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The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Changes at Google will have an impact on product managers Image Credit: Mary Crandall. In order to be a successful product manager, we need to have data. In fact the more data that we can get our hands on, the better we are able to do our jobs.
The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Waste Management product managers are dealing with a lot of change Image Credit: eltpics. The product managers over at Waste Management have always had a lot to deal with.
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The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Robots are being seen as a solution to a throughput problem Image Credit: Jeremy Noble. Customers have become used to going online and placing orders for items that then magically show up at their door. Nowhere has this been more transforming than in the ordering of grocery items.
The Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 21, 2022
The next big market for games will be on mobile phones Image Credit: Vain Shame. At the end of a long day, many people like to go home and spend the evening losing themselves in playing video games on their home entertainment systems. Games for these systems have grown into a big business.
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Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Even existing products can be made to seem to be hip Image Credit: Mike Mozart. So here’s a classic problem that product managers are faced with all the time: you are responsible for an established product. Time has passed.
The Accidental Product Manager
MARCH 14, 2022
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.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Can product managers successfully promote e-cigarettes using social media? Image Credit: Lindsay Fox. 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.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product.
The Accidental Product Manager
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. You would think that a business as well established as the cosmetic business would not see a lot of disruption.
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The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 10, 2022
How much to charge and how to charge for it are video game questions Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. Can anyone besides me remember back in the day when you wanted to play a video game and you’d stuff your pockets with quarters and head on down to the video parlor ?
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Product managers are starting to move away from using Amazon Image Credit: Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine. So if you were a product manager and you wanted to both advertise your product to your customers and make it easy for them to buy it from you, how would you go about doing that?
The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 3, 2022
Image Credit: * Nono *. Just in case you didn’t know it, Gucci is a one of the largest and most successful fashion brands out there. Everyone wants to both own and be seen wearing Gucci apparel.
The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 24, 2022
Why just drink soda when you can get soda with a kick? Image Credit: Person-with-No Name. Product managers who are responsible for selling alcohol are in a bit of a bind these days.
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The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 10, 2022
How can an elevator be designed to meet customer needs? Image Credit: Melissa Maples. I’d be willing to bet that most of us really don’t spend that much time thinking about elevators.
The Accidental Product Manager
JANUARY 31, 2022
: It is possible to both survive and thrive even when you are facing Amazon Image Credit: darwin.wins. If there is one job that most of us would agree that we would not like to have these days, it’s any job in which we would be going up against Amazon.
The Accidental Product Manager
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Product shortfalls are forcing product managers to use magic Image Credit: Andy Oakley. Every product manager wants their customers to be able to buy their product when they decide to make a purchase.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Strip malls have come and gone, but could they be coming back? Image Credit: Caribb. Once upon a time, being a product manager for a strip mall was a pretty good job.
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Data has gone from a mere result of applications & processes to being crowned king. Picking the right avenue to data architecture depends on your organization’s needs. Development teams should build in stages, starting with a task that can be solved.
The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Gyms can make malls a go-to destination Image Credit: Chun Kit To. If you’d like to sign up for a challenging product manager job, then perhaps you’d like to look into what it would take to become the product manager for a mall.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 18, 2021
When customers cut back on spending, product managers have to go to work Image Credit: CafeCredit.com. The arrival of the Covid-19 virus has upended the lives of most of our customers. Many people have lost their jobs and just about everyone has been forced to stay home.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
How can Peloton keep growing after the pandemic is over? Image Credit: Tony Webster. You might be thinking that there is no good side to a pandemic. However, you wouldn’t be thinking that if you were a product manager who works for the stationary bike company Peloton.
The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 11, 2021
It all about the experience Image Credit: Praveen. So product manager, what does your product look like? No, I mean when your customer first has a chance to get their hands on their version of your product, what does it look like? Does it show up in a nondescript cardboard box?
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The Accidental Product Manager
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Just because they are busy does not mean that they are making money Image Credit: GotCredit. So product manager, how do you measure how successful you are being?
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Tech product managers have to prepare for restrictions on data sharing Image Credit: If you take a moment to think about it, U.S. tech product managers have actually had it pretty easy.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Product managers are learning how to get more money from food products Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Product managers for food products are facing a couple of different challenges right now. The first is that the cost of making food is currently rising.
The Accidental Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
The secret to keeping a product fresh is to always be reinventing it Image Credit: Albert Hsieh. Who wouldn’t want to be the product manager for a hugely popular mobile video game?
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The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the longer it will take for you to realize this value. A blueprint helps you define your new solution, plot out how to get there, and determine what you’ll need in terms of time and resources.
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 9, 2021
Product managers start to bet on smaller grocery warehouses Image Credit: BG Montifar. Grocery product managers are starting to face a real problem. More and more of their business is starting to be driven by customers going online and ordering food and then expecting it to show up at their door.
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 2, 2021
It turns out that there’s too much sand for fracking Image Credit: Andy Arthur. Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. Everyday things seem to be rushing forward faster and faster, it’s all that we can do to keep up.
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 25, 2022
What is a product manager to do when a partner goes bankrupt? Image Credit: Phillip Pessar. 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.
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 26, 2021
It turns out that even in this modern age, store shelves are still important Image Credit: Marcus Johnstone. Product managers are starting to discover that something that we may have stopped thinking about in this digital age is still very, very important.
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The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 19, 2021
It turns out that Covid-19 vaccines need to be kept cold Image Credit: proteinbiochemist. The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring.
The Accidental Product Manager
JULY 18, 2022
Competition is heating up for coffee in China Image Credit: dunhilaryu. When you want to get a cup of coffee, where do you go? In the U.S., most of us generally head to a Starbucks.
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 29, 2022
Some vaping products have been banned, but are there ways around this? Image Credit: kthtrnr. Ah, but to be the product manager for a vaping product.
The Accidental Product Manager
AUGUST 22, 2022
Grocery store product managers are deciding what goes where Image Credit: Erin Sparling. In your local grocery store there is a battle going on. In a grocery store, the most valuable real estate are the shelves.
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Today, sophisticated capabilities such as adaptive security, predictive analytics, workflow, and writeback are taking analytics far beyond basic dashboards and reports. With cutting-edge capabilities like these, application teams are able to differentiate their products from the competition.
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