Managing Product Management: Empowering Your Organization to Produce Competitive Products and Brands

THE ROLE OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Product managers have always held a critical and central role to the success of Thomas & Betts. We always say that Product Management is the “center of our universe.” This is both metaphoric and literal. Metaphorically, we consider Product Management the core function that holds our strategies together. Like the central hub on a wheel, this team is responsible for working with nearly every other function in the corporation—Operations, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and even Human Resources—to develop core business strategies and to see that those strategies are executed at every level. Our product managers do not have any of these functions reporting directly to them, but they are totally responsible ...