The Accidental Product Manager
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So what’s a product manager supposed to do when your biggest product has been discontinued? This is the challenge that was facing the Airbus product managers. The company had been building the massive A380 airplane that they had created in … Read more
Product managers in Japan have started to create clear versions of their product to appeal to customers who want healthy drinks
It almost goes without saying that we all know about Amazon – the book seller who has turned into the seller of just about everything. What you may not know about Amazon is that they decided a while back to that they were going to enter into the lucrative video gaming market. With the power … Read more
In order to make sure that people want to buy their products, product managers have to stay on top of changes in the technology that people use to make payments. This used to be fairly easy: once upon a time everyone used cash, then they migrated to using credit and debit cards, next came PayPal … Read more
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
If you were a product manager at Walmart’s Sam’s Club, there is one thing that would keep you up at night: Costco. You’d know that your product development definition was broken because the customers that you wanted to come into your Sam’s Club stores all too often were heading over to shop at Costco. The … Read more
Game product managers have started to move their most popular titles to mobile platforms in order to capture new customers
Drinks are easy to make but hard to market Image Credit: Photo by Kal Loftus on Unsplash You would think that being a product manager for a hot new start-up beverage would be a great job, right? Somewhat surprisingly, you’d be wrong. It turns out that it’s fairly easy to come up with the idea … Read more
The product managers at Amazon are once again trying to get luxury product manufactures to start to sell their products on Amazon
When you think about all of the products that product managers are responsible for, there are a number of them that come to mind as being “difficult” products to successfully manage. For one reason or another, these products are difficult to talk about and therefore are difficult to market. In this category go condoms, guns, … Read more