A product development learning community designed specifically for associations.

• Unique. The only one of its kind.
• Curriculum. Live, facilitative, competency-based, experiential, and tool-based.
• Usable outcomes. Learn to build a new, market-ready product.
• New business model. Understand and reach your customers more efficiently.
• Framework. Reusable product framework and repeatable processes.
• Culture-building. Community creates buy-in, focus, and momentum.

Anything of value produced by an association. Common association example products include events, podcasts, webinars, or membership. 

Product community® examples are any common association example built on a product framework that leverages underutilized value, extends possibility, and allows for the creation of endless, focused spinoffs. 

• E-Learning. Collection of curated content tailored to your needs. Can be delivered in varying lengths bundled by theme.
• Tool Subscription. Practical tools delivered via email to foster engagement. Includes video intros and is linked to questions.
• Interactive, Orientation Game. Help socialize new members by gamifying boring content.

• A fully-functional product community® for an association.
• Diversified revenue through product development and the four dimensions of growth: discover for growth, build for growth, deliver for growth, and measure for growth.
• A ready-for-market product with accompanying business model, product roadmap, go-to-market plan, and growth plan.
• Durable access to diverse peers and practical tools to build knowledge and community.
• A transformed culture around the new imperative for robust community and agile responsiveness.

There are six Product Community® competencies, designed specifically for professional associations:

1. Culture – Products are team-based
2. Vision – Products are anticipatory
3. Customer – Products are learner-centric
4. Design + Build – Products are optimized
5. Go to market – Products are expansive
6. Performance – Products are indispensable

The competencies are accompanied with the Product Community® Maturity Model, which acts as a way to anchor current state, gauge progress, and achieve outcomes.

The product community® is a yearlong cohort program, divided into quarterly themes which take about 3 months each. Each of these quarterly themes is a considered a dimension of growth: discover for growth, build for growth, deliver for growth, and measure for growth.

The cohort meets 3 times a month for approximately one hour. There are specific required activities, assignments, and things to consume. 

This is job related work. Google’s famous 20% rule dictates the number of working hours that should be spent on innovation. About 15 hours a month, 3 hours in the live course and another 12 or so reading, engaging, and completing assignments.

The product community® is a fully built, live, yearlong curriculum anchored by six competencies, learning objectives, readings, videos, podcasts, assessments, and tools.

The curriculum is reconfigurable to meet the needs of learners. That is, we can adapt the curriculum to your association’s needs in time (1 hour, half day, one month, three months, etc.) or topic (a particular area of emphasis which you’d like to focus: product marketing, pricing, culture-building, etc.)

Cohort. In each of the three live meetings per month, participants consume content, participate in the session, apply a model or framework, and continually build a product relevant to their association.

We base the product community® ROI on responses to the following seven questions

1. What does it cost, and how long does it take, to get a new product to market?
2. How many people does it take to get a new product to market?
3. How precise is your product market fit?
4. What is your yearly spend on professional development and what is your return on this spend?
5. Is your product portfolio built on a repeatable product framework?
6. What is the average salary of a product owner/manager?
7. How much would your organization have to spend on product ownership experience to receive similar services?

The product community® is designed as outcome-based. There are the multiple ways in which we will measure progress, success, and outcomes: 

• Quantitative Measures.

1. 1. Quarterly outcomes 
   2. Alignment assessment 
   3. Participant satisfaction 
   4. Community evaluations 

• Qualitative Measures. 

1. 1. Product Community® Maturity Model
   2. Program outcomes 
   3. Knowledge recall 
   4. Product portfolio assessment

• Durable Growth Measures. 

1. 1. Revenue growth 
   2. Revenue diversification
   3. Number of products 
   4. Number of product variants 
   5. Number of learners / members 
   6. Time to market. 
   7. Product pipeline. 
   8. Product lifecycle.