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. Google Shuts Down A Source Of Consumer Information.

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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. These changes may affect everything that these tech product managers do. Data Privacy Changes Are Coming.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, doing many of these things can be a challenge for older computer users. As the number of senior computer users continues to grow, this is opening a brand-new market that product managers are trying to determine how best to fill. People are moving into retirement communities with five to seven devices.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Product managers start to equip their tires with AI Image Credit: Yamanaka Tamaki When was the last time that you thought about the tires that are on your car? Either the “low pressure” bulb on your dashboard lit up or you had a flat tire.

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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.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 7, 2023

Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created. In the world of music performances the change was sudden and dramatic: all concerts were cancelled.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For the past few years the product managers at the big drug store chains have been struggling. What these product managers need is a new way to get people to want to come to their stores. What these product managers need is a new way to get people to want to come to their stores.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 20, 2023

Walmart product managers think that they know how to compete with Amazon Image Credit: Ben Schumin Let’s face it: being a product manager at Walmart is both the best of worlds and the worst of worlds. Supercenters are sprawling stores of around 180,000 square feet offering 100,000 products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Finding counterfeits is half the battle Image Credit: cce Just imagine if you were a product manager who was responsible for a very popular product. Perhaps this is a fashion product or a high tech product that everyone wants. As a product manager part of your job would be to put a stop to this kind of thievery.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2023

The goal is to build a community of repeat customers Image Credit: Flazingo Photos Let’s face it: it’s pretty easy to set up shop online. All you really need is a website, a way to take orders, and the ability to ship purchased goods to your customers. Since it is so easy to do, everyone seems to be doing it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. However, something that we often don’t consider is that if a product is popular, it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 25, 2021

So product manager, how do you measure how successful you are being? If you are like most of us, if you are always on the move and always have things that you need to be doing you are probably feeling pretty good about how things are going for both your product and your company. What are they doing wrong? and Postmates Inc.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 20, 2019

So if you are running a business and you’d like to keep your customers aware and informed about what products you are offering, what’s the best way to go about doing this? In our modern age, a lot of product managers would look at their product development definition and say that you need to update your web site and they’d be correct.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The pizza market is in the midst of undergoing a high tech transformation and its product managers are going to have to get ready to deal with a brave new world. What kind of changes to their product development definition are they going to be facing and how will they deal with them? It’s All About Data.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 6, 2022

Facebook product managers just can’t find enough news to use Image Credit: Megan Trace. The product managers at Facebook are facing a serious challenge. They have to find ways to expand their product development definition and make Facebook more interesting and relevant to their visitors.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 8, 2022

Once upon a time people would go out to the store and purchase a CD with the latest music album on it. Music streaming services have shown up and now people can tune in to listen to song after song in a wide variety of styles and types. Which streaming service will serve this new market? Image Credit: Gabriel Jorby.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 18, 2022

In order to make sure that people want to buy their products, product managers have to stay on top of changes in the technology that people use to make payments. This used to be fairly easy: once upon a time everyone used cash, then they migrated to using credit and debit cards, next came PayPal and the like.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 12, 2021

Pop-up product managers have to be quick on their feet Image Credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York. As product managers we are always being told that we need to better understand our customers. In the world of retail products this is especially true. What Are Pop-Ups?

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 4, 2021

People want to be able to monitor their health and control their data Image Credit: Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash. Product managers know that people are always concerned about their health. This demand for more personal information is driving new product development definitions and a new set of products is being created.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 22, 2022

Grocery store product managers are deciding what goes where Image Credit: Erin Sparling. Traditionally this has been controlled by the big food manufacturing firms who told the grocery stores where their products were to be displayed. Product Managers Take Back The Grocery Shelves. However, now things are changing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 7, 2019

Focus groups are the way that product managers used to find out how customers felt about their product Image Credit: RSNY. When a product manager is put in charge of a product, one of the first questions that they would like to be able to answer is just exactly what do potential customers think about the product?

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

Image Credit: Mike Mozart As a product manager, our goal is to get more people to buy our products. If you happen to be selling your products online, both you and your customers are very aware that your advertised price is not what they’ll end up paying – they also have to pay shipping costs.

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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

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? However, it’s been a really long time, when measured in video game years, and they still seem to be very popular.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 4, 2021

The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. The product managers at Ticketmaster are getting ready to face the first serious competition that they have had in decades. This is the way that we’ve always done it. along with the U.K.’s

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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. They are all losing customers to the online giant. What Is Keeping Home Depot Safe?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 30, 2023

Getting clothes that fit has always been hard to do Image Credit: S Pakhrin In the world of fashion , product managers understand that their customer’s #1 driver is that they want to look good. What’s a fashion product manager to do in order to get their products to fit?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 19, 2021

The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring. Your product development definition tells you to create more and more efficient products in order to replace the older units that your customers are using. You replace the ones that wear out and you are always looking for new customers.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How will product managers deal with the Internet of Things? What is meant by the internet of things can vary from person to person, but basically what it means is the creation of a world in which everyday objects have network connectivity which then allows them to send and receive data. Image Credit: cea +.

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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

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? A Loss Of Control.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Finding new customers requires a bit of multitasking Image Credit: Ryan Ritchie. I’m pretty sure that we all know and understand that product managers don’t work in sales. However, our career is very closely tied to the success of the product that we are responsible for.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 27, 2020

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.). However, what would you do if your biggest customers were already there? The Problem With Banks.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve heard about “the cloud” – it’s the mythical place where companies can get their programs to run and their data to be stored in such a way that they don’t have to buy any computers or storage systems. The Battle Over Databases.

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