

Further, multiple delivery mode (online, print black and white, print color) is a relatively new concept for textbooks. This textbook is an open-source text, meaning your professor can modify its contents.What are the risks associated with beta testing? What criteria would you use to select customers when needing a beta test?.What has been Apple’s pricing strategy throughout their products’ life cycles? If you made iPhone copycat products, what would your price have to be in order to compete successfully?.Why, given the availability of good research practices, do so many new products fail?.

Select a product you are familiar with and explain the stages of the product’s life cycle and different ways in which a company can extend its mature stage.How would you go through the product development process? How would you accomplish each step within that process? Assume you come up with an idea for a new electronic product you think your fellow students would really like.Who owns an idea? If a customer comes up with an innovation involving your product, and your company thinks that innovation can be commercialized, who owns the new product?.The following changes were made to the most recent edition: Created new title for Figure 7.4: Idea generation Created new title for Figure 7.6: Idea Screening Created new title for Figure 7.7: Process feasibility Removed Diet Coke Created new title for Figure Created new title for Figure 7.9: The introductory stage Created new title for Figure 7.10: The growth stage Created new title for Figure 7.12: Modifying target markets Removed Pepsi Figure Created new title for Figure 7.13: New products in international Markets Removed McDonalds in California figure Created new title for Figure 7.14: Technical products Added learning objectives for sections 7.2 and 7.3.

Section 7.2 The New Offering Development Process and Section 7.3 Managing New Products: The Product Life Cycle are edited versions of the chapter ‘Chapter 7: Developing and Managing Offerings’ from the textbook ‘Principles of Marketing,’ authored by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition, 2015 – this book was adapted from a work originally produced in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that it not receive attribution. No changes were made to the most recent edition, except adding learning objectives for section 7.1.

Introducing and managing the product’ from the textbook ‘Introducing Marketing, First Edition, 2011’ authored by John Burnett – this book was published under The Global Text Project, funded by the Jacobs Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. Section 7.1 Defining the “new” in a new product is an edited version of a section of the same title from the chapter ‘Chapter 7. 7.3 Managing New Products: The Product Life Cycle
