University of Maryland, College Park
Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization
University of Maryland, College Park

Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization

Learn to discover, design, and deliver products that customers love.

Dr. James V. Green
Cait von Schnetlage
Michael R. Pratt

Instructors: Dr. James V. Green

Sponsored by University of Michigan

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.5

(498 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify product ideas by developing your entrepreneurial thinking, exploring competitive analysis and industry analysis, and understanding the keys to value innovation.

  • Understand the keys to successfully navigating the roles and responsibilities of being a product leader to champion change with internal and external collaborators and influencers.

  • Learn how to truly know your target customer, your customer’s underserved needs, your value proposition, your product feature set, and your user experience, then integrate this knowledge into product and market requirements and positioning plans.

  • Translate product ideas into reality by creating prototypes and minimum viable products (MVPs), as well as the financial strategies to fund their development and delivery

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Specialization - 5 course series

Developing Innovative Ideas for Product Leaders

Course 112 hours4.4 (205 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Develop the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas as a product leader

  • Foster thinking entrepreneurially with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial behavior

  • Cultivate seeing entrepreneurially with attention to industry conditions, industry status, macroeconomic change, and competition

  • Champion acting entrepreneurially with an understanding of value innovation and opportunity identification

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Strategy
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Corporate Strategy
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Product Strategy
Category: Product Management
Category: Creative Problem-Solving
Category: Creativity
Category: Innovation
Category: Market Analysis
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Competitive Intelligence
Category: Business Planning
Category: Strategic Planning
Category: Marketing
Category: Product Development
Category: Competitive Analysis
Category: Creative Thinking
Category: Market Intelligence
Category: New Product Development

Product Management Essentials

Course 26 hours4.6 (323 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Discover the roles and responsibilities of the product manager.

  • Understand how innovative product teams are organized and managed.

  • Explore marketing challenges, common marketing mistakes, knowing your customer, and rethinking the 4P's of marketing.

  • Examine how to develop customers, solve customer problems, segment markets, and expand your market.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Management
Category: Product Development
Category: Business Development
Category: Commercialization
Category: Marketing Management
Category: Marketing Strategy and Techniques
Category: Product Marketing
Category: Strategic Marketing
Category: Marketing Planning
Category: New Product Development
Category: Product Strategy
Category: Go To Market Strategy
Category: Product Roadmaps
Category: Target Market
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: Marketing Strategies
Category: Product Lifecycle Management
Category: Software Development Methodologies
Category: Business Management
Category: Business Strategy

Establishing Product-Market Fit

Course 38 hours4.5 (79 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Determine your target customer and identify their needs and wants.

  • Define your value proposition and specify your minimum viable feature set.

  • Create your minimum viable product and the user experience.

  • Test your minimum viable product and iterate to improve product-market fit.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Marketing
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Go To Market Strategy
Category: Product Development
Category: Prototyping
Category: Target Market
Category: Product Management
Category: Product Design
Category: Design and Product
Category: Customer Analysis
Category: Market Analysis
Category: User Experience
Category: Product Lifecycle Management
Category: UI/UX Research
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Product Improvement
Category: Persona Development
Category: Product Strategy
Category: Usability Testing
Category: User Experience Design

Creative Design, Prototyping, and Testing

Course 411 hours4.1 (88 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Translate product ideas into tangible assets

  • Create wireframes, 3D renderings, and prototypes

  • Develop the minimum viable product (MVP)

  • Test assumptions and validate customer interests

Skills you'll gain

Category: Design and Product
Category: Product Development
Category: Product Design
Category: User Interface (UI) Design
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Product Management
Category: Service Design
Category: Wireframing
Category: New Product Development
Category: Prototyping
Category: Industrial Design
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: Product Engineering
Category: Digital Design
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Interaction Design
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: Experience Design
Category: Design
Category: User Experience

Financial Management for Product Leaders

Course 59 hours4.5 (72 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Learn the fundamentals and how to create financial statements for new ventures within the corporate environment

  • Examine valuation techniques for understanding how to assess and grow the value of the corporate venture

  • Explore the different sources of internal and external financing for the corporate venture

  • Applying lessons learned in the course to structure a funding deal and pitch the corporate venture

Skills you'll gain

Category: Financial Management
Category: Corporate Finance
Category: Finance
Category: General Finance
Category: Capital Budgeting
Category: Business Valuation
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Project Finance
Category: Financial Statements
Category: Proposal Writing
Category: Financial Accounting
Category: General Accounting
Category: Writing
Category: Proposal Development
Category: Financial Reporting
Category: Return On Investment
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Business Writing
Category: Corporate Accounting

Instructors

Dr. James V. Green
University of Maryland, College Park
13 Courses174,153 learners
Cait von Schnetlage
University of Maryland, College Park
1 Course9,114 learners

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