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Product Managers Deal With The Problem Of Too Much Sand

The Accidental Product Manager

If you don’t believe that the market for sand has been hot, hot, hot then all you have to do is look back to 2014-2015. Back then, the business of sand was such a hot place to be that the combined market value of the six companies that were either wholly or partially dependent on the sand business was a cumulative US$18B.

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481: Lessons learned developing medical products – with Ron Richard

Product Innovation Educators

Back in the day, when you pick someone up and put them on oxygen, the oxygen cylinder goes right between their legs on the gurney as they’re transported to the ambulance. They say we’re going to move forward because the longer we take to get to market, the more money we spend. It was not very comfortable or safe.

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What Can Amazon’s Product Managers Do About All Of Those Boxes?

The Accidental Product Manager

If the Amazon product managers were able to find ways to reduce the number of boxes that they used, then they’d be able to reduce their shipping and transportation costs. on shipping and transportation. The market for boxes has a great deal of competition and their product is both generic and easily copied.

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. It includes functionality allowing a product to work in the market and generate income. Let’s consider the benefits of MVP development : MVPs Allow Businesses to Test Ideas In Markets In 2014, Hailo mobile app for calling a taxi failed.

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Crafting Success: How Understanding Context Transforms Product Development

The Product Coalition

Often, terms like ‘business’ context or ‘market’ context get thrown around. And why is McKinsey, the world’s premier management consulting firm, talking about it? Uber, a company born in the tech-savvy environment of Silicon Valley, initially tailored its services for a market comfortable with digital payments and craving convenience.

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Product Managers Bring Food Delivery To Small Towns

The Accidental Product Manager

One of the most hotly contested markets right now is the home delivery of food. The food delivery business is in a race and in order to dominate their market, the firms that provide this service are now expanding into places that they have never gone before. These new markets come with their own unique sets of challenges.

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Product-Led Organization

ProductPlan

Whether that product is a software application, a physical doo-dad of some kind, or a service like consulting or transportation, or warehousing, every company provides some value to customers in exchange for compensation. Lastly, they become disconnected from the market they are serving. That value is the company’s product.