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Discussion Questions
1. What challenges does a company face in developing
new products and services?
2. What organizational structures and processes do
managers use to oversee new-product development?
3. What are the main stages in developing new products
and services?
4. What is the best way to manage the new-product
development process?
5. What factors affect the rate of diffusion and consumer
adoption of newly launched products and services?
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New Product Options
Make or Buy
Improved
Formula
Customer-driven Engineering
$13,984,000
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Organizing New Product Development
Cross-functional Teams
“Skunkworks”
Stage-gate Systems
Crowd Sourcing
Morphological
Analysis
Lateral Marketing
Attribute Listing
Probability of Probability of
Overall Probability
commercialization economic
probability of technical
given technical success given
of success completion
completion commercialization
Concept 2
Concept 1 Concept 3
Product Dimensions
1. Communicability and Believability
2. Need level
3. Gap level
4. Perceived value
5. Purchase intention
6. User targets, purchase occasions,
frequency
Design Elements
• Three package designs (A, B, C)
• Three brand names (K2R, Glory, Bissell)
• Three Prices ($1.19, $1.39, $1.59)
• A possible Good Housekeeping seal (yes, no)
• A possible money-back guarantee (yes, no)
Marketing-mix strategy
Marketing Mix
Market Testing
Commercialization
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Product Development
Physical Prototype
Alpha Testing
(Internal)
Beta Testing
(Customers)
Customer Tests
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Market Testing
Sales-Wave
Research
Controlled
Test Marketing
Test Markets
Simulated
Test Marketing
Where?
How?
To Whom?
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The Consumer-Adoption Process
Stages in the Adoption Process
Influencing Factors
• Buyer Readiness
• Personal Influence
• Innovation Characteristics
• Organizations Readiness
Early Majority
Laggards
Innovators
Late Majority
Early Adopters
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Continuum of Evaluation for Products
Divisibility
Compatibility
Relative Advantage
Complexity Communicability
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