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Developing and Managing
Products
Categories of
New Products
New-to-the-World
New Product Lines
Product Line Additions
Improvements or Revisions
Repositioned Products
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Lower-Priced Products
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The New-Product Development
Process
New Product Success Factors
Long-term commitment
Company-specific approach
Capitalize on experience
LO2
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Establish an environment
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Exhibit 11.1
New-Product
Development
Process
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New-Product Strategy
New-Product Strategy is…
a plan that links the new-product
development process with the
objectives of the marketing
department, the business unit, and
the corporation.
LO2
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Idea Generation
Customers
Employees
Distributors
Vendors
Sources of
New-Product
Ideas
Competitors
R&D
Consultants
LO2
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Approaches for New Product
Development
Brainstorming
The process of getting a group to think of
umlimited ways to vary a product or solve a
problem.
Focus Group
The objective of focus group interviews is to
stimulate insightful comments through group
interaction.
LO2
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Idea Screening
Screening is…
the first filter in the product development
process, which eliminates ideas that are
inconsistent with the organization’s
new-product strategy or are
inappropriate for some other reason.
A Concept Test is…
LO2
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a test to evaluate a new-product idea,
usually before any prototype has been
created. Often successful for line
extensions.
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Business Analysis
Demand
Considerations
in
Business
Analysis Stage
Cost
Sales
Profitability
LO2
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Development
 Creation of prototype
 Sketch marketing strategy
 Packaging, branding, labeling
 Promotion, price, and distribution
strategy
 Manufacturing feasibility
LO2
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Simultaneous Product
Development
A new team-oriented approach to newproduct development where all relevant
functional areas and outside suppliers
participate in the development process.
LO2
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Test Marketing
Test
Marketing
The limited introduction
of a product and a
marketing program to
determine the reactions
of potential customers
in a market situation.
LO2
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Costs of Test Marketing
• Often take 1 year or more
• Can cost over $1 million
• Exposes new product to
competitors
• Competitors can “jam” testing
programs with their own
promotions
LO2
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Alternatives to
Test Marketing
 Single-source research using
supermarket scanner data
 Simulated (laboratory) market testing
 Online test marketing
LO2
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Commercialization
Ordering Materials
Production
Inventory Buildup
Distribution Shipments
Sales Force Training
Trade Announcements
LO2
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Customer Advertising
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New-Product
Success Factors
Listening to customers
Strong leadership
Producing the best
product
Commitment to newproduct development
Vision of future market
Project-based team
approach
Getting every aspect right
LO2
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Beyond the Book
Why New Products Fail
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No discernible benefits
Poor match between features and customer
desires
Overestimation of market size
Incorrect positioning
Price too high or too low
Inadequate distribution
Poor promotion
Inferior product
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Diffusion
Diffusion
The process by which the
adoption of an innovation
spreads.
LO4
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Categories of Adopters
Innovators
Early Adopters
Early Majority
Late Majority
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Laggards
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Product Characteristics and
the Rate of Adoption
Complexity
Compatibility
Relative Advantage
Observability
Trialability
LO4
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Marketing Implications of the
Adoption Process
Word of Mouth
Communication
Aids the
Diffusion Process
Direct from
Marketer
LO4
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Product Life Cycle
Product
Life Cycle (PLC)
A concept that provides a way
to trace the stages of a
product’s acceptance, from its
introduction (birth) to its
decline (death).
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Exhibit 11.2
Four Stages of the
Product Life Cycle
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Introductory Stage
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High failure rates
Little competition
Frequent product modification
Limited distribution
High marketing and production costs
Negative profits with slow sales increases
Promotion focuses on awareness and
information
 Communication challenge is to stimulate
primary demand
LO5
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Growth Stage
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Increasing rate of sales
Entrance of competitors
Market consolidation
Initial healthy profits
Aggressive advertising of the
differences between brands
 Wider distribution
LO5
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Maturity Stage
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Sales increase at a decreasing rate
Saturated markets
Annual models appear
Lengthened product lines
Service and repair assume important roles
Heavy promotions to consumers and dealers
Marginal competitors drop out
Niche marketers emerge
LO5
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Decline Stage
 Long-run drop in sales
 Large inventories of
unsold items
 Elimination of all nonessential
marketing expenses
 “Organized abandonment”
LO5
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Exhibit 11.4
Relationships between the Diffusion Process
and the Product Life Cycle
Product
life cycle
curve
Diffusion
curve
LO5
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