Product Management Guidance services provided by NPiPE
NPiPE is a hands-on sparring partner to leadership teams in need of pragmatic, high-impact actions with short lead time in response of concrete, strategic challenges within product management.
Examples of strategic initiatives with a limited scope that NPiPE can support to create value for product companies within a relatively short timeframe:
Re-focusing of product and project portfolio
Rationalize
product portfolio
Optimize the product portfolio to achieve the desired balance between strategic business value and total cost.
We can partner up with you to identify products to phase out and product projects to cancel, accelerate or start.
What we do
Map and scrutinize existing product and project portfolio, define criteria for prioritization and evaluate alternatives, make action plan for phase out of products and replanning of product projects.
Enhanced, focused management of
project portfolio
Optimize the management of goals and resource allocation for product projects to maximize business value with existing resources across the portfolio.
We can partner up with you to define a clear, effective format for how leadership can initiate, steer, support, follow up and review the product projects.
What we do
Define and implement strengthened project format, project roles and ways of working with impactful governance. Coach leadership teams on what to request and pay attention to.
Smart approach to digitalization and management of product data
Generate value from existing product data with limited effort
Leverage existing, partly flawed product data in the best possible way, without costly efforts and extensive timelines.
We can partner up with you to manage prioritized product data to make it good enough and available for systematic analysis.
What we do
Map and analyze existing product data, prioritize where to apply pragmatic and simplified product data management approach, evaluate alternatives, make action plan and support implementation.
Right focus on the digitalization
journey
Ensure the right focus for an ongoing digitalization of product data management while enabling effective utilization of AI tools.
We can partner up with you to articulate clear strategic and prioritized requirements for digitalization transformation moving forward.
What we do
Review ongoing digitalization, evaluate future possibilities and ways of working, prioritize requirements based on company business objectives, limitations and possibilities.
Effective Steering & Execution of strategic product development
Many smaller and mid-sized product companies have an ad-hoc rather than a continuous need to define, develop, launch and maintain new products. With an infrequent need, or if the nature of each new product differs a lot, it may not make sense to build in-house capability and competence to manage new product development specifically.
We can partner up with you to guide you through steering and execution of a specific New Product Development & Launch to cover the full product lifecycle according to NAVIGATOR:9, the NPiPE framework for Product Excellence Capability. Our services will be customized to your specific company needs and product scope.
Set the strategic direction for the new product together with your team
Clarify value proposition of new product over full lifecycle, must-haves and nice-to-haves, business case & key targets, key risks to manage and overall timing for execution
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Initiate & Plan
Identify key stakeholders to involve in governance of the execution and launch, secure relevant and realistic planning, right people to coordinate and do the work, budget, establish lean format to track progress
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Identify key enablers for efficient execution
e.g. organizational accountability, mindset to manage change, data availability and digital tools for efficient execution and relevant tracking of progress
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Development & Launch of new product
Perform steering and execution of product delivery according to plan
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Product management after launch
Clarify product lifecycle management to secure product value over time, and summarize learnings to capture improvement opportunities for the future
NPiPE partners with product companies to achieve top Product Excellence Capability