Problem Statement
Product management is a critical part of the organization’s structure as it links the institution directly to its clients. Product managers are pushed and pulled to different customer requirements at the same time. The rise in responsibility and desire for exemplary performance has necessitated the managers to stretch themselves to seek the intervention of artificial intelligence. The application of deep learning in production is recommended because of its dependable and reliable characteristics. AI can with precision identify offensive players in the production chain and suggest appropriate categories to the users who are consumers in this case.
The products created are meant for the full satiation of customer unending wants and needs and thus paramount. Well, a product manager is responsible for gathering, coordinating, and overseeing all the operations geared towards the creation of the desired product. He is thus an important person in the structure of any enterprise. It is not a requirement for the individual identified for the role of a product manager to have first-hand skills in the generation of the products themselves. He is supposed to be a fast learner and use intuition to coordinate the processes. They can rely on artificial intelligence programs that are capable of deciphering the anomalies in the chain of production accurately and make corrections appropriately.
The New Role of AI-Product Manager
AI-product managers are called so because they use little of human intelligence to discern operations. They have embraced machine intelligence in the execution of their roles giving the impression that they are no longer useful. It has also painted a picture that their roles have changed. In the future, all products will be applying machine or deep learning and therefore AI-PMs have to conform to the new standards and skills requisite for the job. Machine intelligence is just an aid to them to perform their responsibilities precisely, accurately, and with zero errors. Therefore the use of machine intelligence is meant to strengthen the capacity of these managers to perform better.
Over time, Artificial Intelligence has been applied in a wide range of industrial fields. For instance, in improving the security of both data and property and prediction of the behavior investment, or stock prices are bound to take therefore helping investors make proper decisions. With the dawn of advanced research into deep machine learning, the role of AI-PM is changing slowly. The most recently identified role is their increased participation in the development of systems that automatically execute the roles they would have. Also, they have been forced to focus on the actual user needs because AIs notionally view everything around them as a problem requiring a solution.
Skills and Knowledge of AI-PM
For an AI-PM to remain relevant, he needs to acquire diplomatic skills which will help him capture the attention and support of the firm’s top management. Through active engagement of the senior officials in the preliminary product, design stages can help them achieve this. Furthermore, bargaining skills are necessary to be able to prioritize the business while at the same time pleasing customers. They need to acquire the ability to relate with the engineering department to get to learn how products are designed and created and facilitate tradeoffs among design and engineering resolutions. Technical skills in interactive prototyping, extraction, and collection, and analysis of data, are equally important for the AI-PMs. Flexibility is crucially relevant as sometimes the systems can fail and therefore they have to apply intuitive thinking to discern efficient decisions.
New Risks, Threats, and Challenges
AI product managers have to convince the world that they do not entirely depend on machine intelligence to perform the roles they are supposed to be carrying out but rather as an aiding tool. This is the challenge that they have to deal with convincingly. Additionally, there is significant resistance from those who think that it is not the right choice to make. The technology requires human intervention to develop a skill for problem resolution accurately. AIs can also perform actions, not in the manner the product manager expected and therefore this is a risk they have to deal with. Moreover, when the results come out undesirable the blame is entirely shifted and rests upon the shoulders of AI product managers. The stakeholders do not recognize the role played by machine intelligence. Therefore, it is a risk they have to be prepared to handle and live with whenever the performance is compromised.
New Opportunities in AI Product Management
The field of AI-PM is still green, and a lot of untapped potentials are yet to be identified and solved. The artificial intelligent manager is not limited to operate in the enumerated areas henceforth. He can equally be relevant in comprehending from sensor statistics of production performance. Moreover, prediction and monitoring of industrial and financial progress through readily available information can prove tedious and challenging, and hence the intervention of AI-PM is required. Marketing and advertising where the advertising media is necessitated to assess what appeals to customers rather than what an advertiser thinks is fit for the customer also attract some input from AI. And definitely, this interjection requires product managers who utilize machine learning. Financial risk management in the financial sector can be difficult due to the voluminous data inflow. Thus requiring AI-PMs to venture into this sector to effectively generate simple and clear data dependable upon to draw conclusive investment decisions.