You're eager to excel in product innovation. Which online courses will help you reach your full potential?

Design Thinking (IDEO U): Learn the fundamentals of human-centered design to solve real-world problems creatively. Product Management (Udemy or Coursera): Explore product lifecycle management, from idea conception to execution. Lean Product Management (LinkedIn Learning): Focus on lean methodologies to efficiently build, test, and iterate products.

One needs to know the entire product life cycle as innovation can happen at any phase - ideation, discovery, initiative prioritisation - requirements for MVP, development & testing, go-live, data gathering & analysis that feeds back into initiative prioritisation. Courses that focus on product 101 can be useful for anyone starting in the field. Advanced courses can help experts to revise industry standards and this specifically can be useful given that each org follows their own product evolution cycle.

Introduction to Product Management (Coursera by University of Virginia): Offers foundational knowledge in product management, including key concepts and processes. Product Management Fundamentals (LinkedIn Learning): Provides a broad overview of essential product management skills and tools.

Here are some courses that helped me with Product innovation: - Agile Development Specialization (Coursera, offered by University of Virginia) - Innovation Management (edX, offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Specialization (Coursera, offered by the University of Pennsylvania) - Product Strategy (Udacity)

Critically evaluate processes and feature benefits using the collective experience of the squad to figure out the key areas where innovation will be useful. Building advanced skills here can be through attending seminars & gatherings of like minded product folks - managers, POs, BAs, TLs and lead developers, data engineers etc.

Design Thinking (Coursera by University of Virginia): Deep dive into design thinking principles to enhance your problem-solving and innovation skills. Advanced Product Management (Udacity): Focuses on advanced strategies for managing complex products and leading product teams.

Deep diving into specialised areas will help building focus and expertise. This can be achieved on the job and in specific sprints: eg. design sprint, dev sprints etc. Naturally, this learning can be supplemented with on the job courses from reputed websites. Eg: one can always pick up human centric design or data analytics for PMs using BI (or other tools)

Data-Driven Product Management (edX by UC Berkeley): Learn how to use data and analytics to drive product decisions and strategies. Product Innovation and Technology Management (Coursera by University of London): Covers the integration of technology and innovation into product management.

Building High-Performing Teams (LinkedIn Learning): Develop skills to foster effective teamwork and collaboration in product development. Leading Remote Teams (Coursera by University of London): Useful for managing product teams in a remote or hybrid work environment.

Very important to learn how to collect, analyse and visualise data to test hypotheses and test out incremental user experience related changers. Product development skills can be acquired on the job. Courses such as data analytics 101, human centric design, advanced data collection techniques, statistical data analysis will all be very helpful for product folks across the organizational hierarchy

Product Management: Transforming Opportunities into Great Products (Coursera by University of Alberta): Focuses on applying product management concepts to real-world scenarios and case studies. Hands-On Product Management (Udemy): Offers practical, project-based learning to apply product management techniques in real-life contexts.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Coursera by Stanford University): Encourages ongoing innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in product management. Product Management and Marketing (LinkedIn Learning): Stay updated with current trends and strategies in product management and marketing.