The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 10, 2023

Roku product managers are creating an ad-supported streaming strategy Image Credit: Mike Mozart The product managers at the streaming hardware provider Roku had a bit of a problem on their hands. Say Hello To Streaming Ads The product managers at connected-TV giant Roku are betting big on ad-supported streaming.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 12, 2021

However, it turns out that for the product managers who work at these food delivery firms, all is not so good. Product managers need to understand that their customers have become spoiled. This means that restaurant and grocer product managers are now rushing to satisfy the exact same demand.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. Google and Apple both have competing products. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. Do customers want to trust Alexa with their health data? Image Credit: Jeff Eaton.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Home Depot product managers are not giving up in the fight against Amazon Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working in the field of retail goods, there is one word that should strike fear in your heart: Amazon. The Home Depot product managers have discovered that in the U.S.,

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 3, 2020

Product managers think that this might be the time to take over Image Credit: Marco Verch. Plant-based meat product managers are racing to update their product development definition and fill in for missing cuts of traditional meat in supermarket meat cases, after the coronavirus disrupted operations at meatpacking plants.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 11, 2022

Chinese product managers are trying to win over millions of Indian users Image Credit: Neha Singh. If you were the product manager for a new social media app, what would your #1 goal be every day when you went to work? There is only one answer to that question: to sign up more users for you app. billion people.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

However, you wouldn’t be thinking that if you were a product manager who works for the stationary bike company Peloton. When the pandemic is over, how are these product managers going to keep a good thing going? The benefit of the pandemic is that the company was able to report its first quarterly profit.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 3, 2021

Meal kit product managers need to find new ways to be successful Image Credit: Alyson Hurt. The world that we live in is changing and what this means for product managers is that we need to find ways to change with it. The challenge for the product managers at these meal kit companies is how to stay in business.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 20, 2020

Restaurant product managers are facing one of the toughest times that they have ever had to deal with. Many restaurants are reporting that their sales have fallen by up to 48% from a year ago. What can product managers learn from the changes that are sweeping through the restaurant industry?

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 22, 2021

As product managers, one of the most important things that we do is to use our product development definition to create products that our customers are going to want. We can place them in attractive packages, we can get celebrities to endorse them, and in the case of food products, we can make them taste good.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As sales slip, product managers have to hit the highway to be successful Image Credit: Justin Ennis. However, the product managers over at Harley Davidson are struggling just like everyone else and they are going to have to start doing different things if they want their motorcycles to keep rolling off the lot.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Product managers know that people are always concerned about their health. From a product manager point-of-view what is good about all of this worry is that people are willing to buy products that will tell them how their bodies are doing. So just exactly what kind of health care products are we talking about here?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 5, 2021

Netflix will have to do battle for subscribers for the first time Image Credit: Brett Taylor. I am willing to bet that just about everyone who is reading this is currently a subscriber to the Netflix video service. The Netflix product managers are well aware that they currently have a problem on their hands.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 22, 2020

Product managers have to overcome hurdles to create AI products Image Credit: Photo by Hitesh Choudhary on Unsplash. If you are a product manager and you really want to make your life complicated, then what you should do is decide to develop a health care product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

However, if some very smart product managers have their way, in the future you might be seeing driverless cars whizzing around. Will their product managers be able to solve all of the challenges that will be coming with this new technology? Groceries That Come To You. It will also be shorter than most compact cars.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just about every business was shut for a period of time and every product manager had their carefully created product development definition disrupted by the events that were caused by the pandemic. Product managers who work in the fast food business are among the ones who seem to be getting back on their feet the fastest.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Amazon’s product managers seem to be out of fashion when it comes to Europe Image Credit: Sangudo. One area where the Amazon product managers are still struggling is in Europe. What can the Amazon product managers do to fix this problem? All of this would look good on someone’s product manager resume.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2020

I can only speak for myself, but if I was a product manager who was put in charge of a marijuana product, I would be very, very happy. Think about it, what does every product manager want: we want our customers to want our product. This includes product managers at some of the biggest brewers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 3, 2017

Comcast product managers have discovered how to get more customers Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you are a product manager working for a cable company these people are the bane of your existence. If you were a cable TV product manager, what could you do about this bad trend? Just not traditional cable TV.

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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 Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 3, 2018

However, what a lot of product managers may not be aware of is that Amazon’s grocery dreams don’t stop with Whole Foods. Instead, they have their own plans about changing their product development definition and finding out what an Amazon grocery store that they built from the ground up would look like.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Car manufactures are changing their product development definition and moving more and more of the car’s control and monitoring systems over to these centralized dashboards in order to attempt to simplify the process of driving their cars. Glitches which cause a display to crash have also been reported.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For a product manager there can be no bigger day than the day that your product gets launched. You’ve been working on creating the best product possible based on your product development definition for who knows how long and finally the time has come to show the world what you have created. What went wrong?

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This means that product managers spend their time working on trying to make the process of buying food from their restaurants easier and quicker for customers. In order to distinguish their food from everyone else’s, the Chipolte product managers have developed an obsession with serving high-quality, fresh ingredients.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

However, what a lot of us may not realize is that, depending on where you live, Amazon has expanded their product development definition to sell food. Private label brands, or house brands as they are sometimes known, are products that the seller of the groceries creates. Lots of food. What Are Private Label Brands? In the U.S.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The micro blogging service has over 313 million monthly users (just think about adding that to your product manager resume). This is all very impressive, but a bigger question that the Twitter product managers have to answer is just how many people are seeing all of those tweets? The answer is that they don’t know.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Theranos is in bad shape, but they have introduced a new product Image Credit: Wikipedia. They claimed that they had invented a product that with just a minute amount of blood from an individual could run a large number of health tests. To be a product manager at Theranos in the early days must have been a great job indeed.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Digital play has started to cause problems for Lego product managers Image Credit: WRme2. That would have looked good on anyone’s product manager resume. However, recently something happened: they reported a drop in sales. What should the Lego product managers do? What Went Wrong At Lego?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 2, 2017

In the world of electronic books, product managers are having to modify their product development definition and try out some new ideas in order to see if they can capture more customers. Sounds like a good goal to add to a product manager resume, but how can you make this happen? Image Credit: CollegeDegrees360.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 24, 2017

So here’s an interesting question for you: when you customer uses up or runs out of your product, how do they go about ordering more from you? Perhaps this question would be better stated “how hard is it to order more of your product?” The product managers at Amazon sell a lot of products that customers run out of.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 9, 2017

What this means for packaged food product managers is that they now have to find ways to change their product development definition and make their list of ingredients shorter. The goal for packaged food product managers is to attempt to get their product’s list of ingredients to be as short as possible.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2018

The product managers over at McDonalds have a problem on their hands. What’s happening is the company’s flagship product is no longer relevant. What’s a product manager to do? The McDonald’s product managers have tried to keep up with the times.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Perhaps its time to cut the middleman out of selling your products Image Credit: TruckPR. How does a customer get their hands on your product? If it is like most products, your product development definition called for a middleman to be involved. Firms are reporting that their online sales grew by 30% in 2013.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2017

However, now it’s looking like the product managers at Twitter might have a problem on their hands…. However, the problem that Twitter is facing right now is that its growth is slowing and in the fast paced world of social media that’s the one thing that the Twitter product managers don’t want to happen.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2017

Product managers for bar code scanners have it pretty good these days. Their products are in high demand by companies such as Amazon who operate the large warehouses that contain thousands of items, each identified by a unique bar code. Why Are Product Improvements Needed? How Will The Products Be Made Better?

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