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Product Management Today
Digital product management is an emerging discipline that extends the scope of the traditional product manager’s role. It embraces design principles and quantitative insights to inform product vision, direction, trade-off decisions and differentiating customer experiences.
Today, two out of three product management initiatives are disconnected from business strategy. Recent Gartner research reveals that only 16% of product managers use their defined product strategy to inform key decisions. Most organisations overinvest in product management execution at the expense of strategy, design and quantitative analysis.
“The majority of CEOs expect to change business models in the next two years, and by 2024, 80% of IT organisations will undergo radical restructuring to their missions as they embrace product-centric operating models,” said Mr Van Dam. “This will require product managers to fundamentally rethink how value is perceived, created and consumed.”
Maturing the Digital Product Management Discipline
Gartner identified five main capabilities required of digital product management to drive business model change and improve product success:
1. Make decisions grounded in data
2. Design products and services with a customer experience mindset
3. Differentiate products and services by exploiting all digital-technology-based opportunities
4. Build into existing product management approaches the impact of technical and business disruptions
5. Deliver products and services through innovative digital channels
By 2023, 35% of product management teams will acknowledge having implemented digital product management and the five critical digital capabilities, from less than 2% in 2019.
“Innovation is no longer about product development creating the product that the rest of the organisation supports in the market,” said Mr Van Dam. “Instead, many departments and factors contribute to the creation and delivery of the product every day.”
