The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, there is one product manager who works at an independent bookstore that has found a way to not only survive, but also to thrive even as they sell to the same customers that Amazon does. It has not always been easy to be a product manager for an independent bookstore. So how did this product manager do it?

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

NASCAR product managers try to attract a new fan base Image Credit: roger blake So when I say “NASCAR” to you, what do you think of? NASCAR is in a difficult position. The problem that the NASCAR product managers are facing is that fans warmly nostalgic for Old Dixie are aging out.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2023

A treatment for Alzheimer’s was botched Image Credit: Diverse Stock Photos The one thing that every product manager would love to have would be a product that everyone needed. Over at Biogen, their product managers thought that they just might have such a product. What went wrong?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2021

Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. This is exactly how life must be for product managers who are involved in the fracking industry. A product management job in this industry has been one to have for a long time. The Problem With Sand.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 8, 2023

With deliveries, sometimes later is better Image Credit: Javi The good news is that your customer has ordered your product. As a product manager, how should you go about dealing with this delay? When a customer orders a product, they’d really like to have that product at the moment that they place the order.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 20, 2023

Walmart product managers think that they know how to compete with Amazon Image Credit: Ben Schumin Let’s face it: being a product manager at Walmart is both the best of worlds and the worst of worlds. Supercenters are sprawling stores of around 180,000 square feet offering 100,000 products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 4, 2021

The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. This is the way that we’ve always done it. along with the U.K.’s

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Product Managers bet big on breakfast and Covid-19 has changed everything Image Credit: sstrieu. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure thing to bet on: breakfast. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure thing to bet on: breakfast.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 17, 2019

The product managers at Amazon are going to have to sharpen their skills and review their product development definition in order to go into battle with the product managers at Walmart. The Amazon product managers are locked in a battle over faster shipping speeds with Walmart. The Coming Battle.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

Grocery store product managers are deciding what goes where Image Credit: Erin Sparling. Traditionally this has been controlled by the big food manufacturing firms who told the grocery stores where their products were to be displayed. Product Managers Take Back The Grocery Shelves. However, now things are changing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Botox product managers now have to face new rivals Image Credit: Leslie Nguyen. Good news for product managers – nobody likes to get old! What this means for product managers is that there is a huge market for products that will allow us to avoid looking like we are getting older. The Power Of Botox.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

How can product managers get millennials interested in jewelry? Being a product manager for a high-end jewelry company would be a pretty good job to have. You really would not have to sell all that much of your product in order to have a good year. However, these product managers have started to run into a problem.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 29, 2019

Over at Gillette , since they make razors, they spend a lot of time thinking about how men shave and they have reached a startling conclusion : their products cost too much! The first are critics who have been saying that Gillette products cost too much. The Gillette product managers have always done it this way.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 30, 2021

Delivery apps are starting to take a bigger bite out of restaurant revenues Image Credit: Once upon a time it used to be easy to be a restaurant product manager. This is good news for restaurant product managers; however, it comes with a catch that is causing them to rethink their product development definition.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 23, 2022

Cigarette product managers see change coming and are trying to prepare Image Credit: Lacey Krusmark. Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. You are responsible for a product that is both addictive and reviled. Young people seem to getting the message and are less likely to start to use your products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 1, 2020

Restaurant product managers are scrambling to change their product development definition and find ways to keep the doors (virtually) open even as their customers are being urged to stay home. Restaurants are looking to empty malls to boost their deliveries Image Credit: Lou Stejskal.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The GE product managers are going to have to catch up with their rivals Image Credit: Asim Bharwani. The GE Reservoir Product. The good news for the GE product managers is that they do have a new product that they can go to market with. The product is called the GE Reservoir.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 24, 2019

Can their product managers change its product development definition and bring a once popular TV show back from the dead? However, now the ABC television network is betting that its product managers have the skills that will be needed in order to bring this television show back to life. Image Credit: alogou1775.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, things are starting to change for the Apple product managers. What’s a product manager to do? Who wouldn’t want to be able to put that on your product manager resume? A host of new competitors have shown up and are challenging the Apple product managers when it comes to music sales.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 11, 2020

Product managers need to know how to not get fired Image Credit: Hammonton Photography. Let’s talk about what you need to do as product manager in order to hold on to your job. Try to position yourself so that if they let you go, a lot of projects would at best slow down and at worst grind to a halt.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2019

General Mills product managers are looking for new product ideas at startups Image Credit: Mike Mozart. There are exciting product manager jobs and then there are the product manager jobs at the really big food companies. Venture Capital Investing By Big Food Companies.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It turns out that if you are a product manager who works for either Coke or Pepsi right now, things are not going so well for you. and 7.7%, respectively and that can’t look good on anyone’s product manager resume. The market for their diet sodas is starting to tank. However, the news is not all bad.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You would think that the Sam’s Club product managers would have a real challenge on their hands when they went to China. Clearly the China Sam’s Club product managers have been using the right product development definition. So how did the Sam’s Club product managers pull this off? In the U.S.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

TV Dinners are coming back, will product managers be ready? Is this a meal that product managers could once again make popular? Sales of their well known food products are dropping and they have not been able to figure out what to do about it. Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. So let’s picture a typical evening for you.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. Bringing in fresh energy and creativity, we create space for everyone to be involved in shaping the future and making a positive impact.” In 2010 I worked as a project manager for a web agency. I was responsible for managing software development projects.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Product managers at the large firms realize that the smaller kiranas stores simply have better economics than they do. Who wouldn’t want to add entering this market to their product manager resume? In India, mom-and-pop stores are slaying the big chains Image Credit: Chris Piascik. The Challenge Of Kiranas. In the U.S.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2017

Pepsi’s product managers screwed up Diet Pepsi, can they fix it? I think that we do need to hand it to the Pepsi product managers – at least on paper they did everything that they really should have done. One year ago, the Pepsi product managers rolled out a new version of their Diet Pepsi product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Apple has decided to offer different products at different times Image Credit: Matt Madd. Let’s talk about the product that you are responsible for. How many different versions of that product are you currently offering? When you create a new version of your product (e.g. Apple’s New Product Release Strategy.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 7, 2017

However, if I was a product manager over at Victoria’s Secret, bras would make up a big part of my day. Well, unfortunately for the Victoria’s Secret product managers their market seems to have shifted on them. The reason for this is because the sales of bras makes up roughly 35% of their total sales.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 30, 2018

Wouldn’t it be great to be a product manager at Starbucks ? Clearly the Starbucks product managers need to do something. Clearly the Starbucks product managers need to do something. How should they change their product development definition? Well, if you liked coffee it would be a great job.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2017

YouTube product managers have some real challenges ahead of them Image Credit: redsoul300. Every product manager dreams of being in charge of a successful product. You can well imagine what a great job it must be to be a product manager who works for YouTube. Challenges That YouTube Is Facing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 21, 2018

However, it turns out that the world of golf contains some major product battles that have nothing to do with any of these things. However, it turns out that the world of golf contains some major product battles that have nothing to do with any of these things. They are the biggest manufacturer and their premier product is the ProVI.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 4, 2019

Product managers need to be aware of the impact of changes to their product Image Credit: Monito – Money Transfer Co. As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to have is more customers. These hopes and dreams are no different for product managers who work in the restaurant industry.

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