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What is a digital product consultant?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In general terms, a consultant is someone who can provide specially tailored advice to clients in a particular field that they specialise in. The \u2018consultant\u2019 could be an individual working solo<\/strong>, a small team<\/strong> or a large company<\/strong> providing consulting services to a customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A digital product consultant is a specific type of consultant who is an expert in digital product innovation and development. Digital product consultants are professionals who understand the full process involved in developing digital products<\/strong> such as websites, applications, Saas, online services and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Why are digital product consultants useful?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The main reason a company may reach out to an external consultant of any kind is to help them to implement strategies to reach their goals in a manner that they can\u2019t (or don\u2019t want to) do themselves. It is a great way to bring in outside experts to run over key areas of businesses in order to optimise processes for the best results.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A great digital product consultant will help their customer to break down their products piece by piece in order to get a comprehensive overview of what it involves<\/strong>. This means looking at everything – starting from the \u2018big picture\u2019 features of the digital product and the tools used to get there, right through to the tiny details, the hidden processes and the real nuts and bolts of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a good digital product consultant can be invaluable<\/strong>, as they can look at the product in ways you never thought of and suggest ideas and changes which are beyond the scope of your current team.
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What do digital product consultants do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In short, a digital product consultant can help their client to digitally transform<\/a> their company and its processes to some degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although each digital consultant\u2019s approach may vary slightly, they will broadly follow similar stages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The discovery stage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Consultants carry out a discovery workshop<\/a> where they provide their customers with a full roadmap of the product, which includes information regarding their product\u2019s features and a full analysis of the product to fully understand what is it, how it works, what processes are involved and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elements the discovery stage<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This analysis uncovers what needs to be done, who the users and stakeholders are, and the best way to connect with them via the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the discovery stage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n