Product Strategy - How to Create Value

Description
describes about the product strategy and how it can value to the customer.

Product and Product Policy ….Creating Value?

A Product Manager’s Potential Interactions
Suppliers Trade Suppliers Research and development Manufacturing and distribution Advertising agency Agency media department Company media department Media sales reps Media

Promotion services

Premium suppliers Premium screening Store testing Sampling Couponing

Legal

Product manager

Packagin g Designers Researchers

Fiscal

Purchasin g Market research Publicity Sales Trade

Suppliers

Research suppliers

Changes Affecting Product Management • • • • • The Web Data explosion Increased emphasis of brands Changes in the balance of market power Increased importance of customer retention programs • Increased global competition

Product
Anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need.

Five Product Levels

Classification / Characteristic
Products Services

Durability
Tangibility Use

Intangibility Inseparability

Variability
Perishability

Differentiators
Product
• • • • • • • • • • • • Product form Features Performance Conformance Durability Reliability Reparability Style Design Ordering ease Delivery Installation

Service
Place

People
Equipment Communication material Symbols Price

Categories of Product - Service Mix
Pure tangible good Good w/ accompanying services
Edible oils, bulbs, books etc Durables

Hybrid
Service w/ accompanying goods Pure service

Hotels, Spa, Schools
Airlines Travel Agencies, VISA

Product

Service • Product mix & assortment • Width • Length • Depth • Consistency • Line Stretching • Line filling

Product Systems and Mixes

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Product

Service

• Packaging • Labels • Warranties & Guarantees • After Sales Service

Levels of Competition
Beers Ice cream Tea Regular colas

Diet lemon limes

Wine Diet Pepsi Fast food
Fruit flavore d colas

Diet Coke

Product form competition: Diet colas Juices

Bottled water

Lemon limes

Product category competition: Soft drinks

Video rentals

Baseball cards

Coffee

Generic competition: Beverages Budget competition: Food and entertainment

Levels of Competition: Implications for Product Strategy
Competitive Level Product Form Product Category Product Management Task
Convince Customers that the Brand is Better than Others Convince Customers that the Product Form is Best in the Category Convince Customers that the Product Category is the Best Way to Satisfy Needs

Generic

Budget

Convince Customers that the Generic Benefits are the Most Appropriate Way to Spend their Money

Product Life Cycle

Product Life Cycle – Marketing Implications
Introduction Characteristics
Sales Costs/ cust. Profits Customers Competitors Low High -ve Innovators Few Rising Avg Rising Early Adopters Growing Peak Low High Middle Majority Declining Low Declining Laggards Declining

Growth

Maturity

Decline

Stable but declining

Marketing Objectives Strategies
Product Price Distribution Advertising Sales Promotion

Product awareness & trials

Max. mkt share

Max. profits & defend mkt share

Reduce expenditures

Basic Cost + Selective Awareness in Segment Induce trials

Prod. Extns Penetration Intensive Mass awareness Reduce - heavy demand

Diversify Match competitor Intensive Brand difference Increase - brand switching

Phase out weak prods. Cut price Selective Aim at hard core loyalists Minimal

Other PLC Patterns

Long-Range Product Market Expansion Strategy

PRODUCT – SUMMING UP
•Product Levels •Classification of Products and Services •Differentiators and Service mix •Product Mix, Line, Width, Depth etc •Services – 5gap model, determinants of Service quality • PLC and its implication to marketers •Market entry and market expansion strategy



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