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What Went Wrong For The Peloton Product Managers?

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The Peloton product managers were unable to predict the future Image Credit: Phillip Pessar How great would it be to be a product manager who was responsible for a very popular high priced exercise bike? This is the position that the Peloton product managers found themselves in just before the pandemic hit.

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How Can Product Managers Deal With Faulty Components?

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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. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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Vaping Product Managers Walk Away From A New Product

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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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Product Managers Struggle To Come Up With A Better Drink

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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? This market is littered with the remains of companies that showed up and then just faded away.

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Product Managers Promote The Vaping Of Vitamins

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Product managers are taking a different approach to vaping Image Credit: Lindsay Fox. It’s currently a tough time to be a product manager for vaping products in the U.S. Vaping products exploded on the scene a while back and have become very popular. Why Vape Vitamins?

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Facebook Product Managers Launch A New Way To Pay

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The product managers at Facebook have real problem on their hands. This means that they have to sit around and review their product development definition as they try to identify new products that can appeal to their over 2 billion users. Let’s face it: the Facebook product managers may be on to something here.

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Can Product Managers Use Data To Make It Through A Pandemic?

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Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Your best laid plans for how you were going to boost the success of your product at the beginning of the year got turned on their heads. Product managers have to be ready to act upon what the data is telling them.