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Chapter 9

Product
Management and
New-Product
Development

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At the end of this presentation,
you should be able to:
1. understand how product life cycles affect strategy
planning.
2. describe what is involved in designing new products
and what “new products” really are.
3. understand the new-product development process.
4. appreciate the team effort that goes into new-product
development.
5. understand the need for product or brand managers.
6. understand how total quality management can
improve goods and services.
7. understand important new terms.
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The Role of Product Management and New-
Product Development in Marketing Strategy
(Exhibit 9-1)

Chapter 8:
Chapter 9: Product
Elements of
Management and
Product Planning
New-Product
for Goods and
Development
Services

The Product Life Cycle New-Product Managing Products


• Stages Development • Product managers
• Strategy planning for • 5-step process • Managing product
stages • Success factors quality

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Typical Life Cycle of a New Product
Concept (Exhibit 9-2)

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Market Introduction—
Investing in the Future

Informative
Low sales
promotion

Invest for
future
profits
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Market Growth Stage—
Profits Go Up and Down
Innovation Attracts
Competition

Monopolistic
Competition Develops

Profits Peak and Then


Decline

Don’t Ignore Long-Term Competitive Trends!


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Market Maturity Stage—
Sales Level Off, Profits Decline
Persuasive, More Costly
Promotion

Brands Are More Similar

Greater Price
Competition/Price
Sensitivity

Maturity May Last a Long


Time
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Sales Decline—
A Time of Replacement

Price
New products competition
replace the old from dying
products

Conservative
buyers switch late
to new products

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Checking Your Knowledge

While some of its competitors had stopped


producing movies in VHS cassette format, Disney
announced that it would still produce produce its
movies in VHS format. These companies'
decisions suggest that VHS movies are probably in
the _______ stage of the product life cycle.
A. market introduction
B. market growth
C. sales decline
D. market maturity

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Product Life Cycles Don’t Relate to
Individual Products
Individual Market
Brands Definitions
• May not follow the • Should be
classic pattern carefully
• May be introduced developed
in market growth AND • Different markets,
or maturity different stages
• Not all brands are • Contribute to the
equally strong length of the cycle

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Product Life Cycles Vary in Length

Comparative Easy to Use


Advantage

Products
that move
quickly through
early life
cycle stages Easy to
Compatibility
Communicate

Trialability

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Other Issues in Product
Life Cycle Length
Product Life Cycles Are
Getting Shorter

Pioneer or Follower? Which


Strategy Works Best?

Fashions and Fads

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Changes in Marketing Mix Across the
Product Life Cycle (Exhibit 9-3)
Market
Market Growth
Introduction
Variety, build brand
Product One or few
familiarity

Place Build channels, maybe selective distribution

Promotion Pioneering, informing Inform & persuade

Skimming or Meet competition or


Price penetration price dealing

Monopoly or Monopolistic
Competitive
monopolistic competition or
Situation competition oligopoly
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Changes in Marketing Mix Across the
Product Life Cycle (Exhibit 9-3)
Market Maturity Sales Decline

Product Battle of the brands Some drop out

Place Move toward more intensive distribution

Build selective demand


Promotion Persuading and then reminding

Price Meeting competition or price cuts and deals

Competitive Monopolistic competition or oligopoly –


Situation heading toward pure competition
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Managing Mature Products

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Phasing Out Dying Products

Phase-out May
Be Necessary

Don’t Pull the


Plug So Quickly
Product Line
Profitability Customer
Support Sales Decline
Can Be
Profitable

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New Product Planning

What Is a New Product?

FTC Rule: 6 Months

Ethical Dilemmas Exist

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#M4BW: Innovation Can Make
World A Better Place

New products
that innovate

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New-Product Development Process
(Exhibit 9-4)
1. Idea
generation

2. Screening

3. Idea
evaluation

4.Development

5.
Commercial-
ization

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Step 1: Idea Generation

1. Idea
generation

2. Screening

3. Idea
evaluation

4.Development

5.
Commercial-
ization

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Step 2: Screening

1. Idea
generation

2.
2. Screening
Screening

• Strengths and 3. Idea


weaknesses evaluation
• Fit with objectives
• Market trends 4.Development
• Rough ROI estimate
5.
Commercial-
ization

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Step 3: Idea Evaluation

1. Idea
generation

2. Screening

3. Idea
evaluation

4.Development

5.
Commercial-
ization

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Step 4: Development

1. Idea
generation

2. Screening

3. Idea
evaluation

4.Development

5.
Commercial-
ization

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Step 5: Commercialization

1. Idea
generation

2. Screening

3. Idea
evaluation

4.Development

5.
Commercial-
ization

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Checking Your Knowledge

Top management of a large company recently approached the


dean of a major business school about starting a specialized
MBA program for the company’s employees. After further
discussions, the dean decided that the program did not fit well
with the objectives and resources of the school, so the program
was put on the “back burner” until conditions changed. The
proposed MBA program was at what stage of the new-product
development process when it was shelved?
A. Idea generation
B. Screening
C. Idea evaluation
D. Development
E. Commercialization

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New Product Development: A Total
Company Effort (Exhibit 9-6)
Complete Effective
marketing transition to
plan regular operations

Organized new-
product A basis for
New-product
development superior
success
process customer value

Effective
design

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New Product Development: A Total
Company Effort (Exhibit 9-6)
Clear
Top Cross-
understanding
management functional
of customer
support team
needs

Culture of Organized new-product


innovation development process

Cost
Product Timely
management
champion development
(costs add
with authority cycle value)

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Checking Your Knowledge

Which statement(s) about new-product


development is/are true?
A. The process should be informal to encourage
innovation.
B. The greatest number of product ideas is in the idea
evaluation stage.
C. The best criteria for evaluating new product ideas in
the early stages is return on investment (ROI).
D. The process should have top management support.
E. All the above statements are true.
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Need for Product Managers

Product/Brand
Managers

Common in Large
Companies

Some Are “Product


Champions”

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Managing Product Quality

TQM

Meets customer
requirements

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Data and Artificial Intelligence
Aid Quality Efforts

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Building Quality into Services

Server Is Linked
to the Service

Training Is Crucial

Empowerment Works

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Other Issues in Quality
Implementation Efforts
Empower People To
Serve

Specify Jobs and


Measure Performance

Get a Return on Quality

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Key Terms

1. product life cycle 12. Federal Trade Commission


2. market introduction (FTC)
3. market growth 13. patent

4. market maturity 14. Consumer Product Safety Act

5. sales decline 15. product liability

6. fashion 16. concept testing

7. fad 17. prototype


18. product managers
8. new product
19. brand managers
9. continuous innovations
20. total quality management (TQM)
10. dynamically continuous
innovations 21. continuous improvement
22. empowerment
11. discontinuous innovations
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