Product Strategy and Innovation

An innovation product strategy is a plan to grow market share or profits through product and service innovation. When looking at innovation strategy, it is important to realize that an effective strategy must correctly inform which job executor, job, and segment to target to achieve the most growth, and which unmet needs to fulfil to help customers get the job done better. Also, when it comes to creating the solution, an innovation strategy must indicate whether a product improvement, or a disruptive or breakthrough innovation approach is best. This course provides participants with a full understanding of product strategies and design thinking approaches to help them come up with products that fit customer requirements and aspirations. Business models will be also examined to make things happen along with customer experience (CX) to validate product innovation initiatives and optimize customer expectations.

The course employs a wide array of templates, group exercises, workshops, and relevant videos to help participants acquire and apply the right competencies necessary to design and implement a full product strategy using design thinking.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Examine all aspects of Product Strategy, and the factors influencing all the stages involved in a successful product strategy to optimize results.
• Explore the importance of Design Thinking and its role to create innovative products based on customers’ needs and requirements.
• Identify different business models relevant to product innovation to ensure successful launches and expected Return on Investment (ROI).
• Explain the New Product Development process (NPD) and how it is applied to have a consistent framework for launching new products and ensuring effective commercialization.
• Prepare customer personas and customer journey maps to measure satisfaction and feelings at the pre- and post-purchase stages of acquiring products.

The course will be of value to a wide range of marketing, PR, product owners, communications, sales, and operations professionals. It also benefits professionals keen to understand the importance and role of product strategies and innovation and how these can be designed and implemented to ensure revenue growth.

• Jobs-to-be-done techniques
• Product discovery
• Product opportunities identification
• Business models   
• Journey mapping
• Creating customer and employee personas
• Design thinking process