strongest priority is “making customers happy”. Product Maturity McDonald’s in is the mature stage of their product life cycle. All the competitors are known and established. This means that they go for more of a cost structure to have a cheap product while still maintaining the MacDonald’s quality. Because the franchise maintains the same product line they can focus on cutting costs. Product Development Process MacDonald’s uses product development teams to gather many minds as a resource
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Investigation 1: There are two types of market research‚ Primary and Secondary. • Market research is gathering and analysing different types of data. • Primary Research is collecting research first hand. E.g.: surveys‚ consumer panels‚ and testing and observing a new idea. • Secondary research is data which is ready to use‚ has been used previously by other businesses. This type of data could be found on the internet or in books Primary Research: I would strongly advise
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12/04/2013 Big-Bang Disruption Case study Ruixi YANG 12/04/2013 Big-Bang Disruption Case study Ruixi YANG As we are entering in a new fast technology world‚ entire product lines are being created or destroyed overnight because of the disruptive technologies‚ which are based on the emerging ecosystem for innovation. The nature of innovation has changed dramatically‚ calling into question much of the conventional wisdom on business strategy and competition‚ especially in information-intensive
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Introduction: L’Oreal‚ the French cosmetic giant has become one of the leading players in the salon products sector in India. It marks its presence with a portfolio of 15 brands that grew over the span of nearly two decades in the Indian market‚ having an annual growth rate of 30 percent with a market share of 10 percent in the urban area. These different brands were launched in order to cover various product categories. “The mass consumer brands L’Oreal Paris‚ Garnier and Maybelline New York; luxury brands
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Principles of Marketing Company Case 4 I Want My VOIP!!!! #1. What are the advantages and disadvantages to Rita of accepting the Time Warner offer? Think carefully through the process that Rita would have to go through to switch telephone services. What would you do in her place? If I were her‚ I would first decide whether I should change the regular telephone to digital
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1.3 or 1.5 spec Individual product level: Exora‚Perdana‚Saga‚Neo PLC of Proton The product life cycle is an important concept in marketing. It describes the stages a product goes through from when it was first thought of until it finally is removed from the market. Not all products reach this final stage. Some continue to grow and others rise and fall. The main stages of the product life cycle are: Start Up – introductory phase of a lunch of a product Growth – new entrance are attracted
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Q1. Samsung Electronics strategy has successfully achieved both low-cost advantages and differentiated products. Samsung is able to achieve and maintain its low cost position due to various factors. Samsung has always emphasized on process and production efficiency. The company places all its fab lines and R&D facility at a single site‚ so that engineers from various departments can come together to resolve any process or design issues as soon as possible. Benefiting from the collocation‚ Samsung
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Executive Summary Dragonfly Designs already offers custom-made items and now we would like to expand our product lines and offer do-it-yourself items. Our existing location can be renovated to add the space needed for this service. We would also like to build a new facility with a larger work area for the do-it-yourself projects and kilns in the back area. The back area would be large enough to hold the inventory for both store locations. To accomplish these objectives‚ land needs to be found
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Bus 306-01 March 11‚ 2014 Professor Davis Chapter 9 Case Study Google: New-Product Innovation at the Speed of Light 1. The new product development process at Google is free flowing‚ fast-tracked‚ and without boundaries. Google encourages their employees to “think outside the box” and come up with new ideas‚ no matter how crazy they may seem. Once an idea is proposed‚ they sent it to testing right away. They try to put a product into use no more than 6 months after development has started; they are not
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Marketing group case presentations Group assignment: Each group has to present the case in front of the class with some main tasks as follows: + Summarise the case + Answer questions given for each case + Use powerpoint slides to presents ideas and answers Case for each chapter: No. Case Assigned Group 1 Chapter 2: The Olympics: Branding on a global stage (p. 65) G1 2 Chapter 3 - Xerox: adapting to the turbulent marketing environment (p. 93) G2 3 Chapter 5 - Apple: the keeper
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