The document discusses new product development, defining it as the process of bringing a new product to market. It outlines the key stages in new product development, including idea generation, concept development and testing, business analysis, beta testing, technical implementation, commercialization, and pricing. The goal is to develop an understanding of customer needs and market opportunities before significant resources are invested in a new product.

1. New Product
Development
Sandeep Singh Saini

2. New Product
“A good, service or idea that is
“perceived” by some potential
customers as new. It may have been
available for some time, but many
potential customers have not yet
adopted the product nor decided to
become a regular user of the product.
Thus if they buy this product, it is new
product adoption.”

3. Definition
Customer perspective:-
Any product consumer treat as an
addition to the available choices could be
considered as a new product.
Firm’s perspective:-
New product are those that are
new to the company and may include major
modifications to the existing products,
duplications of competitors product, product
acquisition or innovative original products.

4. New Product Development
 In business and engineering, new product
development (NPD) is the term used to
describe the complete process of
bringing a new product to market.
 A product is a set of benefits offered for
exchange and can be tangible (that is,
something physical you can touch) or
intangible (like a service, experience, or
belief).

5.  There are two parallel paths involved in the
NPD process: one involves the idea
generation, product design and detail
engineering; the other involves market
research and marketing analysis.
 Companies typically see new product
development as the first stage in generating
and commercializing new products within the
overall strategic process of product life cycle
management used to maintain or grow their
market share.

6. Reasons for failure of new
products and services :
1. Marketers assess the marketing climate inadequately.
2. The wrong group was targeted.
3. A weak positioning strategy was used.
4. A less-than-optimal "configuration" of attributes and
benefits was selected.
5. A questionable pricing strategy was implemented.
6. The ad campaign generated an insufficient level of
awareness.
7. Cannibalization depressed corporate profits.
8. Over-optimism about the marketing plan led to a
unrealistic forecast.
9. Poor implementation of the marketing plan in the real
world.
10.The new product was pronounced dead and buried too
soon.

7. Tool for Avoiding Product Failure
 A new product developer can avoid failure by discovering
if an opportunity exists to provide customers with what they
want. Using QFD can help determine the acceptance of a
new product before development, production and
marketing costs are incurred.
 The early steps to develop a new product should include
determining if an opportunity exists to meet a customer
want. The organization should develop a thorough
understanding of the market need. This will help determine
the expected acceptance of the new product before
development, production and marketing costs are
incurred.
 An organization must not bypass the critical steps of
capturing and understanding the voice of the customer,
prioritizing requirements, performing trade-off analysis and
translating vague requirements into specific, unambiguous,
attainable requirements for a product actually wanted
and needed by the customer.

8. Cost Benefit Analysis
 COST ANALYSIS:
- A complete cost appraisal is necessary
as a part of the business analysis.
- it is difficult to anticipate all the costs the
product idea has not yet enter the
development stage.
- it take into account,

9. • advertisement expenses
• distribution costs
• dealer margins to consumers.

10. BENEFITS :
Profitability analysis is done through four
types of analysis namely……
_ break even
_ rate of return
_ pay out & discount cash

11. BLUE PRINT OF NEW PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT.
what is service development:
? what to manufacture.
? How to its price.
? How to sell it.
Stages of new service development:
- Generation of service idea.
- Screening of idea.

12.  Commercial feasibility or business analysis.
 Service designing .
 Test marketing.
 Commercialization.

13. New Product Development - Process
Idea Generation
Idea Screening
Concept Development & Testing
Business Analysis
Beta Testing and Market Testing
Technical Implementation
Commercialization
New Product Pricing

14. Idea Generation
 Idea Generation is often called the "fuzzy front end" of the NPD
process
 Ideas for new products can be obtained from basic research
using a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities &
Threats), Market and consumer trends, company's R&D
department, competitors, focus groups, employees,
salespeople, corporate spies, trade shows, or Ethnographic
discovery methods (searching for user patterns and habits) may
also be used to get an insight into new product lines or product
features.
 Lots of ideas are being generated about the new product. Out
of these ideas many ideas are being implemented. The ideas
use to generate in many forms and their generating places are
also various. Many reasons are responsible for generation of an
idea.
 Idea Generation or Brainstorming of new product, service, or
store concepts - idea generation techniques can begin when
you have done your OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS to support your
ideas in the Idea Screening Phase (shown in the next
development step).

15. Idea Screening
 The object is to eliminate unsound concepts prior to
devoting resources to them.
 The screeners should ask several questions:
 Will the customer in the target market benefit from the
product?
 What is the size and growth forecasts of the market
segment/target market?
 What is the current or expected competitive pressure for
the product idea?
 What are the industry sales and market trends the product
idea is based on?
 Is it technically feasible to manufacture the product?
 Will the product be profitable when manufactured and
delivered to the customer at the target price?

16. Concept Development and Testing
 Develop the marketing and engineering details
 Investigate intellectual property issues and
search patent data bases
 Who is the target market and who is the decision maker in
the purchasing process?
 What product features must the product incorporate?
 What benefits will the product provide?
 How will consumers react to the product?
 How will the product be produced most cost effectively?
 Prove feasibility through virtual computer aided rendering,
and rapid prototyping
 What will it cost to produce it?
 Testing the Concept by asking a sample of prospective
customers what they think of the idea. Usually via Choice
Modelling.

17. Business Analysis
 Estimate likely selling price based upon
competition and customer feedback
 Estimate sales volume based upon size of
market and such tools as the Fourt-
Woodlock equation
 Estimate profitability and break-even
point

18. Beta Testing and Market Testing
 Produce a physical prototype or mock-up
 Test the product (and its packaging) in
typical usage situations
 Conduct focus group customer interviews
or introduce at trade show
 Make adjustments where necessary
 Produce an initial run of the product and
sell it in a test market area to determine
customer acceptance

19. Technical Implementation
 New program initiation
 Finalize Quality management system
 Resource estimation
 Requirement publication
 Publish technical communications such as data
sheets
 Engineering operations planning
 Department scheduling
 Supplier collaboration
 Logistics plan
 Resource plan publication
 Program review and monitoring
 Contingencies - what-if planning

20. Commercialization
(often considered post-NPD)
 Launch the product
 Produce and place advertisements and
other promotions
 Fill the distribution pipeline with product
 Critical path analysis is most useful at this
stage

21. New Product Pricing
 Impact of new product on the entire product
portfolio
 Value Analysis (internal & external)
 Competition and alternative competitive
technologies
 Differing value segments (price, value, and
need)
 Product Costs (fixed & variable)
 Forecast of unit volumes, revenue, and profit