Wednesday, 17 June 2015

The Benefits Of Product Management Training

By Freida Michael


New or existing products need on-going attention to thrive in a competitive world. The role of product management training is clear. It enables key employees to focus on branding and promotion in keeping with trends. As such, it encompasses many areas of marketing. Taking into consideration a products history and future, it moves sales forward into the present.

Merchandize management involves many stages and is present in every step of the merchandize's journey. First, it starts with a vision. Merchandize developers, with the use of research and data, envision a merchandize that can fill a void in the market, which can answer a customer's need. After concretizing the vision, merchandize engineers will convene how to create the merchandize. These engineers must know a product's past if it has been offered before. They must know the product's strength and weaknesses as reflected in sales. They must improve the weakness and strengthen the strengths even more.

After the vision passes the scrutiny of the board, manufacturers will convene to make the merchandize according to its supposed function. They must not make it too similar to other products else the company will be sued. By knowing the merchandize's vision, they can create it to highlight its strength. Various tests will be applied to ensure its quality and market preparedness.

After it has been manufactured, it has to be introduced to the public. The marketing department will do this task. They will create campaigns again reflecting the vision for the merchandize. After its introduction, the company must monitor the data to know the receptiveness of the market. What are the product's weaknesses and points for improvement? If a company decides to kill a merchandize, a substitute must be born. It is a never-ending cycle.

In a merchandize's lifecycle, different people with different expertise come together, all are aiming for the success of the merchandize. However, the reality is although they all want the same goal, their ways towards it are different. Through training together, it opens one department to the vision and the way of the other team. This opens the eyes of everyone involved to the many possibilities of accomplishing their goal.

Other related teams in the company may interact with product management, especially when critical issues arise or added input is needed. Packaging may come from other sources. The teams do not always agree in principle. Perhaps the art department presents an image the main team does not like. Changes will then be requested and compliance must be ensured. It is a complex open-ended process that thrives on mutual collaboration.

Team training encompasses basic phases. A company will have a preferred method so it is not a matter of personal choice. It may take place during or after regular office hours in a secluded room with no interruptions allowed. Hands on exercises and sharing of research form the components of most sessions. Internet research will supplement classroom instruction.

Learning will not only be the by-product of the training. Through it, each team will appreciate the task of other teams. Misunderstandings will be cleared up because they will know each team's goal and rationale. All are of course for the product's good. Merchandize development will be faster and smoother if everyone knows the complexity of the process.




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