www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-6119.htm Quick-service The product innovation process of restaurant chains quick-service restaurant chains Michael C. Ottenbacher Heilbronn University‚ Heilbronn‚ Germany‚ and 523 Received 20 May 2008 Revised 24 July 2008‚ 23 September 2008 Accepted 24 September 2008 Robert J. Harrington University of Arkansas‚ Fayetteville‚ Arkansas‚ USA Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to outline the innovation process activities described by quick-service restaurant (QSR)
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Marketing strategy and marketing planning Simply put‚ customers are no longer a given — the fact that company produces commodity doesn’t mean anyone will buy it. In order to continue to thrive‚ companies must acquire and keep customers. Because it is the only business function that deals directly with customers‚ marketing and sales has become an area of increasing focus for companies of all sizes. Every company conducts strategic planning through the course of its activity. The marketing strategy focuses
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The Innovative and New Product Development (NPD) Improving and updating product lines is crucial for the success for any organization. Failure for an organization to change could result in a decline in sales and with competitors racing ahead. The process of NPD is crucial within an organization. Products go through the stages of their lifecycle and will eventually have to be replaced There are seven phases of new product development. The approach of the three companies to NPD will be analyzed
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Diversification is a good way to increase profits‚ create more value or reduce market risks from having only one or few product lines. As such‚ different companies diversify for various reasons‚ and therefore‚ diversification can be either related or unrelated. However‚ not all the companies succeed when choosing diversification as part of their corporate strategy. Like everything else‚ diversification does come with its ups and downs. Diversification can be beneficial‚ but probably up to a certain
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Tesla’s Integration of Marketing Communications Tesla Motors Inc. gained widespread attention by producing the Tesla Roadster in 2008‚ the first federally-compliant electric vehicle. The roadster is also impressive because of its sports car design. Tesla then followed in summer of 2012 with the release of the Model S in the United States‚ which is a fully electric luxury sedan. Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of intrepid Silicon Valley engineers who set out to prove that electric
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’ITC Limited’. Though the first six decades of the Company’s existence were primarily devoted to the growth and consolidation of the Cigarettes and Leaf Tobacco businesses‚ the Seventies witnessed the beginnings of a corporate transformation that would usher in momentous changes in the life of the Company. ITC’s Packaging & Printing Business was set up in 1925 as a strategic backward integration for ITC’s Cigarettes business. It is today India’s most sophisticated packaging house. In 1975 the Company
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Introduction Growth is a dominant biological activity during the first two decades or so of human life‚ including nine months of prenatal life. It is a basic characteristic of all living organisms. The integrated nature of growth and maturation is largely maintained by constant interaction of genes‚ nutrients‚ hormones‚ and other factors. Healthy growth and development in early years life have a profound effect on health across the life span.(1) The first 1000 days of life are considered as the
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Ansoff Matrix Product Development Each company relies on a marketing strategy to advance themselves in the race for achieving marketing success. It is without doubt that companies have implemented a few effective of others and perhaps of their own according to the company business. The strategy which is surely utilized in most or all companies would be the Marketing Mix by Neil Borden and the business strategy of Ansoff’s Matrix Strategy. Without strategies like these‚ companies would cease
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Development and Manufacturing of New Product Candi Boley American intercontinental university Scenario information: From the scenario given I have recovered some of the following information about the topic. The first thing about this scenario is that this person is an inventor and has an idea on a new product they would like to develop. Although I was given this information‚ they failed to stretch their information by giving me details about the product they would be developing. The scenario
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economic growth process was recognised as far back as the 17th century when Walter Bagehot‚ in his classic Lombard Street‚ argued that it was England’s efficient capital markets that made the industrial revolution possible. Centuries later‚ modern day economists hold largely the same view that access to investment capital‚ through well functioning financial markets‚ is crucial for growth and development‚ particularly in capital-scarce developing countries. They maintain that stock markets facilitate
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