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Auto Product Managers Believe Software Holds The Key To Future Success

The Accidental Product Manager

The plan is to deliver a new generation of technology-packed models that can be updated throughout their life cycle using downloadable software and provide them with customizable features unique to each of the brands. Click here to get automatic updates when The Accidental Product Manager Blog is updated. Subscribe now: Click Here!

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How Subway’s Product Managers Are Going To Come Back

The Accidental Product Manager

Sales hit a peak of $18 billion back in 2012 and then they fell for years afterward. Meanwhile, closing domestic stores and other brand changes have helped boost Subway’s average sales per store in the U.S. There were things that needed to be done in order to turn the brand around. expansion drive. Subscribe now: Click Here!

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Product Managers Get Interested In Drive-Throughs

The Accidental Product Manager

That represents a 43% increase from the previous year and a doubling in sales from 2012. leased for 20% higher than its original asking price after four different franchise operators from the same fast-food chicken brand got locked in a bidding war. A property on Long Island, N.Y., It’s your product – it’s your career.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).

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Product Managers Discover That The Circular Is Not Going Away

The Accidental Product Manager

Firms are now using a customer’s online browsing and shopping data for brands and retailers in order to determine what coupons and ads they should send to them within a few days of a customer visiting a web site. This is up an amazing 85% since 2012. Spending on circulars has increased by 85% since 2012.

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Product Managers Try To Find Stores To Fill Malls

The Accidental Product Manager

They especially like startup firms that may have gotten their start online but are now looking to expand into physical stores now that they have gotten both customers and brand recognition. Back in 2012, the volume of physical stores that were occupied by retailers who started online was 15,435 square feet.

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What exactly does a Product Manager do? Redefining Product Management function

NextBigWhat

Product Management Role Definition (courtesy Atlassian blog). It is 2012 and imagine you’re a PM at Nokia trying to beat Apple – you would need to really understand Nokia’s (tech, product and marketing) capability and play on the strengths (which could be different from an emerging competition called Apple).