Audit of Product Management Department

About the client

Wolters Kluwer is one of the largest global publishing houses. It provides publications addressed to the legal, economic, healthcare, public administration and education industries etc. The concern operates in Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region and employs over 19,000 people.

Wolters Kluwer also provides specialist information services and is known in Poland for the largest of legal information system – LEX or the systems for public administration called Progman.

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About the project

One of the key product lines has experienced dynamic growth which resulted in product managers being heavily engaged in operations. The audit had a goal finding improvements to the NPD processes so product managers can spend more time working on developing their products. 

Concept: Distributed Energy Network

Project results

Communication of Product Strategy
Audit helped to identify how product teams understand the board’s strategy and proposed improvements that were to better engage employees. 
NPD maturity assessment 
Following PDMA Framework we identified improvements in product areas: managing product portfolio, tools and metrics and team roles that are to accomodate further growth
User support improvements 
Audit identify key user support processes improvements needed to significantly reduce product managers workload not related 

Voice of customers

Relations are key to our business. Don’t believe only in what you read – listed to the opinions of our customers.

Rokanan is like a doctor. When you have a pain, they will find out what the problem is and prescribe a medicine.

 

 

Sławomir Jeszke – Regulatory Software Director at Wolters Kluwer

Audit identified changes necessary for the further dynamic growth of our software product management department. Rokanan brings NPD expertise that is rare on the market.

 Marcin Kleina – Board Member and Software Product Development Director at Wolters Kluwer

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