their quest to acquire and develop new products‚ will the use of the PTSTP method help Pepsi develop new products in order to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage?A product is defined in three levels; core‚ actual‚ and augmented. The core of the product is the benefit it offers the consumer. For the example of colas‚ it could be refreshment‚ energy (sugar and caffeine)‚ alertness‚ or just pleasure. The soda itself is the actual product. The augmented product for a cola could be the recognition
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Linking New Product Development to Strategy By Gary Getz and Pedro do Carmo Costa Many companies implement Stage-Gate or other forms of new product development processes that promise to accelerate growth while managing risk. Few‚ however‚ are satisfied with the output of their efforts. One potential reason for their dissatisfaction is the disconnection between their organization’s new product development (NPD) and strategy development processes. Without this connection‚ product development pipelines
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same technology customer market with their products such as iOS‚ Windows Phone 7 and many more. To make sure Google’s business is in the market‚ Google needs to keep create and innovate their products so that customers are using Google products and keep their business in the market. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Figure 1: Google Logo (Google‚ 2012) Google is a world known company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997 based on the new name of their search engine that was BackRub
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Strategy of Nokia for New Product Development Introduction Founded as a paper mill company in Finland back in 1865‚ Nokia has evolved into a diversified industrial company by merging with Finnish Rubber Works (establish in 1898) and Finnish Cable Works (establish in 1912) in 1967. Since then‚ the company has been known as Nokia Corporation and become the world largest mobile phone company. Eastern and western Europe are the main market until the liberalization of trade with former Soviet bloc
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Contents Introduction 2 Business Strategy 3 Market Penetration 3 Market Development 4 Product Development 4 Diversification 4 From Strategy to Implementation 5 Stage-Gate Product Innovation Process 7 Stage 0: Idea Generation 7 Stage 1: Scoping 7 Stage 2: Project Evaluation 7 Stage 3: Development 8 Stage 4: Testing and Validation 8 Stage 5: Launch 8 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11 Introduction In order to sustain growth and compete in today’s ever-changing business environment‚ organisations must
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NEW-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN TOURISM COMPANIES CASE STUDIES ON NATURE-BASED ACTIVITY OPERATORS Raija Komppula University of Joensuu Department of Economics Box 111 FIN-80101 JOENSUU Raija.Komppula@joensuu.fi ABSTRACT New product development in tourism companies has been a nearly ignored theme in tourism marketing literature. Research on product development has in major studies handled destinations‚ development of resorts or sites as a total tourist product. This paper will introduce two case
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Question 32. Define a new product and new product development process. Companies that excel at developing and managing new products reap big rewards. New products are the lifeblood of the company. A new product is a product: • That opens an entirely new market. • That adapts and replaces an existing product. • That significantly broadens the market for an existing product. • An old product introduced in a new market. • An old product packaged in a different
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Platt—Samsung How was Samsung able to go from copycat brand to product leader? Samsung was able to go from copycat brand to product leader by using a “new product development” strategy (Kotler and Armstrong‚ p.261). According to Kotler/Armstrong new product development is defined as the development of original products‚ product improvements‚ product modification‚ and new brand through the firm’s own product development. In 1993‚ the CEO and chairperson‚ Lee Kung Hee decided to revamp the company’s
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i PRODUCT 1 The new product process 1 1.1 Stages in the new-product process 1 New product strategy development 2 Objectives of the stage 2 Identify Markets and Strategic Roles 2 Cross-functional teams 2 Idea generation 3 Customer Suggestions 3 Employee and Co-worker Suggestions 3 Research and Development Breakthroughs 4 Competitive Products 4 Screening and evaluation 5 Internal Approach 5 External Approach
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challenging market environment‚ any business is expected to continuously focus on organizational learning and continuous improvement and introduction of products and services to stay alive in the market. Continuous learning helps organizations to identify gap between the current business and areas which could be tapped with the help of existing knowledge of the market which is close to our existing area of focus. This fits to services businesses as well as products businesses. Where there is a solution
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