7 Keys To Success When Developing Your Smart Product Design

Learn how to design successful smart products and digital business models to maximize information value for customers and stakeholders.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about guiding you through the exciting world of smart product design and digital business models. You'll get to learn by doing and reshape how you think about bringing new products to life, making sure they really connect with people.

Key Points

  • Fundamental shift in product design
  • Learning by doing approach
  • Identify data strategies and business models

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop smart product designs that fulfill user needs.
  • Create and validate effective digital business models.
  • Understand different types of business models for smart products.

About This Course

Your roadmap for successful smart product design, delivering optimum information value for customers and stakeholders

For every one digital product success story, there are more than a dozen that have failed. Why?  Designing a smart, connected product-- and developing a proper digital business model to support this new product-- requires a completely new approach. Smart, connected products create a fundamental shift in how we do business, altering the landscape of how we develop and validate our products and deliver value to our customers.

In this course, you will learn how to successfully develop and validate your smart product and digital business model design for optimum information value. Each course section targets one of the seven keys to your success when validating your smart product design.  Optimizing for information value-- delivered via your smart product and supported by the right digital business model-- increases your odds for success in bringing a smart product to market that customers will want to buy and stakeholders will support.

The course leverages a range of real-world problems showing you how to redesign your products and business model to better meet user needs and for increased competitive advantage. Each of the course’s activities embodies a ‘learning by doing’ approach, applying module concepts to develop and refine your own smart product concepts and digital business models.

  • Target opportunities to add information and additional product value through the stakeholder journey mapping process

  • Identify a data strategy for smart product design

  • Understand four distinct types of digital business models

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Instructor

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Todd Hostager

Dr. Hostager provides product managers with training focused on bringing connected devices to market. For nearly three decades, Dr. Hostager was a professor of Management and Marketing at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. He received his B.A. from St. Olaf College and his Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Rodrigo Alarcão
Rodrigo A.
2.0
1 year ago

To much talking, they should go strait to the point. This course could be on third of the time if the instructors were more efficient explain things. The slides repete from video to video and don’t add much more information related to the talk…

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ui-avatar of Dr.Iwan Aang Soenandi
Dr.iwan A. S.
5.0
4 years ago

good and useful

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ui-avatar of Vitor Domingues
Vitor D.
5.0
5 years ago

Having good times, more curious, interested, experienced with the subject.

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ui-avatar of Kory Peterson
Kory P.
5.0
8 years ago

This was my first online course and it exceeded what I expected. I was able to follow along with the user interface quite easily and the instructors made it seem as if we were still in a classroom together. Would recommend this course to anyone interested in pursuing a smart product idea!!!

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Nicolas G.
5.0
8 years ago

Concise, well articulated, and cleverly outlined. If you are looking for a digital product development roadmap, then look no further Dr. Hostager's & Jason's - 7 Keys To Success When Developing Your Smart Product. This course will provide you with the information and clarity you need in order to execute the next steps of starting your business. The meticulous attention to detail is what really makes this such a great course. A true bargain for the knowledge you will gain.

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ui-avatar of Ryan Pyfferoen
Ryan P.
4.5
8 years ago

Highly informative and thorough. Immediate concerns (i.e. sharing your idea, and with who, without it being stolen) are addressed. Really like the explanation of DSJM, and how a Problem must first be identified before a Product can be created and used to address it.

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ui-avatar of Jen Kramer
Jen K.
4.5
8 years ago

I've just done a couple of modules but so far the course but seems very good! I like how they describe, step-by-step, how to start the process of developing a "smart" product. This course seems great with the new product I have in mind!

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