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Chp. 8 Marketing
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New-Product Development | The development of original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands through the firm's own product development efforts. |
Idea Generation | The systematic search for new-product ideas. |
Idea Screening | Screening new-product ideas in order to spot good ideas and drop poor ones as soon as possible. |
Product Concept | A detailed version of the new-product idea stated in meaningful consumer terms. |
Concept Testing | Testing new-product concepts with a group of target consumers to find out if the concepts have strong consumer appeal. |
Marketing Strategy Development | Designing an initial marketing strategy for a new product based on the product concept. |
Business Analysis | A review of the sales, costs, and profit projections for a new product to find out whether these factors satisfy the company's objectives. |
Product Development | Developing the product concept into a physical product in order to ensure that the product idea can be turned into a workable market offering. |
Test Marketing | The stage of new-product development in which the product and marketing program are tested in realistic market settings. |
Commercialization | Introducing a new product into the market. |
Customer-Centered New-Product Development | New-product development that focuses on finding new ways to solve customer problems and create more customer-satisfying experiences. |
Team-Based New-Product Development | An approach to developing new products in which various company departments work closely together, overlapping the steps in the product development process to save time and increase effectiveness. |
Product Life Cycle | The course of a product's sales and profits over its lifetime. |
Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. |
Fashion | A currently accepted or popular style in a given field. |
Fad | A temporary period of unusually high sales driven by consumer enthusiasm and immediate product or brand popularity. |
Introduction Stage | The product life-cycle stage in which the new product is first distributed and made available for purchase. |
Growth Stage | The product life-cycle stage in which a product's sales start climbing quickly. |
Maturity Stage | The product life-cycle stage in which sales growth slows or levels off. |
Decline Stage | The product life-cycle stae in which a product's sales decline. |