Why Choose this Training Course?
How can you take the lead and manage your products in your markets, without authority?
In B2B product management, success hinges on your ability to win support and collaboration from colleagues and stakeholders, despite lacking direct authority over them. This Product Management for Business to Business (B2B) Companies training course is designed to help you craft compelling product strategies and plans that naturally garner the backing you need for successful implementation.
You’ll learn best practices in B2B product management, gain essential tools, and adopt a market-focused mindset to effectively promote and position your products. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to create strategies that inspire support and drive your products' success in the market.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this COPEX training course, you will be able to:
- Take the Lead in Marketing your Products
- Construct a Credible Product Marketing Plan
- Adopt a More Market-focused Mind-set
- Think and Act Strategically
- Avoid Being Drawn Into Operational Issues
- Create Superior Value for Customers and Avoid Price Erosion
- Manage the Product Through its Life Cycle
Who is this Training Course for?
This COPEX training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Product Managers who Want to Control How Their Products are Marketed
- Marketing Directors who Want Their Product Managers to Think and Act Strategically
- Marketing Managers who Want to Integrate Product Marketing
- Product Development Managers who Want to Become Product Managers
- Technical Experts who Want to Become Product Managers
Course Outline
Day One: The Product Manager’s Role
- The role and challenges of a product manager
- How to deal with the sales force
- Constructing a B2B product marketing plan
- Strategic fit, corporate strategy and brand
- Defining scope and mapping market players
- Understanding the market and its drivers
Day Two: How Customers Meet their Challenges and How to Discover Value Opportunities
- Factors that impact on the market
- Stakeholders and how to prioritise them
- Understanding customers’ needs and challenges
- Profiling decision-makers
- Understanding the customers’ key success factors
- Defining gaps in the customers’ capabilities
Day Three: Targeting Competitors, Defining Key Success Factors and Market Attractiveness
- How to target competitors
- Understanding the competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
- Competitive strategies and how to compete
- Managing the customers’ perception
- Finding sustainable, profitable, competitive differential-advantage
- Analysing key success factors and capabilities
Day Four: Setting Objectives and Product Marketing Strategies
- Setting objectives and defining product strategy
- Defining target segments, customers and stakeholders
- Defining priority, importance, journey and tasks
- Creating the right product marketing mix
- Developing and managing the product portfolio - Innovation
- Discovering value and creating value propositions
- Value models that support price
Day Five: Designing the Communications, Managing the Channel, Implementing and Controlling the Plan
- Directing the communications to customers and stakeholders
- Briefing the marketing communications team
- Winning support from the sales force
- Managing channel partners
- Implementing and controlling the plan
- Verifying the plan
The Certificate
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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