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LEARNING OBJECTIVES (LO)
AFTER READING CHAPTER 9, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

L Recognize the terms that pertain to


O products and services.
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L Identify the ways to classify consumer
O and business products.
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Describe four unique elements of
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services.
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Explain the significance of “newness”
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and “consumer learning” to new
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products and services.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES (LO)
AFTER READING CHAPTER 9, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

L Describe the factors affecting the


O success or failure of a new product or
5 service.

L Explain the purposes of each step of


O the new-product process.
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APPLE’S NEW-PRODUCT
INNOVATION MACHINE

Apple CarPlay
Ad

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
1 A LOOK AT GOODS, SERVICES, AND IDEAS

Products Services

Goods
• Nondurable
Goods
Ideas

• Durable
Goods

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FIGURE 9-1 Services now contribute about
twice the value to the U.S. gross domestic
product than goods do

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FIGURE 9-A The service continuum shows
how offerings can vary in their balance of
products and services

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
2 CLASSIFYING PRODUCTS

Consumer Products

Business Products

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
2 CLASSIFYING PRODUCTS

Consumer Products
• Convenience
Products
• Shopping Products
• Specialty
Products
• Unsought Products

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FIGURE 9-2 How a consumer product is
classified affects which products consumers
buy and the marketing strategies used

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
2 CLASSIFYING PRODUCTS

Business Products
• Derived Demand

• Components

• Support Products
▪ Installations ▪ Supplies

▪ Accessory ▪ Industrial
Equipment Services
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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
2 CLASSIFYING SERVICES

Delivery by People or Equipment

Delivery by Business Firms or


Nonprofit Organizations

Delivery by Government Agencies

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FIGURE 9-3 Services can be classified as
equipment-based or people-based

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
3 THE UNIQUENESS OF SERVICES

Four I’s of Services


• Intangibility • Inseparability

• Inconsistency • Inventory

▪ Idle Production Capacity

Product/Service Offering
• Core • Supplementary
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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
3 THE UNIQUENESS OF SERVICES

Assessing and Improving


Service Quality
• Gap Analysis – compare expectations to
the actual experience
• Monitoring Service Failure
• Use market research to
improve

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
3 THE UNIQUENESS OF SERVICES

Customer Contact Audits

• Service Encounters

• Customer Contact Audit

• A Customer’s Car Rental Activities

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FIGURE 9-B Customer contact audit for a
car rental agency (green boxes = customer
activity; orange boxes = employee activity)

Hertz Ad

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
3 PRODUCT CLASSES, FORMS, ITEMS, LINES, AND MIXES

Product Item

• Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)

Product Line

Product Mix

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WHAT ARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES?
3 PRODUCT CLASSES, FORMS, ITEMS, LINES, AND MIXES

Product Class (Industry


where product belongs)

Product Form (Different


shapes, types)
Crapola Ad

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MARKETING MATTERS
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Feature Bloat: Geek Squad to the Rescue!

Geek Squad
Video

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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHAT IS A NEW PRODUCT?

Newness:

Compared to Existing Products

Playstation Video

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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHAT IS A NEW PRODUCT?

Newness: The Consumer’s Perspective

• Continuous Innovation
• Dynamically Continuous
Innovation
• Discontinuous Innovation

Newness in Legal Terms


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FIGURE 9-4 The degree of “newness” in a
new product affects the amount of learning
effort consumers exert to use the product

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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHAT IS A NEW PRODUCT?

Newness: The Organization’s Perspective

• Product Line Extension

• Jump in
Innovation

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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHAT IS A NEW PRODUCT?

Newness: The Organization’s Perspective

• Brand Extension

• True Innovation

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Product Line Extensions

Example:
Purina Elegant Medleys
What are the potential benefits and
dangers of product line extensions?

Purina Web site

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FIGURE 9-C What it takes to launch one
commercially successful new product

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FIGURE 9-D What separates new-product
winners and losers

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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHY PRODUCTS & SERVICES SUCCEED OR FAIL

Marketing Reasons for New-Product Failures

• Insignificant Points of Difference

• Incomplete Market and Product Protocol


Before Product Development Starts
• Not Satisfying Customer Needs on
Critical Factors

• No Economical Access to Buyers


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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHY PRODUCTS & SERVICES SUCCEED OR FAIL

Marketing Reasons for New-Product Failures

• Bad Timing

• Poor Product Quality

• Poor Execution of the Marketing Mix

• Too Little Market


Attractiveness
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THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL
WHY PRODUCTS & SERVICES SUCCEED OR FAIL

What Were They Thinking? Organizational


Problems in New-Product Failure
• Not Listening to the “Voice” of the Consumer

• Skipping Stages in the New-Product Process


• Marketing a Poorly Conceived Product Too
Quickly
• Encountering “Groupthink” in Meetings

• Not Learning Lessons From Past Failures

• Avoiding the “NIH Problem”


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Fingos & Thirsty Dog/Thirsty Cat
5 Why did these products fail?

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Monster in My Room and Life Saver
5 Why did these products fail?

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USING MARKETING DASHBOARDS
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Which States are Underperforming?
Annual Percent Change in Unit Volume by State

Change in Growth
< 0% 0 to 10% > 10%
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FIGURE 9-5 Seven stages in the
new-product process leading to success

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6 STAGE 1: NEW-PRODUCT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

New-Product Process
• Stage Gate Process

New-Product Strategy Development


• Strategic Role Defined
• SWOT Analysis/Scanning Conducted
• Protocol Defined
• Service Development Difficult
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FIGURE 9-E Strategic roles of most
successful new products

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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 2: IDEA GENERATION

Idea Generation
• Open Innovation

Employee and Co-Worker Suggestions

Customer and Supplier Suggestions


Life is Good
• Crowdsourcing

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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 2: IDEA GENERATION

Research & Development Laboratories

• Industrial Design

IDEO Gourmet
Café Salad Packaging
• Outside Labs

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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 2: IDEA GENERATION

Competitive Products EPS Whole


Tree Havester

Smaller Firms

Universities

Inventors
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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 3: SCREENING AND EVALUATION

Screening and Evaluation

• Internal Approach

▪ Customer Experience Management (CEM)

• External Approach

▪ Concept Tests

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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 4: BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Business Analysis
Prototype
Business Fit

Capacity Management Google Driverless Car

Off-Peak Pricing
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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 5: DEVELOPMENT

Development
• Example: Google’s
Driverless Car
• Service Encounters
and Delivery

• Safety Tests

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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 6: MARKET TESTING

Market Testing
• Test Marketing

• Standard Test Markets

• Controlled Test Markets

• Simulated Test Markets (STMs)

• When Test Markets Don’t Work


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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 7: COMMERCIALIZATION

Commercialization

• Regional Rollouts

Burger King’s French Fries

Risks with Grocery Products


• Slotting Fee
• Failure Fee
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THE NEW-PRODUCT PROCESS
6 STAGE 7: COMMERCIALIZATION

Speed as a Factor in New-Product Success

• Time to Market (TtM)

• Parallel Development

• Fast Prototyping
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VIDEO CASE 9
X-1: BREAKING THE BARRIERS OF SOUND
WITH NEW-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

X-1 Video Case

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VIDEO CASE 9
X-1

1. What are the points of


difference, or unique attributes,
for X-1 products?

2. What are X-1’s primary target


markets?

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VIDEO CASE 9
X-1

3. Describe the new-product


development process used
by X-1. What are the
similarities and differences
to the process described in
Figure 10-3?

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VIDEO CASE 9
X-1

4. Which of the eight reasons for


new-product failure did X-1
avoid to ensure success of
X-1’s products?

5. Identify one new-product idea


you would suggest that X-1
evaluate.

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IN-CLASS ACTIVITY 9-1
CUSTOMER CONTACT AUDIT
FOR A SERVICE

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Customer contact audit for a car rental (green
boxes = customer activity; orange boxes =
employee activity)

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IN-CLASS ACTIVITY 9-2

USING METHOD 6-3-5 TO FIND


NEW-PRODUCT IDEAS
FOR MAGNETIC POETRY
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Magnetic Poetry’s Little Boxes of Words

Example:
Use Method 6-3-5 to find New Product Ideas
For Magnetic Poetry’s
Little Boxes of Words

Magnetic
Poetry

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Product

A product is a good, service,


or idea consisting of a bundle of
tangible and intangible attributes
that satisfies consumers’ needs
and is received in exchange for
money or something else of value.

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Services

Services are the intangible


activities or benefits that an
organization provides to satisfy
consumers’ needs in exchange
money or something else of value.

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Consumer Products

Consumer products are products


purchased by the ultimate
consumer.

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Business Products

Business products are products


organizations buy that assist in
providing other products for
resale. Also called B2B products
or industrial products.

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Four I’s of Services

The four I’s of services consists


of the four unique elements that
distinguish services from goods:
intangibility, inconsistency,
inseparability, and inventory.

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Idle Production Capacity

Idle production capacity occurs


when the service provider is
available but there is no demand
for the service.

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Product Item

A product item is a specific


product that has a unique brand,
size, or price.

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Product Line

A product line is a group of product


or service items that are closely
related because they satisfy a class
of needs, are used together, are sold
to the same customer group, are
distributed through the same outlets,
or fall within a given price range.

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Product Mix

A product mix consists of all of


the product lines offered by an
organization.

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New-Product Process

The new-product process


consists of the seven stages an
organization goes through to
identify business opportunities
and convert them to salable
products or services.

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Customer Experience Management
(CEM)

Customer experience
management (CEM) is the
process of managing the entire
customer experience within the
firm.

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