Product Managers Deal With The Challenges Of Delivered Meals

It turns out that there is a real cost to having food delivered

What a wonderful time we are living in! With the arrival of the internet, all of sudden there is no longer a reason for any of us to have to go out to a restaurant any more. Instead, all we have to do is to bring up one of those online ordering applications, select what … Read more

Restaurant Product Managers Deal With The Challenge Of Ordering Apps

Delivery apps are starting to take a bigger bite out of restaurant revenues

Once upon a time it used to be easy to be a restaurant product manager. Your #1 job was to find ways to get more people to come to your restaurant to eat. You could offer discounts, have special events, and even add unique things to your menu. However, then times changed. That internet thing … Read more

Drugstore Product Managers Try To Solve The Last Mile Problem

CVS wants to find ways to cross the last mile to get to their customers

One of the things that every product manager would like to have would be a guaranteed customer base. We’d all love to know that there was a group of customers out there that really needed our products and would probably always be buying from us. It turns out that there are a few markets that … Read more

What Can Amazon’s Product Managers Do About All Of Those Boxes?

Is there any way that Amazon can ship fewer boxes?

Ok, so I’m willing to make a confession here. I get a little thrill each and every time I come to the front door and see an Amazon box sitting there waiting for me to bring it into the house and open it up. It’s almost like Christmas day all over again! However, the product … Read more

Can Department Store Product Managers Use The Internet To Save Their Stores?

Department stores are becoming where online products can be found

In this wonderful modern age in which we are all living, just about anything can be purchased online. However, there is a downside to this. You can’t touch online products. You can’t hold them in your hands and feel them. You can’t try them on. What’s missing from this whole online shopping experience is the … Read more

Starbucks Product Managers Try To Deliver Success

Starbucks needs to find a way to become popular once again

Starbucks needs to find a way to become popular once again Image Credit: Photo by Takahiro Sakamoto on Unspl Let’s face it: that Starbucks coffee sure does taste good. You know it, I know it, and all of those people who are currently standing in line waiting for their next cup of coffee know it … Read more

Product Managers At Tech Giants Try To Not Anger Banks With New Products

Product managers have to practice being frenemies with banks

Just imagine if you were a product manager at one of the big technology firms out there (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc.). You would always be under pressure to change your product development definition and come up with new and different ways for the company to make money. You’d probably look at all of the … Read more