Can Amazon’s Product Managers Deliver The Goods?

Amazon is preparing to do battle with UPS and FedEx Image Credit: Mike Mozart As just about everyone knows, you can order anything from Amazon. However, where a lot of us get a bit confused is just exactly how what we order actually gets to our doorstep. Yeah, yeah – for many of us Prime members we know that it will arrive in two days...

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Ticketmaster Product Managers Prepare For New Competition

Ticketmaster now has some competition for selling tickets Image Credit: rhoadeecha So if you want to go to a concert, a monster truck show, or a circus, who do you buy your tickets from? If you are like most of us you would go online, go to a website run by Ticketmaster, and purchase your tickets. This is the way that we’ve always done...

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

Is it possible that new sources of data will help product managers in hard times? Image Credit: Wonderlane Let’s face it: pandemics suck. 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. As a product manager, you still have the same goals, it’s just...

Dec 2020

Product Managers Move Grocery Stores Online During A Pandemic

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. However, in the past few years their job has become more and more challenging. The arrival of online shopping was in the process of fundamentally changing...

Dec 2020

McDonald’s Product Managers Prepare To Introduce Meatless Burgers

Soon customers will be able to get a burger at McDonalds that has no meat Image Credit: Steve Jurvetson When we think about burgers, one of the things that comes into just about everyone’s mind is the golden arches of McDonalds. We think about McDonalds as the place that we can always go to get a burger. However, times are changing and...

Nov 2020

A Breakfast Bet That Went Bad For Product Managers

Product Managers bet big on breakfast and Covid-19 has changed everything Image Credit: sstrieu I don’t know about you, but I sure do like betting on a sure thing. You know what I mean, it’s when you place a bet that you know is going to end up being a winner. The product managers at fast food restaurants thought that they had a sure...

Nov 2020

Product Managers Deal With New Wrinkles In Marketing Skin Care Products

Botox product managers now have to face new rivals Image Credit: Leslie Nguyen Good news for product managers – nobody likes to get old! In fact, nobody really likes to look like they are getting 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...

Nov 2020

Product Managers Find A Way To Turn A Profit

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. In fact, your application is so successful that your company got bought by another much larger online company for a lot of money...

Nov 2020

What Is Chick-fill-A’s Product Managers Secret To Success?

Chick-Fill-A product managers are riding the wave of breaded chicken demand Image Credit: ccPixs.com When lunch or dinner rolls around and you are hungry, what do you want to eat? If you are like most of us, you start looking for a fast food restaurant where you can go get a good meal and get in and get out. A number of possibilities come...

Oct 2020

Forget Social Media – Product Managers Are Focusing On Email Again

Product managers who want an audience, are going with an old standby Image Credit: Photo by Anete Lūsiņa on Unsplash Welcome to the era of Google and Facebook. Product managers have had to learn to live in a world that is dominated by these firms. They control what the users of their applications see. Their algorithms determine what their...

Oct 2020