The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2023

The ease of doing this is one of the challenges that product managers are facing these days. Online product managers realize this and they are currently looking for ways that they can stand out from among all of the other sellers who are online. Since it is so easy to do, everyone seems to be doing it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Taken together, these are all reasons that the product managers at McDonalds have decided that now is the time to make a change to their product development definition. The product managers at McDonalds have announced that they will be testing their own plant-based products in some markets next year.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 15, 2023

Image Credit: Being a product manager is a full-time job. The Problem With Algorithms Product managers know that it’s one thing for algorithms to set prices. Product managers are increasingly using algorithms to help them set prices for such things as plane tickets, gasoline , ride sharing and a range of other goods.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2021

Pity the poor product managers at McDonalds! However, the competitive fast food market in which they are competing is changing and this means that McDonalds has to make changes to their product development definition and get better at what they are doing. What changes will their product managers make?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 17, 2023

Patient medical records may be a new product area Image Credit: Kevin Spencer Nobody ever wants to go to the hospital. Product managers believe that that they may have an opportunity to fix this problem. The Power Of Medical Records Product managers think that they may have discovered a new source of valuable products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why being a cruise line product manager can be a very good job. Now that they have once again been granted permission to sail, how are their product managers going to go about finding ways to get their customers to come back and travel the high seas with them? Clearly passengers are willing to climb aboard.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 8, 2022

If the user subscribes to the music streaming service, they can listen to music from one specific artist or a specific set of songs. Product managers at other streaming services need to realize that Indian consumers are flocking to Gaana, analysts say, because it has been built for them. Image Credit: Gabriel Jorby.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 17, 2023

Can the Home Depot product managers keep the customers that they got? However, over at the Home Depot their product managers were able to make the most of the opportunity presented by having everyone stay at home with nothing else to do. They gained a lot of customers during the year that nobody went into work.

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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 the world of consumer products product managers have been having it pretty easy in the past few years. So what’s going on?

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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? Getting a piece of this growing market would look good on anyone’s product manager resume.

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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. How are freezer product managers going to deal with their new found popularity?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 1, 2022

Delivery wars cause product managers to search out unused spaces Image Credit: Parm Parmar. For the product managers who are working at the restaurants that are providing all of this food, times have been tough. What the product managers need is more kitchen space. A New Life For Old Malls.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2023

Fast delivery is causing problems for product managers Image Credit: Hamilton Greene Selling products online has become a part of just about every business’s operation. This has opened up new markets for product managers to go after. How should a product manager go about handling this issue?

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2021

It turns out that the answer to that question has been bothering the Amazon product managers also and so they’ve taken a look at their product development definition and come up with an answer to this issue: Amazon is rolling out their own home delivery service. The New Amazon Home Delivery Service. Here in the U.S.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 20, 2022

Product managers have to provide their customers with what they want Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. You would think that being a burger product manager would be a fairly simple job: you get the burger, you make the burger, you sell the burger. Product managers at least 10 major U.S.

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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? The company also plans on testing its software and hardware using standard cars.

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The Accidental Product Manager

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. However, this may be all about to change.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Botox product managers now have to face new rivals Image Credit: Leslie Nguyen. Good news for product managers – nobody likes to get old! What this means for product managers is that there is a huge market for products that will allow us to avoid looking like we are getting older. The Power Of Botox.

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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? This would look good on anyone’s product manager resume. Image Credit: Tony Webster.

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The Accidental Product Manager

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The pandemic is allowing grocery product managers to make changes Image Credit: Gilbert Mercier. Grocery product managers have gone a long time without having to make any big changes. Their product managers are also introducing contactless payment in all of its more than 2,200 stores.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 15, 2022

The big question for FitBit product managers is what comes next? When we think about what it would be like to be the product manager for a very successful product, we often think about something that everyone has. Riding A Wave Of Product Success. Image Credit: Mack Male. billion deal.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Product managers can do bad things too Image Credit: Photo by Alex Block on Unsplash. I’d like to tell you that the calling to become a product manager is only received by those of us with the highest morals. What this means is that in the world of product managers, there are the good ones and the not so good ones.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 27, 2022

Walmart product managers are encountering food delivery challenges Image Credit: Mike Mozart. You would think that if you were a product manager at one of the world’s largest retail companies, getting into a new line of business would not be all that hard to do. Walmart Discovers The Challenge Of Food Delivery.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 8, 2021

The LaCroix product managers have to deal with new rivals Image Credit: Mike McCune. The LaCroix product managers did very well for a long time. What should they do to keep the fizz in their product sales? Competition is coming from both Coca-Cola and Pepsi who have both introduced sparkling water products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 31, 2021

The dream of every product manager is to be responsible for a product that is so popular that it flies off of the shelves. We dream of the day that we have to spend our time worrying about how we are going to keep our product in stock because it is selling out so fast. That’s when all of the trouble started.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 13, 2020

Microbrands are changing how new products can be introduced Image Credit: Vektorlogo. As product managers, the one thing that I believe that most of us feel that we have a pretty good handle on is how new products are created and introduced. Microbrands are changing our concept of a product development definition.

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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 Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week!

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 20, 2020

Could there be any better job than being a product manager at a pizza company ? I mean, you have the ability to fully understand your product (and eat it to!), you know who your competition is, and your customers clearly want and desire your product. What more could a product manager ask for?

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Product managers have to adjust to dealing with customers who pose a risk Image Credit: Dean Terry. Product managers know that making our customers fall in love with our stores, our staff, and our brand is a critical part of our ability to be successful. The Wegmans Product Management Problem.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2018

Do consumers want to subscribe to cars or own them? Over at General Motors, their product managers have been hard at work trying to come up with ways to change their product development definition and get more people to select Cadillacs when it comes time to buy or lease their next car. The concept is simple.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2017

Pepsi’s product managers screwed up Diet Pepsi, can they fix it? I think that we do need to hand it to the Pepsi product managers – at least on paper they did everything that they really should have done. One year ago, the Pepsi product managers rolled out a new version of their Diet Pepsi product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. In 2010 I worked as a project manager for a web agency. I was responsible for managing software development projects. Management, because most projects were not profitable. Christiaan Verwijs Barry Overeem Do you want to get future articles in your inbox?

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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. This blood testing device was called Edison. The Problem With Edison.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2017

YouTube product managers have some real challenges ahead of them Image Credit: redsoul300. Every product manager dreams of being in charge of a successful product. You can well imagine what a great job it must be to be a product manager who works for YouTube. Challenges That YouTube Is Facing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The product managers at McDonald’s have a problem on their hands. McDonald’s product managers need to take a look at their product manager job description and realize that they have a new job on their hands: they need to figure out how they’re going to go about capturing younger customers.

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