Chapter 7 Flashcards
Product Characteristics
- Define the Product
- Essential Benefit
- Core Product
- Enhanced Product
The fundamental need met by the product
Essential Benefit
Product Classifications
- Tangibility
- Durability
- Consumer Goods
- Business Goods
Physical aspects of the product experience
Tangibility
The length of product uses; the projected lifetime of the product under specific operating conditions
Durability
Product Discrimination
- Form
- Features
- Performance Quality
- Conformance Quality
- Durability
- Reliability
- Repairability
- Style
Size, shape, color, and other physical elements of a product
Form
Any product attribute or performance characteristic and is often added or subtracted from a product to differentiate it from competitors
Features
The product’s ability to deliver on features and performance characteristics promised in marketing communications
Conformance Quality
The percentage of time the product works without failure or stoppage
Reliability
The ease of fixing a problem with the product
Repairability
Look and feel of the product
Style
Product Life Cycle
- Introduction
- Growth
- Maturity
- Decline
New Product Development Process
- Identify Product Opportunities
- Define the Product Opportunity
- Develop the Product Opportunity
Adopter Categories
- Innovators
- Early Adopters
- Early Majority
- Late Majority
- Laggards