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UMD, USMx: Lean Enterprise Framework: Transform the Business Model

Learn how to lead and transform businesses into Product Enterprises through values, processes, organizations, strategy, and cultural shifts to long-term, customer centric business models creating exceptional value on a sustainable basis.

Lean Enterprise Framework: Transform the Business Model
4 weeks
2–3 hours per week
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Starts Nov 14

About this course

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This course provides foundational understanding of what a Product Enterprise can be, why it makes sense to build one, identifies key roles and provides an approach to shape the transformation journey. It builds critical expertise around:

● Product driven business capabilities that power multiple value streams

● Creation of a Portfolio strategy that enables creation & use of scalable, reusable technical capabilities

● A framework for prioritization that maximizes long-term business value alongside customer centricity

● Business Model design that aligns product value streams to business capabilities to technical platforms and solutions

● An operational model to accelerate modernization of complex outdated systems into state of the art cloud-based apps

At a glance

  • Institutions:

    UMD

    USMx
  • Subject: Engineering
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites:
    None
  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated programs:
  • Associated skills:Prioritization, Scalability, Lean Enterprise, Business Valuation

What you'll learn

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  • Understand what business model transformation means

  • Learn the core components of a Business Model and how to evolve them individually through a focused approach

  • Build deep alignment across individual products to build a highly optimized and lean Product Portfolio

Week 1: Business Architecture

o Capability centric enterprise view that powers multiple products in a portfolio and aligns to technical platforms consisting of reusable services that build a highly efficient value delivery mechanism at scale

Week 2: Portfolio Prioritization & Enterprise Funding Models

o Apply value-centric prioritization frameworks at enterprise level and align funding to maximize ROI while managing risks and competing fiercely in the marketplace

Week 3: Managing end-to-end Product Lifecycle

o Initial product launch (0-1) to continuous discovery and delivery frameworks that constantly add incremental value through various product lifecycle stages

Week 4: Product Portfolio & Business Model

o Shaping a product portfolio, defining optimization and funding strategies including deceleration and rationalization

o Creating a product-centric Business Model

This course is part of Lean Product Portfolio Management Professional Certificate Program

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