PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS & CLASSIFICATIONS Product level: The customer value hierarchy Is product a tangible offering? No‚ it’s more than that. “Product” is anything which can satisfy market. People classify products according to customer value. It’s illustrated by this circle system. At the centre is core benefit which the customer really buy. Take Shilla‚ a hotel of SamSung group‚ for example‚ when you get there‚ what are you pay for? Is it a room‚ or a bed‚ or a shower? Not at all. Basically
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Substitutes The power of substitutes is moderate and it actually depends on the impact of substitute products. Smart phones do wide variety of functions so any product that specialize In one of those individual functions can also be termed as a substitute. Buyer power Buyers bargaining power is high because of the following reasons: * More choice of products and very limited differentiation of those products * Elastic demand- demand is highly sensitive to economy * Less asymmetric information-buyers
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Problem Identification 1. Demand on Edmunds Corrugated Parts and Services products are diminishing. 2. Remote location of its business. 3. High price of ram material. 4. Difficulty of replacing hardworking and loyal existing employee. II. Objectives 1. To keep the company of its current standing in the market in the future. 2. To develop new parts and products that will compete on new trends of shipping products. 3. To find other target market that will increase its market share. 4. To
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Determining Product Cost Managerial accountants must decide what types of managerial accounting information to provide to managers‚ how to measure such information‚ and when and to whom to communicate the information. For example‚ when making most strategic and operating decisions‚ managers typically rely on managerial accounting information that is prepared in whatever manner the managerial accountant believes provides the best analysis for the decision at hand. However‚ there is one major exception
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The question in the case is whether Kim should spend the fresh (2nd round) VC financing in Marketing and scale up the business or should focus the resources on fine tuning the existing product. Our recommendation is that the company should allocate around 70% of $4mn in marketing spend and 30% in product development and fine tuning the existing one. This recommendation is primarily based on the fact that the company should maximize the first mover advantage and develop barriers to entry by reducing
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Levels of a Product Consumers often think that a product is simply the physical item that he or she buys. In order to actively explore the nature of a product further‚ let’s consider it as three different products - the CORE product‚ the ACTUAL product‚ and finally the AUGMENTED product. This concept is known as the Three Levels of a Product. The CORE product is NOT the tangible physical product. You can’t touch it. That’s because the core product is the BENEFIT of the product that makes it
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Marketing New Product Assignment Case 1 Introduction: This case is largely based on Vanessa O ’Connell‚ "Food for Thought: How Campbell Saw a Breakthrough Menu Turn into Leftovers‚ the goals we need to reach is to gain the understanding of this company‚ why they can get the innovation and how they can manage it‚ also we can learn the experience of this company. The back ground of the company: In 1990‚ Campbell Soup was the undisputed
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The product life cycle concept is the explanation of the product from its birth to death as a product exists in different stages and in different competitive environments. William j.stanton Like humans every product have certain length of life during which it passes through various stages ‚ which can conceptually be represented as product ageing process. Similar to human life a product`s life can also divided into four parts. Introductory stage Growth stage Maturity stage Decline stage
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Destin Brass Products Co. Case 1. Cost: Material $22 Set-up Labor $0.48 Direct Labor $6.4 Machine Depreciation (0.2 hours
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1. INTRODUCTION In the 21st century design has become an individual language‚ which allows to make a choice in the world of unlimited opportunities as a universal device. People are trying to learn this language for a better interaction with products because design is everywhere. Modern society is always challenged by the choice of everyday objects. People are obsessed with innovations and trends. They demand more and more from designers. Human desire wants to avoid life monotony therefore designers
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