The document discusses various definitions and concepts related to marketing. It defines marketing as involving activities like buying and selling goods, transportation and storage to meet needs and demands in the market. Marketing is also defined as the process where individuals and groups obtain their wants and needs through production and exchange of goods and services. Another definition presented is that marketing is an advanced commercial term referring to a wide range of research, design, procurement, production, quality control, warehousing, preparation for consumption, price determination and sales identification activities.
20. Why New Products?
• New product development is critical to long-term success
• Approximately one-third of the revenue a business generates is
coming from products they did not sell five years ago
• Changing environment creates new demands and needs
21. Product Development
• Must be alert to quickly develop opportunities
• Focus on markets or product categories consistent with organization’s
objectives, resources, capabilities and strengths
• Securing a competitive advantage
22. Industrial New Product Ideas
• Company sources other than R&D 36.2%
• Analysis of the competition 27.0%
• Research & Development 24.3%
• Product users 15.8%
• Supplier suggestions 12.5%
• Product user research 10.5%
• Published information 7.9%
23. New Products
• A way of getting new and keeping old customers
• Effective way of obtaining a competitive advantage
• Source of growth and excitement
24. New Product Categories
• New to the world products
• New product lines
• Product line extensions
• Improvements and revisions to existing products
• Repositionings
• Cost reductions
27. Types of Partnerships
Vertical
• Vertical partnerships:
formed between different levels of the supply chain
• Buyer-supplier relationships
• Supplier – OEM customers
• Efficiencies in accessing materials
• Collaborate to innovate, differentiating end product
• Outsource service providers – business customers
28. Types of Partnerships
Vertical
• Manufacturers – distribution channel members
• Access to downstream markets
• Relay market information
• Companies – customers (end-users)
• Relationship marketing
• Long-term revenue stream
• Source of market information
29. Types of Partnerships –
Horizontal
• Horizontal partnerships
formed between firms that operate at the same level
of the supply chain
• Complementors
• Competitors
30. • Complementary Alliances
• Form with companies offering different components of the end-to-end
solution
• Allows each to maintain focus on own core competencies
• Stimulates demand through greater customer value
• Competitive Alliances
• “Competitive collaboration;” “co-opetition”
• Compete in some market domains, collaborate in others
31. Horizontal Partnerships and Financial Performance
• Higher financial performance from competitive alliance activity when:
• Moderate level of competitive alliance activity (versus low or high)
• More sophisticated competitor strategies/knowledge
• Win/win approach (versus win/lose)
32. Types of Partnerships –
Horizontal
• Industry consortium: industry-wide coalition
typically comprised of competitors who have a
shared interest
• Set industry standards
• Influence government regulations
• Pursue international markets
• Develop metrics for sustainability
33. Reasons for Partnering
• Gain access to resources and skills in a timely, more cost-efficient
manner
• Reasons vary over the product life cycle (next slide)
34. The Product Life Cycle, Innovation, and the
Role of Alliances
Emergence Growth Maturity Decline
Process
Innovation
Product
Innovation
Standards
Licensing
Technology
Licensing
R&D
Marketing
Manufacturing
Marketing
Process R&D
Attacker
Incumbent
High
Low
Rate of
Major
Innovation
Stage of Product Life Cycle
Alliance Types
35. The Product Life Cycle-
Emergence Stage
• Uncertainty surrounds product
• Purchasers are innovators and technology
enthusiasts
• Willing to take risks
• Require accurate portrayal of benefits and liabilities of
the innovation
• Require technically knowledgeable support
• Want new technology early and at a low cost
36. The Product Life Cycle-
Emergence Stage
• Why Partner?
• Alliances are valuable among potential competitors to
establish industry standards with:
• Licensing agreements
• Strategic alliances
• Diversification into complementary products
• Aggressive product positioning
(details on following slides)
37. The Product Life Cycle-
Partnering in the Emergence Stage
• Advantages of licensing strategy
• Ensures a wide supply base for the technology
• Limits the number of technologically incompatible product
choices for customers
• Hastens market acceptance
• Signals the possibility of a larger installed base
• Provides incentives for suppliers of complementary products to
pursue development
38. The Product Life Cycle-
Partnering in the Emergence Stage
• Drawbacks of licensing strategy
• May attempt to alter the technology to avoid paying licensing
fees or royalties
• Original developer loses a possible monopoly position
• Competition may lead to lower prices in the market
39. The Product Life Cycle-
Partnering in the Emergence Stage
• Strategic Alliance: cooperative agreement with
actual/potential competitor(s) to jointly sponsor
development of a technological standard
Advantages:
• Help ensure a wide supply base for the technology
• Build positive expectations for market demand
• Co-opt competitors
• Reduce confusion in marketplace
• Combined knowledge may produce superior product
40. The Product Life Cycle-
Partnering in the Emergence Stage
• Strategic Alliance
Drawbacks:
• Partner may appropriate the firm’s know-how in an
opportunistic fashion
41. “Go it alone” strategies for standard-setting
• Diversification
• Company offers multiple elements of the whole product solution
• Ex: iPod/iTunes
• Aggressive Product Positioning
• Company maximizes size of installed base by penetration pricing, wide
distribution, and many models/versions of product
Both strategies have pros/cons
42. Which Strategy to
Set Industry Standard?
Barriers to
Imitation
Firm has Requisite
Skills
Existence of Capable
Competitors
Aggressive Sole Provider High Yes No
Passive Multiple Licensing Low No Yes
Aggressive Positioning +
Licensing
Low Yes Yes
Selective Partnering High No Yes
43. The Product Life Cycle-
Growth Stage
• Dominant design becomes industry standard
• License to competitors
• Form R&D alliances to develop product extensions
• Form marketing alliances to access new markets
• Early adopters
• Needs increasingly clear
• Can envision the potential of the new technology
• Least price sensitive
• In a hurry to reap rewards
• Process technology replaces innovation in importance
44. The Product Life Cycle-
Maturity Stage
• High sales volume and revenue but slower growth
• Mass-market adopters
• Process innovation dominates to achieve cost
controls
• Outsourced relationships
• Marketing alliances
45. The Product Life Cycle-
Decline Stage
• Product replaced by new technologies
• License disruptive technology from a new
competitor
• Cycle begins again
46. Reasons to Partner
• Access resources and skills
• Gain cost efficiencies
• Speed time-to-market
• Access new markets
• Define industry standards
47. Reasons to Partner (cont.)
• Develop innovations and new products
• Develop complementary products
• Gain market clout
• Maintain focus on core competencies
• Learn from partners
48. Risks in Partnering
• Increase project complexity
• Loss of autonomy and control
• Decisions must be made jointly
• Success dependent on another’s efforts
• Loss of trade secrets
• Attempts to “disarm” competition
• Dilution of competitive advantage/ “de-skilling”
49. Risks in Partnering
• Legal issues and antitrust concerns
• Collaboration is necessary to compete globally
• Therefore, antitrust laws may encourage partnering
• Collaboration may decrease domestic competition
• Partnerships may come under scrutiny,
• Especially if they have an indirect impact on pricing
50. Risks in Partnering
• Failure to achieve objectives
• Incompatible cultures
• Lack of attention/resources in managing the relationship
• Trust issues
51. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Interdependence
• Shared mutual dependencies provide motivation for
partnership success
• Asymmetrical dependence leads to vulnerability and
possible exploitation
• Caution warranted with partners of unequal size
• Low levels of interdependence provide no motivation to
relationship
52. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Governance Structure
• Terms, conditions, systems, and processes used to manage
the alliance
• Unilateral: one party has authority to make decisions
• Bilateral: governance based on mutual expectations regarding
behaviors and activities
• Commitment
• Trust
• Communication
• Governance structure should match the partnership’s risk
level
53. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Commitment
• Desire to continue the relationship
• Committed members are less likely to
• take advantage
• make decisions that sabotage viability of relationship
• Demonstrated by
• Investments dedicated solely to the relationship
54. • Types of Commitment
• Economic need (“have to be committed”)
• Does not lead to partnership success
• Voluntary desire (“want to be committed”)
• Based on positive feeling and regard for partner’s contributions
• Associated with partnership success
• Moral obligation (“ought to be committed”)
55. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Trust
• Belief that partner’s decisions will serve best interest of the
partnership
• Partner will act honestly and benevolently
• Trust in the partner’s motives and intents
• Trust contributes to
• Effective information sharing
• Willingness to share scarce/sensitive resources
• Sense of mutual benefit
56. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Effective Communication
• Frequent sharing
• Includes proprietary information
• Bidirectional (two-way) communication
• Credible and reliable
• Both structured and ad hoc communication
57. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Perceived relationship fairness
3 Types of fairness
• Distributive: fairness in the distribution of awards
• Procedural: fairness of the process to determine distribution of
rewards
• Interactional: fairness of the nuances of interpersonal
treatment
Procedural fairness more important than
distributive fairness for long-term
relationship success.
58. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Compatible Corporate Cultures
• Different values and beliefs about how things are done
• Some companies have reputations as being hard to partner
with
• If corporate cultures clash, hard to realize partnership benefits.
59. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Integrative conflict resolution and negotiation
techniques
• Conflict resolution technique more important than the level
of conflict per se.
• Integrative resolution based on:
• Both parties have a shared stake in the outcome
• Addressing needs of both parties
• Identifying mutually beneficial solution (win/win)
• Escalate conflict beyond the operational level to senior level
• Negotiation is cheaper than legal recourse
60. Factors Contributing to
Partnership Success
• Judicious Use of Legal Contracts
• Contracts may violate the spirit of cooperation, but
• Contracts may also clarify obligations and expectations
• Contracts should be used in combination with bilateral
governance
61. • “Spirit of cooperation” is key
• Develop competency in partnering
• “cooperative competency;” “alliance competence;”
“partnering orientation”
62. Outsourcing
• High Risk/High Opportunity Vertical Partnerships
• Transfer an entire business function to a partner
• Types of Outsourcing
• Contract manufacturing
• BPO: Business Process Outsourcing
• ITO: Information Technology Outsourcing
• Innovation Outsourcing
• R&D, Product development, Design
• ODM Model: Original design manufacturer
63. Outsourcing
• Benefits: Gain access to expert performance
• Provider has refined knowledge in a specific function
• Scale economies
• Cost efficiencies
• Maintain focus on true core competencies
64. Global spending on outsourcing for various business functions
(2005)
$0 $100 $200
Logistics and Procurement
Electronics Manufacturing
Information Technology
Customer Care
Engineering
Finance and Accounting
Human Resources
Analytics
Dollar amountin billions
66. Outsourcing
• Offshoring
• Performing functions outside of client’s home country
• Captive Offshoring
• Company-owned facilities in another country
• Reverse outsourcing
• An outsourced company opens an office in original country
67. Outsourcing
• Nearshore outsourcing
• Outsource provider is near company’s own boundaries,
same time zone
• Home shoring
• Domestic outsourcing, or
• Hiring domestic workers in their own home
• Farm Shoring
• Outsourcing to domestic, rural areas
72. Outsourcing: Risks
• Cost Savings Don’t Materialize
• Difficult to calculate true cost in advance
• Quality Concerns
• 1-800 numbers: endless transfers, confusion
• Suppliers don’t understand customer’s business
• Dependence on Vendor
• “Switching costs”
73. Outsourcing: Risks
• Dilution of Competitive Advantage
• Less differentiation from competitor
• “hollowed out”
• Risk of Fostering New Competition
• Sharing trade secrets
• Public Backlash
• Political issue
74. Outsourcing:
Contingency Approach
Success of Outsourcing:
- Cost savings
- New insights
Contingency Factors:
- Criticality of business function
- Nature of business process/
Degree of customization
- Task Characteristics
- Vendor capabilities
- Governance
Outsourcing:
- Whether to outsource
- The degree of outsourcing
- Type of outsourcing
75. Outsourcing:
Criticality of the Business Function
• Define mission-critical business processes; break-through innovations
• Core intellectual property and skills
• Keep in-house
• For incremental innovation and non-critical processes
• Commodity knowledge and skills
• Outsource
76. Outsourcing:
Nature of Business Process
PROCESS COMPLEXITY
Simple Complex
Standardized
Process
Outsource
Captive offshoring, selective
outsourcing
Customized
Process
Selective
Outsourcing,
Automation
In-house, selectively
outsource some
components
77. Outsourcing: Task Characteristics
• Economies of scale
• Can the function be aggregated across customer/OEM
businesses?
• If not: don’t outsource
• Transfer of explicit, codified knowledge
• Can the function be clearly mapped and communicated to
outsource provider?
• If not: don’t outsource
• Clearly specified ownership of intellectual property
rights/risks
• Can intellectual rights/responsibilities be clearly articulated?
• If not: don’t outsource
78. Outsourcing: Task Characteristics
• Vendor Capabilities
• What are the specific capabilities to perform the task?
• Does the provider have the requisite capabilities to
perform them?
• Governance
• Particularly important for R&D alliances
• Controls can limit innovation but are necessary
• Controls should be “ex ante” (before the work) rather than
“ex post” (during the work)
79. Outsourcing: Best Practices
• Have clear reasons to outsource
• Not: “my competitors are”
• Don’t outsource a mess
• Map workflow/process carefully
• Set up the right type of outsource relationship
• Maybe captive offshoring, etc.
• Be ready for possible backlash
• Invest time and effort to make it work
• Treat partners as equals
80. Outsourcing: Future Outlook
• Continued evolution
• Globally
• Migration to low-cost areas
• Politically
• Rhetoric of lost jobs
• Mitigate with educated work force
• Managerially
• Balance in-house, strategic alliances, outsourcing
81. Open Innovation
• Breakthrough innovations developed by an “innovation
ecosystem”
• A global network of partners – suppliers, customers, competitors
• Innovation based on collaboration and sharing of expertise and
knowledge between partners
• Innovation processes transcend local industry clusters and
national boundaries
• Driving Factors
• Complexity and uncertainty of R&D
• Globalization of industries
• Convergence of technologies
• Resource constraints
82. New Product Alliances
• Unique form of strategic alliance to generate
innovation
• Paradox:
• “Logic of innovation”
• Spontaneous, serendipitous insights
• “Logic of alliances”
• Detail roles and responsibilities
• Formalized collaborative arrangements
• Sharing of knowledge and expertise requires trust,
but:
• Many strategic alliances lack trust
83. New Product Alliances
• Success:
• Spirit of cooperation
• Governance
• Horizontal (competitive) partners reluctant to share knowledge, but
their innovations exhibit:
• High levels of product creativity
• Fast development speed
• Geographic proximity does not inhibit information sharing as long as:
• Partners have close, relational ties
84. Industry Clusters
• Geographic concentrations of companies in a particular industry
• Silicon Valley in California
• Often highly innovative, due to:
• Enhanced knowledge sharing
• Economies in infrastructure, talent, and social relationships
85. Learning from Partners
• Knowledge sharing key to success of open innovation model
• Learning can contribute to positive relationship outcomes, but:
• Can also result in “de-skilling” of partner with loss of proprietary information.
• To learn “tacit knowledge,” firms must have close partnering
relationships—
• Which increases the risk of those partnerships
Use caution and appropriate governance structures.