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The Accidental Product Manager
by Jim Anderson
Managing a product is not just a business, it’s a science. Nobody knows more about the science of product management than Dr. Jim Anderson.As Dr. Anderson says “I don’t embrace excuses from product managers about why their products are not successful, I embrace solutions.”Over the last 25 years, Dr. Anderson has transformed failing products worldwide. Dr. Anderson will turn these money pits into money makers. Welcome to the premier blog for learning how to develop, launch, and manage wildly successful products.For a product to be successful, it takes an entire company working together.
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Product Managers Go Searching For More Kitchen Space To Complete Orders
Just in case you didn’t know it, ordering food to be delivered to your home has exploded in the past few years. More and more customers are going online and placing orders for food that they expect to show up at their home quickly. For the product managers who are working at the restaurants that...
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Product Managers Need To Know What It Means When Partners Go Bankrupt
In order to be a successful product manager, often we will have to use our product development definition to find partners for our company to work with. Once we’ve entered into an agreement with them, in order for our product to be a success, both partners have to do their part. This is all fine...
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How Should Starbucks Product Managers Sell Coffee In China?
When you want to get a cup of coffee, where do you go? In the U.S., most of us generally head to a Starbucks. It turns out that if we were in China, this is also something that we can do – Starbucks has expanded until they are just about everywhere in China. However, as Starbucks has become more...
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Chinese App Product Managers Race To Capture Indian Users
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. Social media is all about growth. There are a number of new social media apps that are being…
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Walmart Product Managers Struggle To Provide A Grocery-Delivery Service
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. I mean your company has deep pockets and can probably spend a lot of money to do whatever everyone else in this new market is...
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Product Managers Prepare To Go To Battle Over Fried Chicken
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. However, once upon a time it might have been that simple; however, these days it has become much more complicated. If you can ignore for a moment the…
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Product Managers Start To Go Directly To Their Customers
Advertising product managers are always looking for the next “big thing”. The advertising market has its ups and downs as customer’s needs, wants, and moods change seemingly overnight. These product managers have the responsibility to keep their eyes open all the time searching for the new ways...
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Facebook Product Managers Go Looking For More News
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. One great way to make this happen is to provide Facebook visitors with access to current news....
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Cigarette Product Managers Make A Bet On The Future
Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. You are responsible for a product that is both addictive and reviled. You’ve been doing quite well for yourself for a very long time; however, now things are starting to change. Young people seem to getting the message and are less likely to...
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What To Do About Baby: Product Managers Rethink Baby Products
Anyone who has a baby can tell you that they spend a lot of time giving their baby baths. When they do this, they require special products – things like baby shampoo. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that the market for baby products is huge. One of the biggest players in this market is a company...
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Airbus Product Managers Focus On New Smaller Airplanes
So what’s a product manager supposed to do when your biggest product has been discontinued? This is the challenge that was facing the Airbus product managers. The company had been building the massive A380 airplane that they had created in order to compete with Boeing’s 747 airplane. However, the...
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Product Managers Give Clear Drinks A Try
Think about your favorite non-water drink right now. What color is it? When you pour it into a glass, it looks the way that it should – you can recognize it. In fact, when you drink it, it probably tastes the way that it looks. What if all of this could be changed. What if your favorite drink...
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Can Amazon’s Product Managers Make Videogames Successful?
It almost goes without saying that we all know about Amazon – the book seller who has turned into the seller of just about everything. What you may not know about Amazon is that they decided a while back to that they were going to enter into the lucrative video gaming market. With the power of...
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Product Managers Prepare For The Next Step In Making Payments
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...
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Product Managers Deal With The Challenges Of Delivered Meals
What a wonderful time we are living in! With the arrival of the internet, all of sudden there is no longer a reason for any of us to have to go out to a restaurant any more. Instead, all we have to do is to bring up one of those online ordering applications, select what we want, and then greet…
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In Order To Succeed, Should Product Managers Become Smaller?
If you were a product manager at Walmart’s Sam’s Club, there is one thing that would keep you up at night: Costco. You’d know that your product development definition was broken because the customers that you wanted to come into your Sam’s Club stores all too often were heading over to shop at...
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Game Product Managers Get Ready For Mobile Phones
At the end of a long day, many people like to go home and spend the evening losing themselves in playing video games on their home entertainment systems. Games for these systems have grown into a big business. In the past, when these people were away from home, they couldn’t play their games....
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Product Managers Struggle To Come Up With A Better Drink
You would think that being a product manager for a hot new start-up beverage would be a great job, right? Somewhat surprisingly, you’d be wrong. It turns out that it’s fairly easy to come up with the idea for a new beverage – it it has health benefits then it is ever easier, but it is then hard…
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Amazon Product Managers Struggle To Move Upscale
There is no question that Amazon is a successful company. If you were a product manager who worked at Amazon you would be under a great deal of pressure to find ways for the company to make more money. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products. It...
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Can Product Managers Use Social Media To Market Forbidden Products?
When you think about all of the products that product managers are responsible for, there are a number of them that come to mind as being “difficult” products to successfully manage. For one reason or another, these products are difficult to talk about and therefore are difficult to market. In…
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How Can Product Managers Deal With Faulty Components?
So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. You believe that you are using your product development definition to provide your customers with a high quality product that can meet their needs better than any other product that is currently on the market. This is all fine and...
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Peloton Product Managers Try To Figure Out What They Did Wrong
At one point in time, being a Peloton product manager must have felt like having the best job in the world. It seemed like everyone had fallen in love with the pricy stationary bike and video subscription service. The product was literally flying off the shelves. However, things changed. Oh yeah,...
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Small Cosmetic Brand Product Managers Are Changing The Business
You would think that a business as well established as the cosmetic business would not see a lot of disruption. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? Well, it turns out that in the cosmetics business product managers at some of the...
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A Clever Product Manager Saves A Bookstore In The Era Of Amazon
If there is one job that most of us would agree that we would not like to have these days, it’s any job in which we would be going up against Amazon. They have spread into so many different areas that it is becoming harder and harder to avoid competing with them. However, there is one product...
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Product Managers Know Kids Want Some Buzz With Their Soda
Product managers who are responsible for selling alcohol are in a bit of a bind these days. For some reason, perhaps because of everyone’s health kick, sales of alcohol have been declining over the past few years. Today’s millennials are just not buying as much beer, wine, and hard liquor as…
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Video Game Product Managers Struggle With Pricing
Can anyone besides me remember back in the day when you wanted to play a video game and you’d stuff your pockets with quarters and head on down to the video parlor? Those days are now long gone and you can play great games almost anywhere without spending a penny. However, although you might not...
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Gucci Tries To Bounce Back From A Product Mistake
Just in case you didn’t know it, Gucci is a one of the largest and most successful fashion brands out there. Everyone wants to both own and be seen wearing Gucci apparel. In the past few years, Gucci has had a fantastic run and has become one of the hottest brands in fashion. However, their…
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Product Managers Practice Magic To Fill Shelves
Every product manager wants their customers to be able to buy their product when they decide to make a purchase. The worst thing in the world that could happen is that your customer is ready to buy and you have nothing to offer to them. Grocery store product managers are facing a situation like...
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Food Delivery Product Managers Need Steady Customers
I can only speak for myself, but it seems as though anytime I walk into a store that sells food, there is some sort of sticker on the door that proclaims that if I’d prefer to have my food brought to me, there is a service that will do it. What a fantastic age we now live in! The product managers...
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Product Managers Are Changing Retail Stores Into Warehouses
So here’s a quiz for you: if you were going to buy a TV, how would you go about doing it? If you are like most of us, you’d go look online, find the model that you wanted, and then order it online. The idea of going to a store and picking one out is something that a lot of us no longer consider....
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How Will Product Managers Make Driverless Grocery Delivery A Success?
Let’s face it, today when you see a car on the road you expect to see a person sitting behind the wheel. However, if some very smart product managers have their way, in the future you might be seeing driverless cars whizzing around. This is all brand new stuff, but there have been a number of…
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When Product Managers Do Bad Things
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. However, I really can’t say that. What this means is that in the world of product managers, there are the good ones and the not so good ones. I like to spend my time talking...
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Mall Product Managers Discover The Value Of Gyms
If you’d like to sign up for a challenging product manager job, then perhaps you’d like to look into what it would take to become the product manager for a mall. Back in the day, malls where where everyone in town would go to do their shopping. They had movie theaters, food courts, and, of…
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Busy Food Delivery Product Managers Search For Profits
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. However, in the...
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How Can Product Managers Capture Frugal Customers?
The arrival of the Covid-19 virus has upended the lives of most of our customers. Many people have lost their jobs and just about everyone has been forced to stay home. The result of all of this is that our customers are starting to feel “cash poor” – they are looking for ways to save money on...
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Product Managers Learn That It’s All About The Packaging
So product manager, what does your product look like? No, I mean when your customer first has a chance to get their hands on their version of your product, what does it look like? Does it show up in a nondescript cardboard box? Is it in an unremarkable container? You do realize how very important...
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Product Managers Discover How To Make More Money From Food
Product managers for food products are facing a couple of different challenges right now. The first is that the cost of making food is currently rising. This means that their products are becoming more expensive even without them doing anything. The other problem that they are facing is that they...
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Movie Theaters Come Up With Ways To Get You To See A Movie
Let’s face it, being a product manager for a movie theater chain was not an easy job before the Covid-19 virus showed up. Netflix and other streaming services were cutting into people’s desire to go out and purchase movie tickets. Now that the virus has arrived, movie theaters have been closed…
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Restaurant Product Managers Deal With The Challenge Of Ordering Apps
Once upon a time it used to be easy to be a restaurant product manager. Your #1 job was to find ways to get more people to come to your restaurant to eat. You could offer discounts, have special events, and even add unique things to your menu. However, then times changed. That internet thing...
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Product Managers Prepare To Turn Restaurants On Their Head
Restaurant product managers have a difficult job these days. It has always been a challenge to get people to come to your restaurant and spend money. However, with the arrival of food delivery services that will now take a restaurant’s food to anyone’s home, things have become even more…
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Product Managers Want To Know How To Make A Sandwich Special
Who doesn’t love a good sandwich? When lunch time rolls around (or perhaps dinner), there is something about grabbing a meal that you can hold in your hand that can be oh so satisfying. When it comes time for us to have a sandwich there are a lot of different options for us: we can make our own…
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Grocery Product Managers Start To Think Small
Grocery product managers are starting to face a real problem. More and more of their business is starting to be driven by customers going online and ordering food and then expecting it to show up at their door. What this means for these product managers is that the old way of doing business,...
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Product Managers Deal With The Problem Of Too Much Sand
Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. Everyday things seem to be rushing forward faster and faster, it’s all that we can do to keep up. This is exactly how life must be for product managers who are involved in the fracking industry. Just in...
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Product Managers Discover The Power Of Shelves
Product managers are starting to discover that something that we may have stopped thinking about in this digital age is still very, very important. Even as more and more of our customers are buying things online, it turns out that they still go out and go shopping. When they do this, they want to...
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Freezer Product Managers Become Popular Because Of Covid-19 Vaccines
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...
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What It Takes To Be A Pop-Up Product Manager
As product managers we are always being told that we need to better understand our customers. We believe that if we were to truly understand them, then we would know how to offer them the products that they want, when they want them, and where they want them. In the world of retail products this…
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Drugstore Product Managers Try To Solve The Last Mile Problem
One of the things that every product manager would like to have would be a guaranteed customer base. We’d all love to know that there was a group of customers out there that really needed our products and would probably always be buying from us. It turns out that there are a few markets that are...
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Product Managers Work To Get Mining Vehicles To Go Electric
How would you feel about taking on a challenge? Yes you say? Well good – I’ve got one for you. A very big one. The companies that dig minerals out of the earth have a real problem on their hands. They use a lot of different vehicles to accomplish their work and currently all of these vehicles run...
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Product Managers Work To Get Mining Vehicles To Go Electric
How would you feel about taking on a challenge? Yes you say? Well good – I’ve got one for you. A very big one. The companies that dig minerals out of the earth have a real problem on their hands. They use a lot of different vehicles to accomplish their work and currently all of these vehicles run...
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Can Starbucks Grow Bigger By Getting Smaller?
Oh man! How great would it be to be a product manager at Starbucks? I mean, they are the largest coffee chain going. It sure seems like there are new Starbucks stores popping up all over the place. In fact, sometimes when you are going down the road there will be a Starbucks on one side of the…
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Managing a product is not just a business, it’s a science. Nobody knows more about the science of product management than Dr. Jim Anderson.As Dr. Anderson says “I don’t embrace excuses from product managers about why their products are not successful, I embrace solutions.”Over the last 25 years, Dr. Anderson has transformed failing products worldwide. Dr. Anderson will turn these money pits into money makers. Welcome to the premier blog for learning how to develop, launch, and manage wildly successful products.For a product to be successful, it takes an entire company working together.
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