Why would a large manufacturer want to produce a private label product that will directly compete against their flagship product? Hopefully this activity will provide the answer.
Do Manufacturers Like Private Labels? Review the Teaching Activity
This company has an idea to modify the attributes of its existing product. The goal is to try and increase sales. However, there is a risk that sales could actually decrease instead – what do your students think?
Changing Product Attributes – A Good Idea? Review the Teaching Activity
By changing a product’s mix of attributes you effectively create new products, which may provide a unique solution. In this activity, students modify the mix of attributes for a table, in order to meet different needs.
Product Design = Mix of Attributes Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity for a banking ‘club”, students need to determine what would be the appropriate level of augmentation for each of the club’s elements.
Designing a Product’s Augmentation Review the Teaching Activity
Students choose between sets of competitive product offerings. One of the choices is more heavily augmented. How important is the augmented product in the decision? Are students willing to pay more?
Does Product Augmentation Provide Value? Review the Teaching Activity
The task in this activity is to classify the offerings of a computer retailer into core, actual and augmented product levels.
How to Classify Product Levels Review the Teaching Activity
This case study highlights the experience of two uni graduates have gotten themselves into a business ‘mess’. They are now at the stage of making a major dollar investment, and suddenly they’re not so sure it’s a a good idea.
Should We Launch? It’s Your Call! Review the Teaching Activity
In this case study, students review the new product development process for a firm and identify what they appeared to do well, and identify potential improvement areas for the future.
Improving the New Product Process Review the Teaching Activity
There are five different examples of how firms can structure their new product development project teams. Can students identify which team structure approach would be the most effective?
Product Development Team Structure Review the Teaching Activity
Smart TVs became popular within a few years, yet microwave ovens faced significant market resistance and took decades to get adopted. The challenge is to determine why this was the case.
Speed of New Product Adoption Review the Teaching Activity