Home About Shipping Solutions Knowledge Library Blog Contact Customer Portal Product Roadmaps – Discuss! John Wills • Nov 12, 2021 Product Roadmaps – Discuss! I once had a difficult (and very long) conversation with a Director in a software business I worked in about the importance of roadmaps. Or rather, I asked to see the roadmap for his products and he said he didn’t have one as “we don’t need” one. This struck me as odd, but as a junior staff member I didn’t really know how to disagree with him, just that it ‘felt wrong’ not to have one. The memory of this discussion surfaces about this time every year as its about now we settle on a product roadmap for the forthcoming year. Before we finally sign it off, we also review how well we delivered against the previous year’s plan. Happily, I can say that in 2021, our teams delivered in spades. We launched (and sold!) more new products in ’21 than any year since we were acquired by Volaris with over 80% of those products developed in partnership with customers. This is an important metric for us as it evidences that we are investing wisely and further strengthening our relationships with our customer base. Win Win! Successful delivery in 2021 Also important is that we delivered everything we committed to on our roadmap, and 2021’s roadmap was pivotal for ShipNet as we continue into the second year of our product transformation strategy. That ‘transformation’ being the transition from an on-prem, client-server product to a web/SaaS centred business. The strategy came about from an extensive set of workshops and interviews we conducted with existing customers, partners, prospects and ex- customers in Q3 and Q4 of 2020. Those discussions led to a product strategy to guide ShipNet into a more modern age by 2023, and the product roadmap is the set of individual deliverables that we need to produce to get there on time, all whilst successfully achieving our business goals. We’ve listened, your suggestions are on the roadmap for 2022 So, the next part of Q4’s planning activities is getting next year’s roadmap finalised. The starting point for this is the basket of customer suggestions made in 2021. There is also a wide array of ideas driven by our own staff - developers, product, support and sales have all chipped in with things they know our customers have been asking for. On top of that we have the next wave of web (and mobile!) products we committed to deliver when we signed off our product transformation strategy in January of 2021. A big order to fill, but we’ve been hiring in advance of getting that party started. So with all this in mind, and thinking back to my former colleague and that long and difficult discussion, do I now know why the lack of a roadmap in that business felt so wrong? Well, what I felt but couldn’t articulate back then, was that a lack of product roadmap evidenced a lack of product strategy, and a lack of product strategy means that you don’t know where you are going, or why you are going there. Thankfully here at ShipNet we know where we are going and how we are going to get there. No one can guarantee the results - but what we can guarantee is we have a lot of work to get the next set of products out the door. But who doesn’t love that kind of challenge, especially with a map to help us enroute? Let us know what you think Get in touch with us if you have any questions but also if you have anything that will help us develop better products. Its only by working with people like you we can get better at what we do. If you need to ensure reliable 24/7 remote access to your ShipNet Commercial, Technical or Financial solutions, contact us today. Contact Us Name: Email: Phone: Company Message: < Older Post Share Tweet Share Mail ShipNet Blogs The impact of MEPC 76 on the shipping industry By John Wills • 16 Oct, 2021 • What impact will the recent MEPC 76 meeting have on the shipping industry? Our latest Shipnet blog takes a look at the future of responsible maritime operations and working to meet environmental targets. Mobility: Got it? Want it? … Need it? By John Wills • 16 Oct, 2021 • Learn more about how mobile apps have become more important for your business and how they have evolved, read in our ShipNet blog how we can help with maritime software - from anywhere Analytics SE the new solution for business from ShipNet By John Wills • 28 Sep, 2021 • Analytics SE Analysis definition:} The detailed study or examination of something in order to understand more about it… So what? The so what is that if you don’t understand enough about what’s going on in your business, you will never be able to improve it, change it or make the most of it. Basically, you’ll never really be able to get any better. The ShipNetters have had their thinking caps on for a while now and in line with all the exciting things we are doing, this is probably one of the most important. We’re pretty excited here at SNHQ and hope you are too! (Drum roll) Please welcome Analytics SE into the ShipNet family of solutions to help drive your business to be better. Apart of from all the great features to give you a better understanding of what’s happening on your vessel and a simple way to interrogate the data you have, you can use it anywhere on any device. Handy when you are away from your desk, stuck in transit, or in a meeting and you need some insight quickly. As experts in marine technology, we work closely with our customers, listening to what they need to add real value and ensure they get products that help solve their own very specific set of problems and this solution is another demonstration of our commitment that. What does it do, I hear you cry! Comprising dashboards within ShipNetOne, Analytics SE shows you how changes you make to your organisation are viewed against a baseline of historical practice. Most businesses have valuable data lost in operational systems, but no integrated way of managing and displaying that information. With over 100 standard dashboards immediately available, you can identify areas of strategic interest, establish quickly and easily performance over time, and observe changes in performance in real time as the impacts of strategic change are realised. This means that ROI and benefits can be identified and measured as they happen, taking the guesswork out of managing major change, ultimately helping you; Deliver tactical value This can be as simple as identifying where best practice already exists through comparative analysis. If one ship consistently outperforms it’s sisters in terms of fuel economy, this can be easily seen through analytics and efforts to replicate that success (and multiply the savings) can begin. Plan strategically At its heart, analytics is any data-driven process that provides insight. It can encompass both historical and predictive information, and its goal is to transform data in to insight that aids the your business and the plans you have for it. Create competitive advantage It’s a fact of life that businesses with the best insight move faster and further in a competitive environment, often achieving goals and returns that simply wouldn’t be attainable without those analytic tools. In a business with razor fine margins, such as shipping, it’s more important than ever that all costs are minimised, and all revenues maximised. Simply put, every little counts. So don’t just know your business, really understand it and make your business brilliant. Look what we’ve been up to – see the new ShipNet Dry Docking App By John Wills • 16 Aug, 2021 • We all know the power of the app, the ease it brings to our daily life, performing actions much faster than a mobile website and that is why, we here at ShipNet, have been working behind the scenes to make life better for people like … Read More The post Look what we’ve been up to – see the new ShipNet Dry Docking App appeared first on ShipNet. How to reduce paperwork in Ship Planned Maintenance & Safety By Basujit Chakravarty • 18 Dec, 2020 • Your Fleet Management teams generate an overwhelming amount of paperwork when performing their maintenance routines or submitting their monthly forms. According to a recent report, up to 79% of seafarers felt that repeated tasks required too much documentation and paperwork. They cited that excessive admin … Read More The post How to reduce paperwork in Ship Planned Maintenance & Safety appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for elements 10, 11, 12, and 13 By Basujit Chakravarty • 14 Dec, 2020 • In this final article in our series on achieving TMSA 3 Compliance we review the last 4 elements: 10, 11, 12, and 13. Our previous article looked at elements 7, 8, and 9. These elements cover management of change, incident reporting, investigation and … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for elements 10, 11, 12, and 13 appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 4, 5, and 6 By Basujit Chakravarty • 24 Nov, 2020 • In the first article in this series on TMSA 3 Compliance, we reviewed how Tanker Companies can achieve compliance for the first three elements consisting of: Leadership and the safety management system, Recruitment and management of shore-based personnel, Recruitment, management, and wellbeing of vessel personnel. … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 4, 5, and 6 appeared first on ShipNet. How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 1, 2, and 3 By Basujit Chakravarty • 18 Nov, 2020 • There is increasing pressure on tanker companies and their technical teams to ensure safety by achieving TMSA 3 compliance. The program encourages companies to assess their safety management systems against key performance indicators while providing a minimum expected level (as well as three additional … Read More The post How to achieve TMSA 3 Compliance for Elements 1, 2, and 3 appeared first on ShipNet. Why now is the time to implement your Business Continuity Plan By John Wills • 16 Nov, 2020 • Cast your mind back to March 2020. World leaders announced enforcements of lockdowns worldwide to combat the spread of COVID-19. Therefore, many businesses in the industry have now adopted a new remote working strategy as part of their business continuity plan. Moreover, it … Read More The post Why now is the time to implement your Business Continuity Plan appeared first on ShipNet. ShipConnect Video By John Wills • 09 Nov, 2020 • The ShipNet ShipConnect and MRV solution combines the ability to easily deploy and capture all performance-related information from your vessels which updates your shore staff directly, with no manual duplication of work. At the same time enabling performance analysis and reporting More Posts CONTACT US Grensevningen 9, 0661 Oslo, Norway sales@shipnet.no Phone: +47 21 01 92 00 See our Global locations © 2021 All Rights Reserved | ShipNet USEFUL LINKS Home Shipping Solutions Knowledge Library Blog Contact Privacy LET’S CONNECT Looking for something? Use the up and down arrows to select a result. Press enter to go to the selected search result. Touch device users can use touch and swipe gestures. Website design by head on creative copy and design ©