Chapter 10:
Developing and
Managing Goods
and Services
Pride/Ferrell
Foundations of Marketing
Fourth Edition
Prepared by Milton Pressley
University of New Orleans
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Objectives
1. Understand how companies manage existing products
through line extensions and product modifications.
2. Describe how businesses develop a product idea into a
commercial product.
3. Know the importance of product differentiation and the
elements that differentiate one product from another.
4. Explain product positioning and repositioning.
5. Understand how product deletion is used to improve product
mixes.
6. Understand the characteristics of services and how these
characteristics present challenges when developing
marketing mixes for service products.
7. Be familiar with organizational structures used for managing
products.
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Managing Existing Products
An organization can
benefit by capitalizing
on its existing products
Aesthetic
Modifications
Functional
Modifications
Line
Extensions
Managing
Existing
Products
Product
Modifications
Quality
Modifications
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Line Extension
• Development of a
product that is
closely related to
existing products in
the line but meets
different customer
needs
Line Extension
Chocolate-flavored Chex Mix is
a line extension.
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Product Modifications
• Change in one or
more characteristics
of a product
Product Modification
Automobile companies employ
quality, functional, and
aesthetic modifications.
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Quality, Functional, and Aesthetic
Modifications
• Quality modifications
– Changes relating to a product’s dependability and
durability
• Functional modifications
– Changes affecting a product’s versatility,
effectiveness, convenience or safety
• Aesthetic modifications
– Changes to the sensory appeal of a product
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Developing New Products
• The term “new product” can have more
than one meaning
– Offering innovative benefits
– Different and distinctly better than existing products
– Never been sold by any organization
– One a specific firm is currently launching even though
other firms are already producing and marketing similar
products
– It is brought to one or more markets from another market
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Figure 10.1 Phases of
New-Product Development
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Phases of New Product Development
• Idea generation
– Seeking product ideas to achieve objectives
• Screening
– Choosing the most promising ideas for further review
• Concept testing
– Seeking potential buyers’ responses to a product idea
• Business analysis
– Evaluating the potential contribution of a product idea
to the firm’s sales, costs and profits
• Product development
– Determining if producing a product is technically
feasible and cost effective
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Test Marketing
• Introducing a product on a limited basis to
measure the extent to which potential customers
will actually buy it
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Commercialization
• Deciding on full-scale manufacturing and marketing
plans and preparing budgets
Stages of Expansion into a National Market During Commercialization
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Product Differentiation
• Creating and designing products so that
customers perceive them as different from
competing products
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Product Quality
• Characteristics of a product that allow it to
perform as expected in satisfying customer needs
• Every product possesses
a certain level of quality
• Products are judged by
consistency of quality
over time
Product Quality
Selected products are designed to
have a very high quality and to
use quality as a major competitive
tool.
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Product Design and Features
• Product Design
– How a product is conceived, planned, or produced
• Styling
– The physical appearance of a product
• Product Features
– Specific design characteristics that allow a product to
perform certain tasks
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Product Support Services
• Often referred to as
customer services, these
services include any
human or mechanical
efforts or activities a
company provides that
add value to a product
Product Support Services
CORT Furniture provides
product support services that
some other office furniture
manufactures do not.
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Product Positioning
• Creating and maintaining a certain concept of a
product in customers’ minds
Product Positioning
The makers of Dockers
position their products as
being comfortable, flexible,
and a reasonable value.
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Perceptual Mapping
• Created by questioning a sample of
consumers about their perceptions of
products, brands, and organizations with
respect to two or more dimensions
– Respondents are asked about their preferences
for product features to establish “ideal points” or
“ideal clusters”
• Represent a consensus about what a specific group of
customers desires in terms of product features
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Hypothetical Perceptual Map for
Pain Relievers
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Bases For Positioning
• Use competitors
– Head-to-head competition
– Avoiding competition
• Price
• Quality level
• Benefits provided by the product
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Repositioning
• A brand’s market share and profitability
may be strengthened by repositioning
• Can be accomplished by:
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physically changing the product
changing the price
changing distribution
changing image through promotional efforts
aiming product at a different target market
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After Reviewing This Chapter
You Should:
1.
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3.
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6.
7.
Understand how companies manage existing products
through line extensions and product modifications.
Be able to describe how businesses develop a product idea
into a commercial product.
Know the importance of product differentiation and the
elements that differentiate one product from another.
Be able to explain product positioning and repositioning.
Understand how product deletion is used to improve product
mixes.
Understand the characteristics of services and how these
characteristics present challenges when developing
marketing mixes for service products.
Be familiar with organizational structures used for managing
products.
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Key Concepts
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Line extension
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Consistency of quality
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Product modification
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Product design
•
Quality modifications
•
Styling
•
Functional modifications
•
Product features
•
Aesthetic modifications
•
Customer services
•
New-product development process
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Product positioning
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Idea generation
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Product deletion
•
Screening
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Intangibility
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Concept testing
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Inseparability
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Business analysis
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Perishability
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Product development
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Heterogeneity
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Test marketing
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Client-based relationships
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Commercialization
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Product manager
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Product differentiation
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Brand manager
•
Quality
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Market manager
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Level of quality
•
Venture team
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