Video: Product Manager Tips – How To Use Subliminal Advertising
Dr. Jim Anderson looks into the power of subliminal advertising. What he wants to know is can this powerful technique be used when selling products to businesses…
Fire Sale – What Happened To Cisco's Flip Camera?
Dang it! This was supposed to be a story about a product success, not a product failure. Pure Digital created the low-end highly portable video camera market a few years back and then got bought out for a half a billion U.S. dollars by the networking giant Cisco. Cisco is […]
Video: How Product Managers Can Get Better At Creating Powerpoint Slides
Dr. Jim Anderson shows how product managers can create PowerPoint slides that look good and clearly communicate product information.
Breakthrough In Solving The Problem Of How To Evaluate A Product Manager
Oh do I have a tasty dilemma for you this time around! I’ve been working with one of my clients who is setting up a brand new product management department. He’s faced with a challenge that you’d think would be more common than it appears to be: just how should […]
Video: Is Being A Product Manager At Coke The Real Thing?
Dr. Jim Anderson reveals how product managers at Coke are keeping track of their over 450 different brands of products.
5 Reasons Fake Products Are A Real Product Manager Problem
When a product manger’s birthday rolls around and before he / she gets a chance to blow out the candles on their birthday cake, it is customary that they make a wish. Guess what just about all product mangers wish for every year? If you guessed “for my product to […]
Free Product Managment Presentations Now Available!
Presentations that Dr. Jim Anderson deliver at second annual ProductCamp NYC workshop that was held in New York City on November 6th, 2010, are now available online.
4 Key Success Factors For Being A Service Product Manger
It’s hard enough to be a product manager for a “real” product, just imagine how hard this job gets when your company decides to switch over and start to offer service products. You’d think that a flexible product manager could just quickly adjust and that there would be no real […]
How Product Managers Can Get Better At Creating Powerpoint Slides
Yeah, yeah I know that everyone says that they hate Powerpoint – “death by Powerpoint” and all of that. However, the reality of modern Product Manger life is that we end up using Powerpoint to communicate a lot of information about our products and the current status of our projects. […]
#1 Skill That A Product Manager Needs To Have
Yes, I will tell you what this skill is; however, do you think that you can guess it before I do? I’m sure that you can come up with the standard list of leadership skills that every product manager has (or at least should have): able to deal with pressure, […]