Product Mindset

Going Digital-Climbing the Right Wall in Your
Product or Solution. Platform and API Economy
brief introduction.
What is really going digital in
todays age and time. CASE is a
strategy the automobile industry
is adopting to stay ahead of the
game.
9:30 am –
10:00 am
Exercise on Business Model Canvass on
Arriving at the Value Proposition
Activity to identify various
quadrants of the BMC and
understand how one needs to
know the essentials of whom to
cater to when you start to define
your value proposition. It is ok to
fail on paper than fail on a real-life
project wasting time, money and
resources. A vital skill before
starting any initiative.
10:00 am –
10:30 am
Product Management why is important than
Project Management.
Univ of California abolished the
Project Management Course and
instead plugged the lean and
product management course in
their curriculum.
10:00 am –
10:45 am
Exercise on Identifying the differences
between Product and Project Management.
Random Phrases and where they
fall into (Project / Product)
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.30 to 11.30 Thinking Products whilst building Services or
part of a services industry. Journey of AWS
detailed on how they dominated the retail biz.
How does one acquire a product
mindset, basic principles of
product mindset, PLM and how to
achieve more with less? Concept
of a continuum while articulating
Value chains and how to avoid
silos.
12.00 – 12.30 Activity – Create a Bouquet of Services Concept of productizing services in
a given work environment.
12.30 – 1.30 Break
1.30 – 2.15 Innovation & Design Thinking Innovation & Design thinking and
their increasing relevance on why
defining the right problem to solve
is becoming important in the age
of digital disruption.
2.15 – 2.45 Sandbox Activity Around Innovation exercise around an
organization pain point and
2.45 – 3.00 Break
3.00 – 3.30 Link between Agile, Lean and Design Thinking. Why, How, What and With What
drawing up work to be done using
these standard ways of thinking.
3.30 – 4.00 Exercise on Design Thinking and using it to
solve complex, big hairy wicked problems.
Using Design thinking to crack
what can be construed as a
complex problem within the
Network Ops team by drawing
personas and their likes and
dislikes and creating the blueprint
for solutioning.
4.00 – 4.30 Systems Thinking and using it to create holistic
solutions.
Overview of what Systems
Thinking involves and why it is
crucial to look at all perspectives
before solutioning and not narrow
down on a particular way of doing.
4.30 – 5.15 Activity on Systems Thinking for trouble
shooting Network Operations Team Issues.
Trouble shooting network
operations using Causal loops to
understand system dynamics and
how to inter relate concepts and
cause and effect.