Product Managers Try To Sell Shots As A Way To Stay Healthy

Wellness shots are supposed to be good for you even if they taste bad

As product managers, one of the most important things that we do is to use our product development definition to create products that our customers are going to want. There are lot of different ways that we can go about doing this. We can place them in attractive packages, we can get celebrities to endorse … Read more

Is This An Amazon Product Manager Failure?

Amazon is abandoning its restaurant delivery business

I’m pretty sure that by now we all know who Amazon is. They are the very large company that started out as a book seller and over time has morphed into a company that sells just about everything and seems to do just about everything. The Amazon product managers seem to have an almost golden … Read more

Product Managers And The Problem With Cannabis

The problem with cannabis is that it tastes really, really bad

I can only speak for myself, but if I was a product manager who was put in charge of a marijuana product, I would be very, very happy. Think about it, what does every product manager want: we want our customers to want our product. When it comes to the product development definition for marijuana, … Read more

Product Managers Try To Learn Covid-19 Lessons From Hermès Handbags

Hermès purses are in high demand even during the pandemic

Just in case you didn’t know it, Hermès is a company that makes ladies’ purses among other things. Hermès is a French high fashion luxury goods manufacturer established in 1837. It specializes in leather, lifestyle accessories, home furnishings, perfumery, jewelry, watches and ready-to-wear. Just like every other business in the world, the arrival of the … Read more

Product Managers Start To Deal With The Virtual Assistant Problem

Voice controlled devices can't do a lot of things

So when you walk into the space that you live in, what’s the first thing that you do? For many of us, the first thing that we do is to shout out “Hey, Alexa turn on my music” or “Hey Google, turn on the lights in the kitchen.” These virtual assistants who are always there … Read more

Product Managers Start To Use AI In Health Care Products

Product managers have to overcome hurdles to create AI products

If you are a product manager and you really want to make your life complicated, then what you should do is decide to develop a health care product. This is going to make your life complicated in a bunch of different ways. First off, any product that you create is going to have to be … Read more

Can Chinese Product Managers Make Tiny Cars Successful?

Very small cars are popular in China, can they stay that way?

So I really enjoy driving my car. I get in, fire it up, hear the rumble of that motor (ok, so it’s a 4-cylinder motor – it’s not that much of a rumble), I pull out into the street, press the gas petal to the floor, and I’m off! Well, it turns out that over … Read more

Product Managers Get Familiar With Microbrands

Microbrands are changing how new products can be introduced

As product managers, the one thing that I believe that most of us feel that we have a pretty good handle on is how new products are created and introduced. I mean, we’ve worked at companies where this was probably part of our job and so we’ve had to sit through all of the planning … Read more