The ideal companion to the author's bestselling The Product Manager's Handbook, The Product Manager's Field Guide expands upon the overview and the responsibilities of product managers and delves into specific skills, abilities, and competencies to help them improve their performance. It provides readers with tools and exercises for functions such as marketing, planning, forecasting, and new product development and offers step-by-step instructions for activities designed to monitor and assess product-planning efforts.

The Product Manager's Field Guide : Practical Tools, Exercises, and Resources for Improved Product Management

Business & Money

Gorchels, Linda

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Channel management has become one of the most important components of a firm's competitive strategy, with mistakes often costing companies millions--and channel managers their careers. The Manager's Guide to Distribution Channels provides managers and decision makers with proven tools and go-to-market strategies for refining channel strategies and managing distribution relationships. Self-assessment tools combine with realworld cases and examples to give managers a nontheoretical, balanced blend of thought-provoking insights and hands-on tactics.

The Manager's Guide to Distribution Channels

West, Chuck

Marien, Edward J.

Industries

Revised and updated techniques to achieve top performance in product management The Product Manager's Handbook takes the mystery out of this field by detailing how to integrate aspects from production and coordination to value maximization into a cohesive whole, while examining key international issues, new technologies, and the financial side of product management.

The Product Managers Handbook, 3E

Forget “business as usual.” Don’t believe everything you read about “best practices.” There is no “magic bullet.” When your market changes, you have to change your strategy and take control of your own success. You have to renew your business model. In a global market that is constantly evolving, you can’t expect “magic bullets” or “best practices”―or any stand-alone business philosophy that many books and gurus offer―to guide your company through good times and bad. Instead you need to take an active role in reviewing and retooling your strategies. You need to stop thinking “business as usual.” You need Business Model Renewal―a groundbreaking book that provides a language and multiple frameworks for how to think about and implement business model reinvention. A full-range guide to synthesizing and applying the most up-to-date thinking in business today, Business Model Renewal challenges you to re-evaluate your methods, rethink your options, and reignite your organization. Constantly challenging the mindset of “tried and true” numbers-based solutions such as market share, financials, and metrics, Gorchels integrates both traditional concepts and cutting-edge ideas to avoid the usual “one size fits all” approach that can stifle a company’s growth. You’ll learn how to build a custom-made business model that encompasses the totality of how your company produces value―including design, infrastructure, culture, operations, and more. You’ll learn how to adapt to newest emerging technologies, how to cope with the biggest market fluctuations, how to serve the latest demographic shifts, and how to plan ahead for your company’s future. Envisioning business model renewal efforts drives leaders and managers to deal with the ambiguity of future thinking. Shifts in technology, market needs, and competitive arenas can never be known precisely, but must nevertheless be anticipated. Scenario planning and other group-based, collaborative efforts to study the future are therefore necessary components of business model renewal. So, too, is corporate culture, decision making, business model portfolio design, and change management. That’s why the frameworks in this book touch on all of these facets. Business Model Renewal won’t give you seven proven steps, five key principles, or even 10 irrefutable laws. But it will challenge you to do the hard work of broadening the perspectives of your firm, the ecosystem in which it exists, the role of your personal leadership, and the followership within your corporate culture.

Business Model Renewal: How to Grow and Prosper by Defying Best Practices and Reinventing Your Strategy

The Product Manager's Handbook is the essential guide to successful product management in today's fast-changing business world. Product and brand managers, as well as upper-level sales, marketing, and branding executives, will find the text thorough and informative as it explains and analyzes the product manager's role in both traditional, hierarchical organizations as well as in newer horizontal, team-driven decision-making structures. What is a product manager? The overall responsibility of a product manager is to integrate the various segments of a business into a strategically focused whole, maximizing the value of a product by coordinating the production of an offering with an understanding of market needs. A product manager must oversee all aspects of a product or service line in order to create and deliver superior customer satisfaction while simultaneously providing long-term value for the company. The Product Manager's Handbook covers all of these topics in a convenient, easy-to-follow presentation that includes: <ul>
<li>Hands-on charts for managing every key step, from concept to completion </li>
<li>Practical checklists for evaluating progress at every critical stage </li>
<li>Brief profiles in every chapter of specific product management roles, functions, and issues </li>
<li>Real-world cases illustrating the challenges of product management in action </li>
</ul>
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition fully integrates the Internet and other digital technologies into the product manager's arsenal of tools. The book includes all new information on what it takes to be a successful product manager. It explains the product manager's role in the planning process (including strategic and operational planning), how to evaluate product portfolios, how to propose and develop successful new products, and more. The product manager is frequently the source of the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation that drives a successful organization. Learn to make the most of your product management system with this indispensable reference guide.

The Product Manager's Handbook : The Complete Product Management Resource

Economics

The Product Manager's Handbook

Excel as a product manager with the keys to successful product management in traditional, hierarchical organizations as well as in newer horizontal, team-driven, decision-making structures. Provides checklists, profiles, and real-world cases that reveal how to: -- Develop strategic and annual plans -- Evaluate product portfolios -- Propose and develop successful new products -- Price products and services for maximum profit -- Produce the best marketing and communications plans -- Organize product management teams that meet and exceed their objectives

Ntc Business Books

Are you ready to skip the dizzying detail of 400-page books? Want the nitty-gritty on product management in short, readable pieces? Product Management 101 is the book one of the Product Management ShortRead Series. It covers the landscape of the job of non-software product managers. Learn what types of companies hire product managers and how to think through the application and interview process. Gain tips on firefighting and improving competencies. Consider three metaphors for the job of product manager and learn the three core principles. And don’t skip the last chapter. It contains self-reflection questions to assess how comfortable you are with common aspects of the job. It ends with recommended resources to improve your skills.

Product Management 101: Product Management ShortRead Series

Job Hunting & Careers

Independently published

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Gorchels, Linda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Gorchels, Linda