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Product Managers Get Interested In Drive-Throughs

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Delivering products to customers in cars is becoming more popular Image Credit: Michael Steeber As product managers our job is to create products that our potential customers will want. We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about how we are going to deliver our products to our customers.

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

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Product managers have to practice being frenemies with banks Image Credit: 401(K) 2012. Just imagine if you were a product manager at one of the big technology firms out there (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc.). The Problem With Banks. The world of personal finance is huge and very tempting to them.

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Facebook Product Managers Launch A New Way To Pay

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The product managers at Facebook have real problem on their hands. This means that they have to sit around and review their product development definition as they try to identify new products that can appeal to their over 2 billion users. Let’s face it: the Facebook product managers may be on to something here.

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Do Product Managers Need To Become Less Perfect?

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Product managers adopt a lo-fi approach to advertising their products Image Credit: nefasth When we think about how we want to present our products to our potential customers, I think that we can all agree that we’d like to make the product look as attractive as possible.

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Product Managers Need To Know What It Means When Partners Go Bankrupt

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What is a product manager to do when a partner goes bankrupt? In order to be a successful product manager, often we will have to use our product development definition to find partners for our company to work with. Product managers need to understand that this creates a downward spiral.

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Strip Mall Product Managers Look For A Second Chance At Success

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Once upon a time, being a product manager for a strip mall was a pretty good job. Your mall was a mecca for the local population and so it was easy to attract customers and all your product development definition said that you had to do was make sure that each of your stores was leased out. However, times have changed.

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Is It Time For Amazon’s Product Managers To Go Back To College?

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Amazon rolled out a product that went away very quickly, who screwed up? All of this success has put some pressure on the Amazon product managers. As product managers we all know what this means – new products. However, that also means that 10% of that very large number is owed to banks.

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