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The Accidental Product Manager Jim Anderson
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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. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-anderson3/support
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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 are providing all of this food, times have been tough. As the number of orders has been increasing, the restaurant’s ability to create and ship that much food has been strained. What the product managers need is more kitchen space.
They are starting to think that they may have found a new place to build more of what they need.
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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 and good until the day that you discover that your partner has gone bankrupt. If that happens, what does it mean for your partnership?
What does it mean for your partner?
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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 and more successful, other firms have seen this and have decided that they want to start to offer coffee in China. The Starbucks product managers are now starting to face more competition for business in China than they have ever experienced before.
What should they do with their product development definition now?
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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 created by Chinese companies (who else would know about what appeals to millions of people?) and they think that they may have found an untapped market.
The product managers for these Chinese companies are going after users in India where there are millions of people just waiting to discover the next big social media app.
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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 doing. The result isn’t if you are going to be successful, it’s really more a question of just how successful you are going to be.
As Walmart has gotten into the home grocery delivery business, their product managers have discovered that even being big may not be enough to ensure that they will be a success.
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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 fact that you are facing a great deal of competition, it now turns out that your customer’s tastes are changing.
Burger product managers have a challenge on their hands and they are going to have to get creative and change their product development definition.
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Customer Reviews
Skip this.
20% of an episode is a sponsored ad, 40% is a semi-informational superficial case study, and the remaining 40% is the host restating the informative stuff using different sentence structures. With a lot of mispronunciations.
Skip listening to this podcast. The juice is not worth the squeeze. Far better produced and more educational Product Management podcasts are out there to listen to.
Content is great! Opening...is not
I absolutely love the content of all these podcasts. I just wish 10% of the actual podcast - and only at the beginning - was devoted to the ad. Mix it in or save it for the end.