Case | Product portfolio decision and governance bodies | Product and portfolio owners | PPM team exists | Product managers exist |
A | CEO | CEO | No | No |
B | Executive board, portfolio decision team, business line management team, product program team | Sales items: Product managers; Other sellable levels: No named owners; Technical HW platforms: HW related R&D teams and “clusters”; HW component platform: Component technology team | Yes | Yes |
C | A cross functional board | Commercial product portfolio: chief operating officer, COO; Technical product portfolio: R&D manager | No | No |
D | A cross functional “equipment development and offering steering | Commercial product portfolio: CEO, product managers and other executive board members; Technical product portfolio: Main designers (purchasing can sort and change HW components creating additional challenges) | No | Yes |
E | Board of directors | VPs of business units | No | No |
F | A cross functional team | Commercial product portfolio: A cross functional team; Technical product portfolio: R&D management in co-operation with demand supply chain management | No | No |
G | A cross functional steering | Commercial product portfolio: Product managers—technical product portfolio: Product owners working in R&D; Product road: R&D manager | No | Yes |
H | Executive product steering committee, product steering committee, product committee, product management | Commercial product portfolio: Product managers in the sales and marketing function; Two global technical product platforms: Two “global model owners” | No | Yes |
I | Product development and technology team | Product managers own functionalities and requirements of products but are not nominated as product owners. Technical SW and HW platforms are owned by platform owners. Technical item structures and BOMs are owned by main designers for single products | No | Yes |
J | Product board | Commercial product portfolio: Product owners; Technical product portfolio: Chief engineers in development phase and product technical owners in maintenance phase | No | Yes |