The Accidental Product Manager
Business & Economics Podcasts
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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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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Episodes
Product Managers Go Searching For More Kitchen Space To Complete Orders
8/1/2022
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...
Duration:00:03:02
Product Managers Need To Know What It Means When Partners Go Bankrupt
7/25/2022
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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Duration:00:08:23
How Should Starbucks Product Managers Sell Coffee In China?
7/18/2022
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...
Duration:00:08:36
Chinese App Product Managers Race To Capture Indian Users
7/11/2022
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...
Duration:00:04:23
Walmart Product Managers Struggle To Provide A Grocery-Delivery Service
6/27/2022
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...
Duration:00:09:34
Product Managers Prepare To Go To Battle Over Fried Chicken
6/20/2022
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...
Duration:00:08:07
Product Managers Start To Go Directly To Their Customers
6/13/2022
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 that they can expand their product development definition and help the firms that manufacture goods get their message in front of their next customer.
Right now what these product managers are doing...
Duration:00:08:34
Facebook Product Managers Go Looking For More News
6/6/2022
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. This is easy to do on the national and international scale – there are a lot of sources of that news.
However, what the product managers are discovering is that getting local news can be a really...
Duration:00:09:13
Cigarette Product Managers Make A Bet On The Future
5/23/2022
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 start to use your products. At the same time, a new type of smoking product, vaping, has shown up and seems to be doing very well.
What is a product manager to do?
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Duration:00:12:08
What To Do About Baby: Product Managers Rethink Baby Products
5/16/2022
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 that we have all probably heard of: Johnson & Johnson (J&J). They have been around for a very long time and providing baby products is something that they are well known for. However, lately their...
Duration:00:08:31
Airbus Product Managers Focus On New Smaller Airplanes
5/9/2022
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 market for that type of aircraft dried up and went away. When this happened Airbus was left with an airplane, but no market for it. This caused the Airbus product managers to have to change their...
Duration:00:10:00
Product Managers Give Clear Drinks A Try
5/2/2022
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 suddenly became clear? No, the taste would not be changed at all, it would just all of sudden look like water. Would you still want it?
Some product managers are betting that you would say yes.
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Duration:00:09:22
Can Amazon’s Product Managers Make Videogames Successful?
4/25/2022
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 Amazon behind you, you’d think that there was no way that they could ever not be successful. However, so far things have not gone the way that the Amazon product managers had wanted it to go.
What...
Duration:00:09:35
Product Managers Prepare For The Next Step In Making Payments
4/18/2022
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 and the like. Over in China product managers are once again moving forward in the area of payments and they are making changes to their product development definition.
Chinese product managers are...
Duration:00:08:58
Product Managers Deal With The Challenges Of Delivered Meals
4/4/2022
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 the driver when they show up at our front door. What could be better?
Unfortunately, what product managers are starting to discover is that the brave new world of unlimited food delivery comes with...
Duration:00:07:43
In Order To Succeed, Should Product Managers Become Smaller?
3/28/2022
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 Costco. The people that you needed to be shopping in your store were well-to-do shoppers who would be willing to spend a lot at your store. However, the people that you were getting were the Walmart...
Duration:00:10:48
Game Product Managers Get Ready For Mobile Phones
3/22/2022
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. However, that is now starting to change. Videogame product managers are starting extend their product development definition and bring more of their complex, graphics-intense hits for consoles and...
Duration:00:07:37
Product Managers Struggle To Come Up With A Better Drink
3/14/2022
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 to be a product manager that is able to figure out the product development definition that will get your new drink beverage to catch on. This market is littered with the remains of companies that...
Duration:00:08:33
Amazon Product Managers Struggle To Move Upscale
3/7/2022
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 turns out that this is harder than it may have originally looked to them…
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Duration:00:10:09
Can Product Managers Use Social Media To Market Forbidden Products?
2/28/2022
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 this category go condoms, guns, doughnuts, and, of course, cigarettes. However, there is a new product on the market that probably belongs in this category but it’s so new that nobody is really sure...
Duration:00:10:12