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Kevin Jankay

Kevin Jankay
Kevin Jankay is a enthusiastic Product Owner who enjoys working with customers and his team to bring the best features and products to market. He also enjoys writing about himself in the third person, especially when reading it in a Morgan Freeman voice. Send him a connection request on LinkedIn to learn more.
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Recent Posts

7 Smart Ways to Optimize Capacity Planning for Manufacturers

In 2025, the most profitable manufacturing companies aren’t those with the biggest factories. Instead, they’re the ones whose manufacturing capacity planning strategies are synced and move in real-time to shifting market and product portfolio demands. If your teams can’t adjust capacity at the same speed as your product roadmap changes, you’re already losing market share. 

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How Product Portfolio Management Software Solves 6 Common Frustrations

In industrial manufacturing, product and portfolio managers juggle constant complexities: global operations, shifting customer needs, resource constraints, and evolving roadmaps. Too often, these realities result in misaligned teams, unclear priorities, and frustration throughout the organization. Luckily, advanced product portfolio management technology addresses these complexities in one streamlined platform.

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How Demand Management Aligns Product Strategy with Your Market in 2025

In today’s volatile manufacturing landscape, the gap between product strategy and market reality has never been more costly. Global manufacturers face unprecedented challenges: supply chain disruptions, rapidly shifting customer preferences, and economic uncertainty that can render traditional forecasting methods obsolete overnight.

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Product Roadmap Examples: 4 Real-World Manufacturing Approaches

In industrial manufacturing, product roadmaps are more than just timelines. They’re essential tools that help product managers align global teams, manage complexity, and drive long-term product strategy.

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Smart Manufacturing 101: Revolutionize Your Processes for Strategic Impact

Thanks to advancements in smart technology, manufacturing leaders are witnessing a fundamental shift in how products come to life. Is your business ready to embrace the shift towards smart manufacturing?

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New Product Launch Plan: 5 Steps to Execute the Perfect Launch

As a manufacturer, you understand the importance of introducing a new product to the market. You and your team have meticulously crafted a product launch plan that must be executed perfectly to achieve the desired results and ROI.

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Product Portfolio Management: Your Ultimate Guide to PPMs

Here’s a simple truth: When it comes to your product line, resource allocation and risk management MUST be strategically aligned with your core business goals. That’s why manufacturers place such an emphasis on product portfolio planning.

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5 Reasons Why Modular Product Architecture Requires a New Roadmapping Approach

Modular products offer flexibility, faster innovation, and reusability across product lines — but they also introduce a web of dependencies that traditional roadmaps just can’t handle. Static tools like spreadsheets or slide decks break down quickly when you're managing dozens of interconnected modules across teams, timelines, and markets.

To succeed, product managers need purpose-built tools that offer centralized visibility, real-time collaboration, and dynamic roadmap updates.

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How Gocious Aligns Product Strategy and Execution Across Manufacturing Organizations

Success in complex product development environments hinges on more than just launching new offerings—it requires strategic alignment, operational agility, and the ability to see the full picture. Yet, product teams are often trapped in spreadsheets, disconnected from data, and make isolated decisions that ripple unpredictably across product lines.

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The Power of a Shared Source of Truth: Keeping Global Product Teams Synchronized

Global product teams can drive innovation—or costly confusion—depending on how well they stay aligned with company goals and product vision. For manufacturers with operations across multiple regions and departments, coordination is critical. Without a centralized, transparent communication system, misalignment can delay development and derail timelines.

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Turning Sustainable Product Goals into Reality with Roadmapping Tools

Today’s consumers, investors, and regulators demand that companies take real responsibility for the environmental impact of their products. Meeting these expectations doesn’t happen by accident—it requires intentional planning from the very start.

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Beyond Silos: How to Align and Optimize Your Product Portfolio

Products are becoming more sophisticated by the year as innovative software capabilities integrate with reliable hardware solutions. Even though these products evolve and disrupt various industries with their technologies, the functionality of traditional product management tools lags behind.

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