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Product Strategy

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Chitkara Business School MBA Course I 2nd year

October/November 2021
New Products and Brand Extensions
Ansoff’s Growth Matrix

Existing Products New Products

Product
Existing Markets Market Penetration
Development
Strategy
Strategy

Market Diversification
New Markets Development Strategy
Strategy

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Market Penetration - Objectives

Grow the pie Play for podium

Increased consumption
Overtake competition
from existing customers 3
Risk Low Medium High
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Product Development - Objectives

Growth via new products Remain competitive

Provide variety to Solve a pressing


consumers problem
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Risk Low Medium High
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Market Development - Objectives

New geographies New product benefit

New distribution Change in pricing


channels
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Risk Low Medium High
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Diversification - Objectives

New geographies

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Risk Low Medium High
Key questions to ask before developing a new product

• Who is the target of your new product*?


• What specific need of these target customers will your new product fulfill?
• Which specific benefits should the new product have?
• How will you market and sell the new product?
• How will you manage cost such that the new product is profitable without
disturbing the sales of your existing products in your product mix?
• When is the best time to launch?
• How to respond to similar products being launched by competition?
• How to organize a pipeline of new products?

*New Product may also mean an iteration of an existing product 7


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