapter 12. Lifecycle management and marketing

a. Categorizing products for streamlined efforts

b. Defensive and offensive considerations

c. Revitalization programs: product versioning

d. Revitalization programs: refocused marketing schema

e. Right-pricing your products

Chapter 13. Supporting sales and channel efforts

a. Lead generation, referrals, and collateral

b. Call support, demos and presentations

c. Converting product marketing plans into sales calls

Chapter 14. Marketing communications, SEO and social networking

a. Who should write the copy and what should it say

b. From broadcast to narrowcast approaches

c. Make the message resonate with the right customers

d. Manage the sales funnel

Chapter 15. Sunsetting

a. Defining kill criteria: the "Cockroach" problem

b. Evaluating alternative approaches for product elimination

Section Four: Fine-tuning

Chapter 16. Establishing a global mindset

a. Global versus multi-local products: decision points> b. When product development is handled in another country

c. Working with cross-cultural co-workers on project teams

d. Communicating across borders and cultures

Chapter 17. Goal and performance alignment

a. Linking goals, directives and initiatives

b. Defining appropriate product manager performance measures

c. Coaching toward proficiency

In 1995, I was frustrated with the lack of resources available for a product manager. After conducting extensive research, and coupling it with my own experience, I wrote my first book, The Product Manager's Handbook. Since then I have written two more books (including one on Channels) and the original Product Manager's Handbook is now in its third edition with translations into several languages.

People often ask me what I do for a living now. Well, as an employee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I do two primary things. First, I teach on the Executive Education faculty (part of the Wisconsin School of Business). Second, I manage the curriculum of marketing courses for corporate managers and professionals, including design, development, marketing, teaching and staffing of the classes.

In my "extended" career, I write, consult and collaborate on a variety of topics with a special… Read more

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This is 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; and, 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 that show you how to manage each crucial step from conception to completion; and, practical checklists that 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.