Janne J. Korhonen
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Helsinki, Finland
Toptal member since May 14, 2021
Janne is an independent consultant, coach, and advisor with 20+ years of versatile consulting experience in strategic, enterprise-scale, mission-critical, and international IT projects in various industries. Janne's specialties include organizational design and development, enterprise architecture, strategy, leadership, digital strategy, and digital service business.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Business Analysis
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Capability Assessment
- Digital Product Development
- Enterprise Architecture
- Organizational Design
- Solution Architecture
- Technology Strategy & Architecture
Work Experience
Freelance Product Manager
Toptal Clients
- Analyzed and developed a B2B SaaS startup's technical setup for virtual innovation workshops. Helped shape the strategy and outline the roadmap. Analyzed and coached team dynamics.
- Assessed the existing functionality, scope, wireframes, and plans; oversaw the prototype development.
- Conducted in-depth research to identify pertinent reference taxonomies and datasets, and created a metamodel for a revised proprietary taxonomy and populated it with relevant data.
- Co-delivered an ideation workshop to empathize with the stakeholders’ pain points and to identify prospective customers and use cases for a new technology.
- Analyzed the competition, discovered customers, and defined the product vision, value proposition, business model, and product-market fit; outlined a product roadmap, made business case calculations, identified team needs, and designed a user study.
Managing Director
Edisto, Ltd. (Self-employed)
- Analyzed requirements and outlined solution architecture alternatives of data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analytics solutions. Advised on the development of strategic capabilities and information governance.
- Provided technology advisory services, cloud solution architecture, service design, Agile coaching, and business development to a SaaS startup pertaining to the financial and administrative back end of SMEs.
- Served as interim CTO for a travel tech startup. Managed a PWA-based app solution, cloud infrastructure, Agile software development, and CI/CD DevOps processes.
- Engaged in business development and sales at a solar energy solutions and sales company. Innovated and developed digital business models and services. Deployed and configured an ERP/CRM system.
- Worked as an organizational architect at an IT infrastructure wholesaler. Helped define the organization's growth strategy and uncover its identity.
- Served as an advisor for an electric boat manufacturer. Counseled the company and the CEO on business models, market segmentation, sales set up, product packaging, marketing, and business development.
- Led technical workshops, identified and mapped functional and technical requirements, and guided the implementation of a cloud-based SaaS Product Information Management system to replace several Legacy databases.
- Defined and developed the direction, strategy, and outcomes for enterprise architecture; defined the EA governance and EA services; conducted process mining analyses on the car production process; and analyzed and redesigned portfolio management.
Lead Consultant
QPR Software
- Developed an integration plan to replace the source system for statistical reporting to ensure seamless continuity of the statistics function. Coordinated four software development teams in the 1 Me+ design and development of the solution.
- Coordinated a process analysis and modeling project to uncover and visualize EU democratic decision-making and legislative processes.
- Mentored a large industrial manufacturer in their enterprise architecture practice and the application of EA methods and tools in an IT landscape transformation program.
- Coordinated and analyzed the as-is situation, solution alternatives, and design of the to-be procurement systems and processes for a government agency. Specified functional and non-functional requirements for the procurement solution.
- Analyzed the as-is situation of strategy, organization, business functions, and IT landscape. Developed the functional reference architecture and designed the target enterprise architecture for a high-growth packaging manufacturer.
- Led a task force to develop organizational ways of working: recruitment strategy and priorities, required skills, training and development approach, individual growth paths, and workforce well-being.
Principal
Requisite Remedy (Self-employed)
- Built the strategic target architecture for the business; conducted business case calculations, requirements analysis, solution design, master data analysis, process, and information system mapping.
- Developed the enterprise integration and SOA strategy, integration architecture, requirements analysis, service and integration specifications, information modeling, and information governance model.
- Analyzed and designed BSS and OSS integrations; re-engineered provisioning processes and functional and technical designs; and handled ITIL change, incident, and problem management.
- Designed and deployed an SOA governance framework: roles and responsibilities, principles, policies and practices; SOA funding model, information modeling guidelines, and master data management practices.
- Performed succession planning, capability, and competence assessment of five director candidates; provided advisory in organization design.
- Advised organization design, talent management, performance management, and cultural growth in an information services company.
- Created a capability-based enterprise architecture framework; developed IT and workflow automation strategies; analyzed business intelligence requirements and helped in the tool selection; and provided architectural assurance for strategic projects.
- Assisted an EU agency in defining its information strategy, principles, governance structure, and information management policies.
- Helped a digital marketing agency appraise, develop, and optimize its clients' adaptive digital marketing capability along relevant dimensions.
- Outlined an enterprise architecture framework for a telecom software company based on TOGAF capability-based planning, SAFe, and eTOM.
Senior Information Specialist
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
- Developed concepts, offerings, frameworks, and methodologies pertaining to business process management.
- Designed and developed a showcase demo to showcase the organization’s capabilities in geographic information systems (GIS) and enterprise application integration (EAI).
- Coordinated the automation and real-time management of radio network construction processes; defined business process architecture; analyzed and designed business processes; and led the BPM development team.
- Developed technology strategies and policies, implementation patterns, reference technology stack, and the conceptual model of business process management in the global corporate-level reference enterprise architecture program.
- Integrated enterprise applications in high-level target architecture blueprint, defining a major, multi-year enterprise transformation program. Designed, deployed, and facilitated governance for cross-domain communications and coordination.
- Contributed to the corporate SOA reference architecture and to the enterprise integration offering. Co-chaired the global BPM and workflow community of practice.
- Devised a non-normative proof-of-concept mapping of BPDM constructs to BPEL elements in OMG’s business process definition metamodel (BPDM) standard.
- Co-designed the EA metamodel; conducted worldwide discovery, collection, and analysis of enterprise architecture data; and reverse-engineered business processes in a global enterprise architecture modernization team.
- Devised business process architecture, implementation patterns, and guidelines; coordinated business process analysis and design; and gave end-client training.
Consultant
WM Data (formerly Novo; Stonesoft e-Solutions)
- Designed and implemented sales automation systems (e.g., sales configurators and pricing engines) for global telecommunications and industry companies. Provided pre-sales consulting.
- Assessed and reported the work unit’s organizational culture and provided recommendations for organizational development.
- Conducted root cause analysis, bug fixing, and development of an in-house, object-oriented client-server payroll application.
- Performed a viability assessment of a business model for the client company, investigated RosettaNet’s applicability to exception-based collaborative forecasting, and proposed a process integration architecture and an implementation roadmap.
- Conducted a business, process, and information analysis of the client’s operating environment, gathered requirements, and proposed an integration architecture and roadmap.
- Developed the company’s EAI offering, evaluated products, and engaged in pre-sales and tendering activities.
- Led a development team of six people responsible for implementing the process control subsystem for the hot rolling process in a mission-critical, real-time environment based on a four-tier event-driven architecture.
- Provided consulting and provision of training in business process analysis (BPA), redesign, and implementation (BPM), covering the entire process development lifecycle.
Software Engineer
Ericsson
- Developed, designed, and maintained an in-house patent database application.
- Designed data modeling and relational database schema and query.
- Created and developed reports and the user interface.
Project History
Strategic Frameworks for Enterprise Architecture and Information Management
Designed two strategic frameworks for an EU agency: a capability-based enterprise architecture framework and information management framework.
In the first one, I, together with a resident business architect, designed an agency-wide strategic enterprise architecture framework that fostered the identification, development, and management of capabilities across the agency. The framework featured a steering model, capability-based planning process, high-level capability map, service catalog, architectural principles, and development roadmap.
In the second project, I facilitated articulating information strategy, the design of an information governance model, and the specification of information management policies. The capability-based enterprise architecture framework transformed the agency’s planning approach from activity-based to capability-based – steering the organization from the future capability requirements rather than present resource constraints. The information management framework established a governance structure and unified and enhanced the agency’s information management principles, policies, and processes.
Smart Metering Transformation
Specified the solution architecture in a major transformation program pertaining to automated meter management.
In this role, I led workshops for requirements analysis and architecture development; elicited functional and non-functional requirements, asset information, artifact dependencies, and master data and document information, process, system, and technical views; provided vendors with guidelines about the solution to be developed and secured alignment between the solution architecture document and vendor specifications; identified and evaluated solution scenarios and contributed to the definition of strategic views for the target architecture.
TESTIMONIAL
"Janne performed the work highly professionally, assignments always completed [on] time, [within] budget, and with quality exceeding expectations."
Process Control System Re-engineering
Worked as a team leader in a large-scale mission-critical process control system (PCS) re-engineering program that enabled the client, a large steel manufacturer, to double its production capacity.
Specified functional and non-functional requirements with the customer, designed the solution in coordination with other teams and within the architectural constraints, coordinated the software development, and developed system test cases.
The PCS system comprised 150 user interfaces, 210 database tables, 16 message brokers, and 22 business logic servers.
Product Management for an Early-stage Startup
Helped the client articulate a well-defined value proposition, design their business model, and define a go-to-market strategy.
TESTIMONIAL
"Janne Korhonen consistently showcased his expertise in product management throughout the project's development, with an uncanny ability to analyze market trends and incorporate them into our product's design. He demonstrated a deep understanding of various theories and frameworks and was able to effectively apply them to the project, ensuring the alignment of our business goals with market demands."
Education
Doctorate in Product Information Technology
Aalto University - Helsinki, Finland
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Cognitive Science
University of Helsinki - Helsinki, Finland
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Helsinki University of Technology - Espoo, Finland
Certifications
Become an SEO Expert
Become a Digital Marketing Specialist
Master Digital Marketing
TOGAF 9 Certified
Open Group
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
Become a User Experience Designer
Master Digital Transformation
Digital Product Management Specialization
Coursera
Master Agile Software Development
Become a Product Manager
Become an Agile Project Manager
Agile Development
Coursera
AWS Fundamentals
Coursera
Azure Infrastructure Fundamentals
Coursera
Archimate 3 Practitioner
Open Group
Archimate 3 Foundation
Open Group
Skills
Tools
Microsoft Access, Oracle BPM, Confluence, Jira, Cucumber, Microsoft Project, JBoss Application Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Ant, CVS, TortoiseSVN, Eclipse IDE, Toad, Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Visio, Prototyping on Paper (POP), Google Analytics, ETL, Figma, Office 365
Paradigms
Requirements Analysis, Capability-based Planning, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Design Thinking, Agile Product Management, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Agile Software Development, Database Schema Design, Testing, Agile, Kanban, Agile Project Management, Scrum, B2C, Change Management, Rapid Prototyping, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Digital Marketing Best Practices, Scalable Application, Model View Presenter (MVP), Usability Testing, DevOps, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Data Product Management, User Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Industry Expertise
Shipping, Asset Management, High-tech Startups, Hospitality, Education Technology (Edtech), Energy, Marketplaces, Telecommunications, Industrial & Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Logistics, Industrials
Platforms
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Azure, IBM WebSphere, WebSphere MQ, Blockchain
Other
Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Organizational Design, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Enterprise Transformation, Capability Assessment, Consulting, IT Consulting, Data Governance, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Mentorship, Coaching, Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Application Architecture, BPM, Business Process Automation, Presales, Corporate Culture, Organizational Development, Roadmaps, Business Process Analysis, IT, Business Analysis, Workshop Facilitation, Design, ArchiMate, IT Systems Architecture, Solution Design, Business Process Modeling, System Design, IT Project Management, Technical Product Management, Technical Architecture, Requirements, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, System Requirements, User Requirements, Design Requirements, Technical Requirements, Requirements & Specifications, Technical Writing, Product Management, Process Automation, Microsoft Excel, Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), BPEL, Product Roadmaps, Research, Business Processes, Business Process Flow (BPF), Business Process Re-engineering, Business Process Improvement (BPI), GAP Analysis, Analysis, Process Improvement Project Management, Technology, Business Plan Consulting, Process Improvement, Business Process Optimization, Mentorship & Coaching, Technical Consulting, Digital Product Development, Process Flows, Workflow, Instruction & Coaching, Technology Solutions, Business Consulting, Business Transformation, Conceptualization, Management Consulting, Structure & Organizational Design, Technical Documentation, System Architecture, Process Design, Business Architecture, Target Operating Models, Operating Models, Organizational Structure, Enterprise, Data Analysis, Technical Project Management, Enterprise Software, Software Consulting, System Integration, Integration, Workflow Tools, Technical Business Analysis, IT Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, IT Systems Engineering, Timelines, Business Systems Analysis, Microsoft PowerPoint, Project Consultancy, Developer Relations, Complex Problem Solving, Content Creation, Architecture, Software Architecture, Documentation, Product Leadership, Team Management, Content Writing, Writing & Editing, Copywriting, Business Design, Digital Product Design, Business Models, Leadership, Psychology, Advisory, CTO, Management, Data Management, Talent Management, Business Advisory, Intalio, Salesforce, Product Configuration, Feasibility Studies, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Team Leadership, Training, Software Development, Databases, Relational Database Design, TOGAF, Quality Management, Data Quality, Client Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management, First Principles, Data Strategy, Governance, Policy Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vendor Management, Project Management, Hypothesis Testing, User Experience (UX), Lean Startups, APIs, Data Pipelines, Estimation & Planning, Estimations, Cost Estimation, Project Estimation, Discovery Workshops, eCommerce, Backlog Management, IT Product Management, App Product Management, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Startups, Startup Consulting, Early-stage Startups, Mobile Apps, Feature Backlog Prioritization, IT Services, Scope Management, B2B, Automation Tools, Product Strategy, Mobile Applications, Travel & Leisure, Travel, Travel Product Manager, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise SaaS, SaaS, SaaS Product Management, Innovation, Business Strategy, Product Marketing, Software Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Design, Agile Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, User Stories, Automation, Software, Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, Business to Consumer (B2C), Visual Basic, SQL, Project Consultation, UML, Web Services, Industry Standards, Community Development, Community Management, Thought Leadership, Project Planning, Business Services, Service-level Agreements (SLAs), Project Timelines, Product Vision, Product Ownership, Strategy, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Recruiting, Staffing, Big Data, Digital Transformation, Virtual Work, Innovation Management, Communication, Ideation, Cloud, Product Development, Teamwork, Scheduling, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Facilitation, Direct to Consumer (D2C), UX Research, Agency, Discovery, Planning, Product Design, Technical Design, AWS Cloud Architecture, Product Planning, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Selection, API Documentation, API Development, Market Fit, Recruitment, Revenue Strategy, Competition Research, Competitive Strategy, Feature Prioritization, Feature Roadmaps, MVP Design, Product Owner, Prototyping, Web & Mobile Applications, Go-to-market Plans, New Business Development, New Product Development, Business Development, Business to Business (B2B), Agile Practices, Data Analytics, Strategic Design, IT Service Management (ITSM), Business Cases, UI Design, Hiring, Technical Hiring, Data Flows, Relational Databases, Relational Data Mapping, Data Visualization, Data Migration, Education, Business Planning, Operational Efficiency Improvement, Process Documentation, Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), Big Data Architecture, Data Architecture, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Metadata, User Interviews, Innovation Strategy, Product Operations, Business Operations, Pitch Decks, Monetization, Growth Strategy, Monetization Models, Growth, Digital Product Management, Scope of Work (SOW), Research Analysis, Stock Market, Project Reporting, Sprint Planning, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Product Positioning, White Papers, Product Strategy Consultant, Project Scoping, Go-to-market Strategy, Client Relations, Manufacturing, Control Systems, Solar, CRM Systems, Innovation Workshops, Research & Investigation, User Surveys, API Integration, Distributed Team Management, Web App Development, Workshops, Systems Engineering, Customer Research, Value Proposition, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Europe, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Delivery, Partnerships, Business Model Canvas, Training & Training Content Development, Value Proposition Design, Project Scheduling, Messaging, Vision Development, Presentations, Strategic Initiatives, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Qualitative Research, User Validation Testing, Product Coach, Use Cases, Market Opportunity Analysis, Feature Planning, Supply Chain, Applications, Privacy, Application Security, SaaS Product Marketing, Technical Recruiting, Two-sided Marketplaces, ARIS Cloud, Project Coordination, WordPress, Organizational Change Management (OCM), QA Testing, Career Coaching, Business Coaching, Platform Design, Scrum Master, Apps, Product Consultant, Product Sales, Detail-oriented, Subscriptions, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Product Research, Data, Data Cleansing, Internal Communications, Industry Analysis, Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI), Finance, Pricing Models, Software & Hardware Maintenance, Patents, Azure PaaS, Process Control, Startup Funding, Configuration Management, Web Applications, Web Platforms, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Usability, Operations Management, Customer Service Support, Product Launch, Customer Development, Product Innovation, Refactoring, Coding, Lean, Lean Project Management, Lean Product Management, Java, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), MySQL, IBM Rational Rose, Jakarta EE, C++, Oracle RDBMS, BizTalk, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, Smart Contracts, Machine Learning, Collaboration, Organizational Leadership, Performance Management, People Management, Customer Service, Social Media, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Data Science, Quantum Computing, UX Design, Interaction Design (IxD), User Needs, Content Strategy, User Personas, User Interface (UI), UI Prototyping, Creative Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Migration, Internet of Things (IoT), Information Security, Design Research, Brainstorming, Entrepreneurship, JavaScript, Web Development, Market Research, Wireframing, Finance APIs, Launch Strategy, Marketing Plans, Brand Design, Brand Marketing, Product Discovery, Security, Customer Acquisition, Portfolio Management, Managed Services, Lean Product Manager, Fintech, Quality Control (QC), Edtech Design, Forecasting, Operations & Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), Infrastructure, Analytics, Consumer-facing Product Design, Release Management, Customer Discovery, User Validation, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Mobile App Development, Market Research & Analysis, Web Design, Branding, User Research, Digital Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Marketing, Marketing, Web Analytics, Lead Generation, App Development, Mobile, Development, Industrial IT, Ideation Workshops, Feature Analysis, User-generated Content, Cost Analysis, Sales, Customer Insights, Cloud Services, Accounting, Marketing Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Channel Strategy, Financing, Inventory Management Systems, Events, Revenue Modeling, Telemetry, Telematics, Omnichannel Marketing, Platforms, Taxonomy, Hardware, Data Privacy, Know Your Customer (KYC), International Data Privacy Regulations, Identity, Advertising, Product Information Management (PIM), Access Control, Dashboards, Continuous Integration (CI), Green Energy, Sales Funnel, A/B Testing, Funnel Marketing, Funnel Optimization, Payment Gateways, Artificial Intelligence Product Manager, ServiceNow
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