Times Are Changing For Recycling Product Managers
The product managers at Waste Management have had to struggle with changes in the recycling industry and create a new business model
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How Should Starbucks Product Managers Sell Coffee In China?
Starbucks is starting to experience new competition in China for the delivery of coffee and they need to expand what they are already doing
Product Managers Prepare For The Next Step In Making Payments
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
How Can Product Managers Deal With Faulty Components?
Product managers at General Motors’ China product plant have discovered that they electric car batteries that they were planning on using may be no good
Can Chinese Product Managers Make Tiny Cars Successful?
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
What Will It Take For Sam’s Club To Be Successful In China?
In the world of shopping in bulk, you have choices. Specifically, when you need a huge amount of toilet paper or paper towels, you can choose to go to either Sam’s Club or Costco.Where do you choose to go? If you are like most people, if you have a choice you generally choose go to … Read more
How The Yum Product Managers Are Adapting To A Changing World
I can’t actually tell you if it would be one of the best product management jobs to have, but I can tell you that it would certainly be one of the most delicious. What am I talking about? I’m talking about being a product manager who works for YUM Brands. You know, the company that … Read more
Apple Shows Product Managers How To Get More For More
You sorta gotta have some pity for the poor product managers over at Apple. I mean yes, they are responsible for one of the most popular products out there: the iPhone. However, we are living in an age in which just about everyone who wants to have a smartphone already has one and so the … Read more
Going Mobile In China: Is This A Good Idea For McDonalds And Yum?
Let’s face it – being a product manager at a billion dollar global restaurant firm cannot be an easy job. Over at both McDonalds and Yum Brands (think KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell) their product managers realize just how important the China market is to their firms. Both firms realize that they need to … Read more
Product Manager Lessons From An Online Company In China
Times are tough. Times are tough all over. This just happens to include China. Over there, one of China’s most prominent web-based companies is taking some innovative steps to deal with the current global recession. What they are doing to stay successful holds a lot of lessons for product managers everywhere. When Things Get Tight… … Read more