Product Thinking for Organisations

Overview

In a changing business landscape, software and technology are massively impacting the products and services offered to customers. How can an organisation evolve and sustain its business to meet the growing expectations of its customers? Product Thinking aims to create long-term scalable product solutions by balancing customer-centricity, business considerations, and technical constraints.

Product Thinking for Organisations (PTO) is a foundational programme that introduces mindsets, techniques, and organisational structures that enable organisations to build better products. In contrast to traditional project management approaches, this programme aims to facilitate practices that help businesses and tech organisations transform to a culture characterised by strategic long-term ownership and business outcomes.  

Complementing other courses that focus on the tangible day-to-day responsibilities of the product manager, this 2-day programme will equip learners with actionable strategies to evolve their organisation into an agile environment grounded in product thinking principles.

This programme is part of the Digital Products & Platforms series offered by NUS-ISS.

Key Takeaways

• Learn to identify and apply suitable techniques, processes and tools in product thinking for your environment, with a focus on digital enablers for the product
• Learn to define digital product processes
• Learn how to lead and manage product development teams

Who Should Attend

• Please refer to the job roles section.
• Product Owners, Programme Managers, Project Managers, and IT Managers who are keen to promote product-thinking culture and define collaborative processes to enable product management and innovation efforts in their organisations.
• Teams from traditional business and tech organisations undergoing business transformation and seeking to incorporate product thinking mindset and culture into their future state. As product thinking is founded upon cross-functional collaboration, this course would benefit any strategic leaders, technologists, and business/project stakeholders, such as PMO, Marketing, Sales, who are involved in the design and implementation of products and services.

• This is an intensive, foundation course.  Participants with some prior years of experience working with different functional teams in an organisation delivering products and services will benefit more from the course.
• Participants also need to have a strong interest in product management concepts, managing product teams and product design processes/techniques. It is also highly relevant to Programme and Project managers looking to expanding their skills to product management.
• NUS-ISS also offers a range of other basic courses in various aspects of product management for participants new to it.

What To Bring

You must bring your internet-enabled computing devices (laptops, tablet etc) with power chargers to access and download programme materials. No printed copies of programme materials are issued. Please refer to the full tech specifications here.