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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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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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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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What Can India’s Paytm Mobile Payment System Teach Product Managers?

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Paytm is one such firm and their product managers have done an excellent job of conquering the Indian payment market. When this offering took off, Paytm changed their product development definition and expanded to provide payment services for buying movie tickets and paying an electricity bill. I live in the U.S.