141 topics found for:

“strategic focus”

NPD

New Product Development (NPD) is the complete process of bringing a new product to market, from idea generation to commercialization. Essential for companies to innovate, stay competitive, and meet evolving customer needs through a structured approach to creating and launching new offerings.

Product Team

A cross-functional team focused on solving customer problems and achieving business outcomes, with a strong emphasis on discovery, experimentation, and continuous improvement. Crucial for creating valuable and innovative products that meet user needs and drive business success through iterative development and close collaboration with stakeholders.

Merchandising

The strategic promotion, placement, and persuasive presentation of digital products or services within an online platform to maximize sales, engagement, and user satisfaction. Important for optimizing the visibility, appeal, and persuasive impact of digital offerings, enhancing user experience, and driving conversions in online environments.

Product Brief

A document that provides a high-level overview of a product, including its objectives, target market, key features, and requirements, used to guide development efforts. Essential for ensuring that all stakeholders have a clear and consistent understanding of the product.

Yak Shaving

The process of performing a series of seemingly unrelated and often tedious tasks that are necessary to solve a larger problem. Important for recognizing and managing the indirect tasks that contribute to achieving the main objectives in digital product design.

Content Strategy

The planning, development, and management of content to meet business and user needs, ensuring consistency and effectiveness across all channels. Essential for creating cohesive and impactful content that aligns with business goals and user needs.

User Story Mapping

A visual technique used in Agile development to arrange user stories in a way that helps teams understand the user journey and prioritize work effectively. Crucial for ensuring that development efforts are aligned with user needs and priorities throughout the project.

Surrogation

The process by which a measure or metric comes to replace the underlying objective it is intended to represent, leading to distorted decision-making. Important for ensuring that metrics accurately reflect true objectives and designing systems that prevent metric manipulation.

Service Design

The practice of planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication, and material components of a service to improve its quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. Essential for creating effective and user-centered service experiences.

ROI

Return on Investment (ROI) is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency or profitability of an investment or compare the efficiency of different investments. Crucial for assessing the financial effectiveness of business decisions, projects, or initiatives.

Risk Management

The process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential threats that could impact the success of a digital product, including usability issues, technical failures, and user data security. Essential for maintaining product reliability, user satisfaction, and data protection, while minimizing the impact of potential design and development challenges.

GQM

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQM) is a framework for defining and interpreting software metrics by identifying goals, formulating questions to determine if the goals are met, and applying metrics to answer those questions. This framework is essential for measuring and improving software quality and performance.

B2B2B

Business-to-Business-to-Business (B2B2B), a business model where businesses sell products or services to other businesses that then sell them to additional businesses. Crucial for understanding multi-tiered business relationships and strategies.

AARRR

Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue (AARRR) is a metrics framework for assessing user engagement and business performance. Important for product managers to understand customer lifecycle and optimize business growth.

Weighted Scoring

A prioritization method that assigns different weights to criteria based on their importance, helping to make informed decisions and prioritize tasks effectively. Crucial for making objective and balanced decisions in project management and product development.

Commodification of Design

The process where design services and outputs become standardized and interchangeable, often leading to competition based primarily on price rather than quality or creativity. Important for understanding market trends and pressures that reduce the perceived value and uniqueness of design work, impacting pricing and differentiation strategies.