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Northwestern Kellogg - Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management
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Overview

Efficiently manage the end-to-end product life cycle and deliver business success with the Kellogg edge

Duration

36 weeks

Total fee

2.81 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Northwestern Kellogg - Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management
 at 
Emeritus 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Northwestern Kellogg
  • EMI option available
  • Get job placement assistance after completion the course
  • Get an access to Emeritus' Career Services Job Portal
  • Case Studies on Whirlpool Gladiator GarageWorks, Pareto Intelligence, Amazon Kindle Fire Phone etc
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Northwestern Kellogg - Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management
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Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For mid to senior-level professionals with over eight years of work experience
  • For professionals making a lateral career move from an adjacent field such as sales, marketing etc
What are the course deliverables?
  • Master the end-to-end process of discovering, designing, developing, delivering, and managing products
  • Learn the strategic thinking and tactical implementation skills needed to become a professional product manager
  • Gain certifications in product management tools and methodologies, including project management, A/B testing (Optimizely), and analytics (Google Analytics)
  • Hone your communication, negotiation, and influence skills to effectively manage people and relationships
  • Apply frameworks and tools to develop a start-to-finish product marketing plan
More about this course
  • Developing and managing a product throughout the lifecycle has become increasingly complex and amplified by ever-expanding customer expectations and evolving technology
  • Build and manage a product roadmap through user research, prototyping, and product analysis to deliver the most commercial impact with UX Design, Agile Methodology, and Data Science and Analytics
  • This program is designed to prepare experienced professionals to build and manage a product roadmap through user research, prototyping, and product analysis

Northwestern Kellogg - Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management
 at 
Emeritus 
Curriculum

Introduction to Product Management

Define the characteristics of a product strategy

Differentiate the application of product strategies across industries

Determine the vision, values, mission, obstacles, and methods (V2MOM) for a company, business, or product

Identify the skills required to be a successful product manager

Customer Insights for Product Innovation

Articulate the nature and source of customer insights

Utilize customer insight tools to transform insights into action

Conduct customer research for a specific product

Analyzing Product Opportunities

Analyze product opportunities using the Jobs-to-Be-Done (JTBD) framework

Define key points of finding product opportunities using the JTBD framework

Utilize the R-W-W framework to assess product opportunities

Product Discovery and Requirements Definition

Apply the discovery hypothesis framework, and build a wireframe

Create high-level user stories

Define the buyer personal

Business Model Design

Analyze an existing pricing strategy

Evaluate SaaS and marketplace models

Determine the best business model for your product or service

Financial Analysis for Product Managers

Assess the economics of a SaaS business

Conduct NPV and IRR analyses for a product

Determine approaches to product pricing

UI/UX Design for Product Managers

Understand the basics of UX design

Create a wireframe for the user experience

Learn to utilize wireframing tools (Balsamiq)

Agile Product Development

Describe key components of the Agile method of product development

Define the principles of Agile development and Agile methodologies

Understand the principles of Scrum

Utilize the Scaled Agile Framework

Product Planning and Roadmapping

Utilize product planning tools to develop a product roadmap

Describe the required components of a product roadmap

Articulate how to link business strategy to product development

Product Prototyping

Understand the concept of prototyping and its importance

Differentiate between different prototypes (Alpha, Beta, Pilot)

Learn best practices in prototyping

Taking Products to Market

Choose the best route to market by analyzing your audiences

Define the primary value proposition for a product

Discuss best practices for product launches

Define the elements of a GTM strategy

Business Communication for Product Managers

Differentiate between internal and external communication skills

Learn the fundamentals of storytelling

Learn how to communicate effectively, run productive meetings, and deal with difficult situations as a product manager

Managing the Partner Ecosystem

Define the elements of the whole offer and perform a gap analysis

Analyze the whole offer of a company to make it better

Describe how to design and manage partnerships effectively

Managing Product Evolution and Growth

Use the key lessons from this program to create a strategic roadmap for a business

Discuss the effectiveness of growth-hacking techniques

Select the correct strategy to drive revenue growth

Growth Hacking

Tap into the growth-hacker mindset

Develop and refine growth-hacking skills and strategies

Describe best practices in growth hacking

Data Science and Analytics for Product Managers

Learn about various model evaluation metrics

Gain an overview of analytics tools and platforms

AI and ML for Product Managers

Understand the methodologies and concepts of AI and ML

Design a data strategy and testing plan to improve business outcomes

Become familiar with AI/ML platforms and tools

Managing Stakeholder Relationships

Learn the required skills to lead a product team

Articulate how to lead effectively without authority

Learn how to manage conflict and remote teams

Product Management for Services Companies

Determine the scalability of products versus services

Learn the development process for services and how it differs from the development process for products

Capstone Project

Create a product management plan for developing a product and taking it to market

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Northwestern Kellogg - Post Graduate Certificate in Product Management
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Faculty details

Mohanbir Sawhney
Professor Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, consultant, and speaker in business innovation, modern marketing, and enterprise analytics. He has written seven management books, as well as dozens of influential articles in leading academic journals and managerial publications.
Tamara Sanderson - UX/UI Design Lead
Tamara has lived as an expat for nearly nine years and visited 70 countries, all while working at Google, Automattic, and Oliver Wyman. She has approached her career with the same explorer mentality, with nearly 15 years of experience in roles ranging from management consulting to private equity, partnerships and now design.
Steven Benario - Product Manager
Steven is a Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks, an industry-leading cybersecurity provider. In his 12+ years in Product, he has worked with a broad swath of companies including Microsoft, AOL, Pivotal Labs, Tenable, Electronic Arts, and several early-stage startups. T
Tami Reiss - Product Strategy Leader
Tami Reiss is a product strategy leader with 15+ years of experience helping startups, established enterprise companies, and community profit organizations define their product strategy and set up product organizations for scale. She has worked with countless companies and organizations to set strong strategies for growth and specializes in B2B SaaS

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Other: Building a product development plan for the Capstone scenario and case studies of different companies were the best parts of this program for me
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Other: I am so glad I signed up for this program. Professor Sawhney's lectures were very crisp, and the way he introduced real-life examples helped to understand the concepts better
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