Product Strategy

Discover, Develop, Manage, and Market Products as a Business

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April 30, 2024

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2 months, online
4-6 hours per week

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US$2,850 US$2,622 and get US$285 off with a referral

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Discover a Growth-Oriented Approach to Product Strategy

Sustainable business growth is built on forward-looking, consumer-based strategies that encompass the entire product life cycle. However, developing effective product strategies requires a broad knowledge of relevant principles and frameworks — and the experience to put them into practice. Product management professionals must be able to identify and assess new opportunities, choose the right business models, manage partnerships, and change course at a moment’s notice.

Led by Professor Mohanbir Sawhney, a global thought leader in modern marketing, business innovation, and enterprise analytics, the Product Strategy program from Kellogg Executive Education gives you the opportunity to be a part of a structured learning experience that offers essential knowledge of the field and a definitive framework for developing, implementing, and communicating product strategies that drive value and growth for today’s organizations. Firsthand experience with proven approaches and peer learning and knowledge sharing opportunities will prepare you to create impactful product strategies that help differentiate your organization and your career.

Key Takeaways

  • Analyze new product opportunities to arrive at ‘go’ or ‘no-go’ conclusions efficiently
  • Assess the pros and cons of various business models including SaaS and pivot to another business model when your current one isn’t delivering growth
  • Develop a go-to-market strategy using the 7-Elements Framework
  • Create buyer personas, positioning, and messaging based on proprietary tools from the Kellogg School of Management
  • Learn from real-world custom case studies and examples based on the faculty’s own consulting experience with top tech firms such as Microsoft, AT&T, Salesforce.com, and Meta
  • Create agile requirements grounded in the ‘jobs-to-be-done’ framework, user stories, and epics
  • Manage partner ecosystems and learn how to create win-win partnerships

Who Is This Program For?

  • Business managers who are involved at any point in a product’s life cycle
  • Leaders directly responsible for product or portfolio strategy
  • Cross-functional teams and collaborators in indirect roles, including sales, marketing, operations, finance, or R&D
  • Professionals who want to make technology a competitive differentiator for their companies, even if the vertical market is not tech
  • New product managers and professionals taking on a more formal product management role

Participants come from a wide range of industries that include:

  • Pure-play technology companies, including software, hardware, electronics, networking, and e-commerce
  • Industrial products companies, including consumer durables, medical equipment and devices, automotive, construction, and agricultural
  • Tech-intensive services firms, including banking/fintech, law firms, IT services, and consultancies

Program Modules

Over the course of eight weeks, you will discover leading product marketing techniques and strategy best practices that you can leverage for successful product development and product management through the entire life cycle and optimize growth for your organization in today’s digital landscape.

Module 1:

Understanding Product Strategy

Discover why it is critical to have an effective product strategy, its benefits and how strategy may vary across different types of organizations. Then, identify the building blocks of product strategy and learn to develop one using the V2MOM framework.

Module 2:

Analyzing Product Opportunities

Learn proven approaches for identifying and evaluating new product opportunities, including Jobs-to-Be-Done and Real-Win-Worth It, and discover how value gaps can reveal high-value opportunities.

Module 3:

Discovery and Requirements Definition

Develop an in-depth understanding of design best practices you can follow to solve customer problems, including discovery hypotheses and Minimum Viable Product.

Module 4:

Designing the Business Model

Find out why business models matter, identify important considerations, and learn how to select the right one. Then, understand when it is time to adjust your approach.

Module 5:

Agile Product Development

Learn the essentials of agile development and understand its advantages and drawbacks. Then, take a closer look at the Scrum framework and other agile methods and understand their applications.

Module 6:

Taking Products to Market

Learn how to identify and understand your key audiences and choose the most appropriate route(s) to market using buyer personas, go-to-market plans, and product launch best practices.

Module 7:

Managing the Partner Ecosystem

Understand the essentials of the whole offer and learn how to provide end-to-end product value for your customers. Then, discover how having the right partnerships can contribute to your product’s success.

Module 8:

Managing Product Evolution and Growth

Learn how to build on the strengths of your existing strategies to drive new growth through ongoing product management, growth hacking, product road maps, and product line decision-making.

Module 1:

Understanding Product Strategy

Discover why it is critical to have an effective product strategy, its benefits and how strategy may vary across different types of organizations. Then, identify the building blocks of product strategy and learn to develop one using the V2MOM framework.

Module 5:

Agile Product Development

Learn the essentials of agile development and understand its advantages and drawbacks. Then, take a closer look at the Scrum framework and other agile methods and understand their applications.

Module 2:

Analyzing Product Opportunities

Learn proven approaches for identifying and evaluating new product opportunities, including Jobs-to-Be-Done and Real-Win-Worth It, and discover how value gaps can reveal high-value opportunities.

Module 6:

Taking Products to Market

Learn how to identify and understand your key audiences and choose the most appropriate route(s) to market using buyer personas, go-to-market plans, and product launch best practices.

Module 3:

Discovery and Requirements Definition

Develop an in-depth understanding of design best practices you can follow to solve customer problems, including discovery hypotheses and Minimum Viable Product.

Module 7:

Managing the Partner Ecosystem

Understand the essentials of the whole offer and learn how to provide end-to-end product value for your customers. Then, discover how having the right partnerships can contribute to your product’s success.

Module 4:

Designing the Business Model

Find out why business models matter, identify important considerations, and learn how to select the right one. Then, understand when it is time to adjust your approach.

Module 8:

Managing Product Evolution and Growth

Learn how to build on the strengths of your existing strategies to drive new growth through ongoing product management, growth hacking, product road maps, and product line decision-making.

Applied Learning Opportunity

Gain hands-on experience in the concepts and frameworks you have learned through a series of application exercises that are designed to help you make an immediate impact on your organization’s product strategy.

Industry Examples

Through real-world case studies and industry examples, you will discover how leading companies put theory into practice.

Apple

How Apple uses the Razor-Razorblade business model to capitalize on the revenue from applications and services associated with its core product, the iPhone.

Microsoft

How Microsoft’s Surface Pro set a new standard in the two-in-one laptop market.

Uber

How applying Uber's on-demand marketplace model to other industries, such as dermatology, might translate to success.

Cisco

How tapping into the voice of the customer led to an entirely new business segment for Cisco ―- voice-over-IP solutions.

Note: All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

Participant Testimonials

Tulasi Vijaya Kumar Thulluru wearing a blue shirt

Completed my Product Strategy course from Kellogg. The last few months have been action-packed and inquisitive with insightful learning sessions, assignments, boundaryless and timezone agnostic interactions with Professor Sawhney, Program Leaders, and peers at Kellogg!

— Tulasi Vijaya Thulluru, Senior Product Manager

Sovdeep Das smiling wearing a green t-shirt

Thank you Kellogg Management School for the amazing program and delivery. Enjoyed the classes by Prof. Mohanbir Shawney and all the assignments and webinars. Feel a bit accomplished and happy to share the completion certificate.

— Sovdeep Das, Director, Product

Francesc Gonzalez smiling

Very satisfied to have received high-quality training from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Prof. Mohanbir Sawhney. My gratitude also to all the Program Leaders Team. Enriching experience with highly practical and valuable content focused on the product as a whole and its entire life cycle.

— Francesc Gonzalez, Analyst Manager

Portrait image of Navneet Sachdeva

Based on recommendations, I enrolled and finished Product Strategy Certificate from Kellogg. It was quite an undertaking. Learned not only new terminology such as wire framing and MVP development, but also learned to use new tools (Balsamiq, Trello, etc.). I couldn't have asked for a better final assignment than to develop a strategic and product roadmap for Medication Adherence enhancing medical device ALWINE. I had the chance to use the pharmacist and the strategist in me for the assignment. These skills and tools will definitely be put to use for enhancing and developing Clinical Services Products in my current role. Highly recommend Mohanbir Sawhney. He is extremely talented in explaining complex concepts in an effective way using real-life examples.

— Navneet Sachdeva , Director

A few months ago, I realized it's time to expand my education around strategic decision making. Luckily, I received a wonderful recommendation on this excellent product strategy course by Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. This has been such an enriching and educational experience, and I gained a whole spectrum of new skills that would certainly follow me throughout my career. Now, it's my turn to pass the recommendation. If you're interested in professional education around product strategy - this is a great resource.

— Shir Zalzberg, Senior Manager, UI/UX

Portrait image of Lim Yi against a white background

On top of the pre-recorded lectures, there were "live" webinars with Prof Sawhney, office hours with very experienced Course Leaders, Tami Reiss, Ray Choi, Juan Tenaillon, Shobhit Chugh , participation in discussion board and recommended readings. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is keen to gain a comprehensive, all-round knowledge of product strategy. I am looking forward to putting what I have learned to use for Foundations.

— Lim Yi, Partner

Program Faculty

Mohanbir Sawhney

Associate Dean for Digital Innovation; McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Research in Technology and Innovation

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. His most recent book, The Sentient Enterprise: The Evolution of Business Decision Making, was published in October 2017... More info

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Upon successful completion of the program, Kellogg Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants. This program is graded as a pass or fail; participants must receive 80% to pass and obtain the certificate of completion.

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Note: This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from Kellogg School of Management.

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    Are there any prerequisites for this program?

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    Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English and proficiency in English is required.


    What is the typical class profile?

    More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography — leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.


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    We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities including:



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    The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on program activities.


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    More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 percent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programs said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.

    All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the program delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the program in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.

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    This program is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.


    What type of certificate will I receive?

    Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, resume, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
    The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.


    Can I get the hard copy of the certificate?

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    Do I receive alumni status after completing this program?

    No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.


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    You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.

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    Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.

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