Product Levels: The Customer-value Hierarchy The marketers need to address five product levels. Each level adds more customer value‚and the five constitute a customer-value hierarchy. 1. Core Benefit The fundamental need or want that consumers satisfy by consuming the product or service. Example 1: In case of a car Transportation from one place to another. Example 2: The customer in search of a hotel room demand only rest and sleep from a marketer. 2. Basic Product
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An Overview of OD Interventions Prelude • OD interventions are sets of structured activities in which selected org’nal units (target groups or individuals) engage in a task or a sequence of tasks with the goals of org’nal improvement and individual development. • Intervention constitute the action thrust of OD. Prelude • The OD practitioner‚ a professional versed in the theory and practice of OD‚ brings four sets of attributes to the org’nal setting: – a set of values – a set of assumptions about
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Youngstown Products‚ a supplier to the automotive industry‚ has seen its operating margins shrink below 20% as its OEM customers put continued pressure on pricing. Youngstown produces four products in its plants and has decided to eliminate products that no longer contributed positive margins. Details on the four products are provided below: Products A B C D Production Volume (units) 10‚000 8‚000 6‚000 4‚000 Selling Price $15.00
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Product * A good‚ idea‚ method‚ information‚ object or service created as a result of a process and serves a need or satisfies a want. It has a combination of tangible and intangible attributes (benefits‚ features‚ functions‚ uses) that a seller offers a buyer for purchase. The Product Concept * This orientation holds that consumers will favor those products that offer the most quality‚ performance‚ or innovative features. * A philosophy that a good product creates its own market‚
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Identify two new products (introduced to the consumer and/or business markets within the last year) and classify them as either: a new-to-the-world product‚ a new product line‚ an addition to the existing product line‚ an improvement and/or revision of existing product(s)‚ or a repositioning of an existing item. For each product selected‚ identify what challenges you think the developing company faced in marketing this product. What rate of diffusion and consumer adoption do you foresee for these
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players in this field like Pepsi‚ coke and many regional and local brands. There are many legal provisions which effects the decision of product manager. Rules was formed by Indian Standards Institution on 30 November 1970‚ after the draft finalized by the Food Hygiene‚ Sampling and Analysis Sectional Committee had been approved by the Agricultural and Food Products Division Council. This code has been prepared keeping in view that unless the factory producing the food is governed by a strict hygienic
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long time. A disposable product is a product designed for cheapness and short-term use. It includes paper products‚ shopping bags‚ water bottles‚ food packaging and plastic cutlery. Annually‚ about 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are produced in China‚ consuming 25 million of trees and bamboo plants; meanwhile‚ as world’s highest forest coverage nation‚ Japan imports 25 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks from China every year. (Q‚ Y‚ YU‚ 1999) Disposable products are brought by commercial
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Project Development: Product Placement 1) For our focus group we would like to show a little extract of a movie or series ( Big Bang theory‚ James bond movie….).After that‚ we would like to do a tour question about product placement in general (Probing question‚ open ended questions): What do you think of this segment of the series? Have you seen it before? Did you notice any brand product in the segment? Which ones can you name? Do you own any of these products? And especially
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Product Differentiation Definition: Development or incorporation of attributes (such as benefits‚ price‚ quality‚ styling‚ service‚ etc.) that a product’s intended customers perceive to be different and desirable. Advertising and promotion of a product is based on its differentiating characteristics. Source: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/product-differentiation.html Today‚ the market is crowded with similar brands‚ clamoring for the attention of customers. In order for their
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Introduction Stage Product: Apple iWatch The apple watch is in the introduction stage because it is brand new‚ soon to be released in the market in early 2015. Currently there are no sales revenue’s as it’s not released but Apple is already pumping big bucks into advertising‚ including commercials‚ web design on its website‚ print ads‚ collaborative marketing and more. The technology is completely new and therefore at its highest cost in terms of its build‚ testing‚ manufacturing‚ and educating buyers
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