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Marketing Strategy
Chapter 6 (Offerings)
Marketing Principle #3
All Competitors React Managing
Offering-based Sustainable Competitive
Advantage
2. Agenda
Introduction
Offering and Innovation Strategies
Developing Innovative Offerings
Repositioning and Disruptive Innovations
Conjoint Analysis
Launching and Diffusing Innovation Strategies
Psychological, People, and Products Factors
Bass Diffusion Model
Managing Offering-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantages
Steps to Building Offering Equity
Research Approaches to Designing and Launching New Offerings
Takeaways
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3. Developing an Innovative Offering is
Critical to Many Firms’ SCA
GE is pursuing 100 “imagination breakthrough” projects to drive
growth
“Innovation is the only way that Microsoft can keep customers
happy and competition at bay” (Ballmer)
Today, innovation is the number one strategic priority at 40% of
companies versus 19% in 2005 (BCG)
86% of senior managers believe that “innovation is more
important than cost reduction for long-term success” (Bain)
However: short-term business pressures often undermines
innovation
CEOs want returns from marketing in 6-12 months
Resources taken from long-term initiatives to hit short-term targets
Accounting practices for market-based assets impact decisions
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4. Innovation Offering
Innovative new offerings help firms build and maintain SCA
and barriers to the competitive attacks that arise because
competitors continually react to a firm’s success (MP#3)
Offering is a purposely broad term that captures both
tangible products and intangible services provided by firms
Most offerings must be augmented by and linked to brands
and relationships to ensure the firm’s SCA, because it
generally is relatively easy for competitors to copy offerings,
given enough time and money
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5. Example: Dell (US)
Dell operates in a technology space, but perhaps its most compelling
innovation has been the ordering and logistics processes that it
introduced in the market
Building-to-order “semi-custom” computer products and selling them
directly to consumers online was radical when it first appeared
Dell’s SCA did not depend on its design or manufacturing competencies;
Dell even outsourced the manufacturing. Rather, the SCA came from an
offering in which it built computers to order, sold them online, and
significantly cut costs by avoiding the expenditures associated with
maintaining storefronts and inventory or suffering obsoletion costs
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6. What Is Innovation?
Innovation is the “creation of substantial new value for
customers and the firm by creatively changing one or more
dimensions of the business”
Key Aspects of Innovation
Broader than product or technology innovation
Must generate new value for customer and seller
Involves change leading to differentiation and SCA
How did Starbucks, Dell, and IPod create value and SCA?
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See 12 Different
Ways for
Companies to
Innovate
(Sawhney, Wolcott, and Arroniz) 6
7. Many Aspects of the Offering Can be
Innovated
There are many different ways a firm can innovate; it helps define the
innovation space according to what, who, how, and where aspects
Change what the firm offers, in line with a traditional view of new product or
service innovation
Changing who the customer is represents another route that involves
innovations related to customers, experiences, and value capture
Changing how you sell to customers pertains to the processes, organizations,
and supply chains that a firm uses
Changing where to sell to customers comprises presence, networking, and
brand innovations
Innovation Rader
Captures many different ways a firm can innovate; helps define the innovation
space according to what, who, how, and where
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8. Offering
Develop new
products or
services Platform
Use
interchangeable
designs
Solutions
Provide a total
solution
Value capture
Change how
customers pay
Experience
Change
customer
interactions
Customer
Change
customers to
target
Processes
Change
operating
processes
Organization
Change firm
structure
Supply chain
Change supply
chain
Presence
Change where
products are sold
Networking
Interconnections
as a strength
Brand
Leverage
the brand
into new
markets
Changing
what the firm
offers
Changing who
the customer
is
Changing
how to sell to
customers
Changing
where to sell
to customers
Adapted from Sawhney, M., Wolcott, R.C., & Arroniz, I.
(2006), “The 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate,”
MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 47 (3), p. 75.
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11. Innovation Radar Exercise: Take a Few
Minutes and Develop Innovation Ideas
Team exercise
Think of one way to innovate
for the assigned radar
dimension
Use one of the companies
below:
Your firm
T-Mobile
Microsoft
Alaska Airlines
Nordstrom
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1. Offering: Develop new products or new services
(IPOD)
2. Platform: Design modular platforms and
strategic control points (Nissan)
3. Solution: Solve end-to-end customer problems
(John Deere)
4. Customer: Discover unmet customer needs or
underserved segments (DIY)
5. Experience: Rethink how customers interface
with you (IKEA)
6. Value Capture: Redefine how you get paid
(Google)
7. Processes: Innovate in your core operating
processes (Progressive)
8. Organization: Change form, function or scope
(IBM, Arrow)
9. Supply chain: Rethink sources (Dell)
10. Presence: Innovative points of presences
(Starbucks at airport)
11. Networking: Integrated offering, leverage others
(Otis elevator)
12. Brand: Leverage the brand into new domains
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12. Benefits of Innovation and Offering’s Equity
By building offering equity, an innovative firm can make it more difficult
for competitors to encroach on its business
Offering equity refers to the core value that the performance of the
product or service offers the customer, absent any brand or relationship
equity effects
New offerings often motivate customers to switch from competitors to
the innovative firm, to gain access to the new product
New offerings also can help the firm acquire new customers or enter new
markets when they offer similar performance but at a lower price
Offering new and innovative products tends to enhance the firm’s brand,
even if customers don’t buy the new offering
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13. Example: BlueScope (Australia)
BlueScope is an international supplier of steel products based in
Australia
Patented groundbreaking Castrip process that produces 70% less
greenhouse gas emissions and requires 10% of the floor space of
conventional steel mills
To protect its offering equity from foreign competitors, the innovation is
patented. The protected innovation is highly anticipated to enhance
BlueScope’s positioning as a leading global supplier of steel products and
solutions.
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14. Example: TomTom (the Netherlands)
Netherlands-based electronics company TomTom launched its first
navigation product in 2002 when there were relatively few firms focusing
on this area
Through quick innovation and responding to customers’ needs, TomTom
was able to stay ahead of its competitors and build itself into a world-
recognized brand that, by 2007, had more than 50% of the market share
in Europe for navigational devices
However, GPS-enabled smartphones have now disrupted TomTom’s once
strong position in this application.
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15. Agenda
Introduction
Offering and Innovation Strategies
Developing Innovative Offerings
Repositioning and Disruptive Innovations
Conjoint Analysis
Launching and Diffusing Innovation Strategies
Psychological, People, and Products Factors
Bass Diffusion Model
Managing Offering-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantages
Steps to Building Offering Equity
Research Approaches to Designing and Launching New Offerings
Takeaways
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16. Offering and Innovation Strategies
Marketing contributes to and defines offering and innovation strategies
in two main ways:
1. It helps the firm develop innovative offerings by collecting customer input
and forecasting customer and market trends, so that the firm can understand
the trade-offs among potential product attributes
2. Marketing is responsible for launching the new offering to customers to
generate sales with acceptable profit levels
Many good products fail to achieve their set financial objectives due to
poor product launches
Extensive efforts go in to test marketing and understanding the factors
that will influence whether customers adopt a new offering and increase
the likelihood of a successful launch
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17. Developing Innovative Offerings
Most firms rely on a stage-gate development process to increase the
speed of their offering development and enhance their likelihood of
success, while also reducing development costs
A stage-gate model divides the development process into a series of steps
or stages
Each project gets evaluated, on multiple dimensions, by independent
evaluators in each stage
This method thus helps ensure effective development approaches
through several elements
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18. Concept and Definition Design and Development Validation and Production Final Audit
The concept and
definition stage consists
of an initial screening of
all potential ideas,
concept assessment,
project definition, and
feasibility assessment.
The design and development
stage consists of product and
process design and development.
Financial feasibility
considerations also are
pertinent, including testing of
price points and customer
acceptance.
The validation and production
stage consists of continued
market launch planning and
product manufacturing and
process validation. It also may
include test marketing and
evaluation of launch plans.
The audit stage consists of
final product and product
assessments. It often
includes some reflection on
the previous steps.
Initial
ideas
New Product
Stage-Gate Design Review Process for Effective
Product Development
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19. Example: Tata Motors (India)
Tata Motors innovated the Nano, the cheapest car in the world, launched
in 2009 at a sale price of just $2,000
Most car manufacturers use a sedan chassis to begin building new
models; Tata challenged the conventional wisdom and started with a
blueprint featuring a scooter’s backbone
The ultimate product cost less to build and thus was affordable in the
Indian market, but perhaps even more important, it turned out to be
better suited to busy Indian traffic patterns, which require quick and
frequent maneuvering
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20. Repositioning Strategies
An innovative offering can result from dramatically repositioning an
existing offering, such as removing some features or adding others, so
that the total offering appeals to a different customer segment with a
“new” value proposition
The advantage of this strategy is that it generally does not require a new
technology or invention, and marketers thus can to take the lead in these
efforts
Red Ocean markets—thus named to reflect the metaphor of blood in the
water—are very competitive and populated by “sharks” fighting over the
same customers
To pursue more disruptive repositioning strategies, firms instead can
seek out Blue Ocean markets, a metaphor reflecting the blue hue of the
deep ocean waters that are far from land
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21. Red vs. Blue Ocean Innovation Approach
Classic STP focuses on red ocean strategies and
incremental innovation
Known market space, competitive rules, and industry boundaries
(lifecycle mindset)
Product mature and become commodities
Can be managed, tested, and analyzed
Disruptive positioning focuses on the blue ocean
Market space does not exist (unknown boundaries)
Demand is created rather than fought over (often no direct
competition)
Hard to test, more of an art, often requires intuition, high risk
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22. Example: Cirque du Soleil (Canada)
Cirque du Soleil removed two familiar features associated with
traditional circuses like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey: large
animals (e.g., elephants, lions) and big name stars (e.g., The Flying
Wallendas, Antoinette Concello). Then it added theater-like productions,
each with a different theme and original music
Cirque du Soleil raised prices and redefined their target market. Rather
than children and families, it sought to appeal to adults, couples on dates,
and business clientele
Cirque du Soleil removed substantial cost drivers from the innovative
offering, added new and unexpected features, and developed a new target
market
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23. Defining Characteristics of Blue Ocean
Initiatives
Don’t use competitors as the benchmark
Rejects tradeoff of value versus cost
Redefines value proposition
Example: Cirque du Soleil
Reduced cost-animals and stars
Added value-theater like production with theme, original musical
Often first mover develops barrier to imitation
Economies of scale (Wal-Mart, Fed-Ex)
Brand (Cirque du Soleil, Fed-Ex)
Switching costs (Quicken)
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24. Comparison of Red and Blue Ocean Strategies
Red Ocean Strategies Blue Ocean Strategies
New offerings are brand and line
extensions, representing incremental
innovations (uses STP processes)
Less numerous but more radical and
repositioned offerings, focused on
creating new markets
Account for the majority of sales but
earn lower relative profit levels
Success generates higher profit levels
High competitive rivalry in existing
markets
Creates a new market with less
competitive rivalry
Must beat existing competition Often transforms the image of
competitors’ brand features, such that
they become a negative attribute in the
new market
Attempts to capture a portion of existing
market demand
Attempts to create new market demand
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25. New Technology – Based Innovation Strategies
A technological innovation can undermine a firm’s
leadership position in a market, even if that firm is doing
everything else well
To describe the process and ultimate outcomes of innovative
technologies, Clayton Christensen has offered the
framework, which highlights two main categories of these
technologies
Sustaining technologies are well understood and typically exploited
by market leaders, which produce continuous, incremental
improvements over time
Disruptive technologies accordingly present highly different price
and performance characteristics or value propositions
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26. Sustaining Versus Disruptive “Technological”
Innovation
Companies doing everything well can lose their leadership
position due to failing to manage disruptive innovations
(Polaroid, Xerox, DEC)
Sustaining technologies improve performance of
established products along dimensions valued by
mainstream customers in major markets
Products often overshoot customer needs
Processes support incremental product improvements (lower risk)
Disruptive technologies result in “worse” product
performance, at least in the near term
Brings to market a different value proposition than available
previously
Underperforms established products in mainstream markets
Typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, or more convenient to use
Small off-road motorcycles and transistor radios
Eventually are good enough (servers vs. mainframes)
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27. Disruptive technology
With its very different price
and performance
characteristics this
technology often improves
very quickly.
High-End Customers
Low-End Customers
Incremental
enhancement
Time
Performance
Features
Sustaining technology
This well-understood
technology will lead to
continuous, incremental
improvements over time.
Adapted from Christensen, C.M. (1997), The Innovator's Dilemma: When
New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. (Boston, Mass.: Harvard
Business School Press)
Incremental
enhancement
Sustaining Versus Disrupting Technical
Innovations
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30. Mini-Mills Took 50% Share by Starting
with Low-End Rebar
STEEL
QUALITY
TIME
1985
1980
1975 1990
% IN TONS
7%
25-30%
15%
12%
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31. Transistors Were First Used in New
Markets
Time
Time
Performance
Different
Performance
Measure
Non-consumers or
Non-consuming contexts
Sony 1955
Sonotone 1952
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32. Disruptive Innovations Occur in Either
Low-End of Existing or in New Markets
Low End Disruptions
Nucor’s steel mini-mills
Vanguard’s index mutual funds
Dell’s direct-to-customer business
model
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New Market Disruptions
Bell telephone (telegraph)
eBay online marketplace
Transistor radios
Why?
Cannot compete with existing, sustaining products
Leaders want to incorporate new technologies into existing markets and
products
33. Why do Market Leaders Fall into This
Trap?
Companies find it difficult to invest in disruptive innovations –
lower-margin opportunities that their customers don’t want
Growth targets bias firm’s toward larger markets
Markets for disruptive innovations cannot be quantified, which
biases decision making
Competition leads to oversupplying performance relative to
what customers want
Solution: set up an autonomous organization tasked with
building an independent business around the disruptive
innovations (e.g., H&R Block Tax Cut Software in response to
Turbo Tax)
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34. Overall: Must Manage Portfolio of Red
Ocean/Sustaining and Blue Ocean/Disruptive
Innovations
Ensure business is conducting classical STP and stage-gate
innovation
Constant flow of new products (incremental)
Need uncompromised customer/competitive input
Develop a forum/process to enable/manage radical and
disruptive innovation
Challenge managers to change the game
Radical changes to offering and new markets
Disgruntled customers (lost customers)
Offsite scenarios
Outsource, partners, alliances, acquisitions
Hire outsiders from different industries
Track potentially disruptive technologies, use internal “start ups”
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35. Conjoint Analysis Helps Make New
Offerings “More” Successful
Product superiority drives financial success
Largest predictor of new product success
Good designs are 5 times more likely to succeed than poor designs
Product design requires making tradeoff decisions (price,
performance, size, location, features…)
Conjoint analysis: process for determining the “unit-less”
tradeoff among attributes and set of attributes that
maximizes appeal (sales, share)
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36. Conjoint Analysis
With a conjoint analysis, marketers can design and
develop new products by thinking of products as bundles
of attributes, then determining which combination of
attributes is best suited to meet the preferences of
customers.
DAT 6.1
Description
• To identify product attribute trade-offs that customers are willing to make for a
new product.
• To predict the market share and impact of a proposed new product (i.e., bundle of
attributes).
• To determine the amount that customers are willing to pay for a new product
When to Use It
How it Works
In this view, a product consists of multiple attributes that together provide benefits to a customer. For example, a smartphone customer might
think about call quality, operating system, screen size, and camera quality benefits. If a firm decides to design a new smartphone, it cannot just
ask customers about what features they care about; most customers would say they wanted the best version of all the features. Instead, the firm
can simulate a trade-off: Would you rather have better camera quality or a smaller (or bigger) screen size? The trade-offs reflect how customers
actually make decisions, because few of them can afford the best options for all attributes in every product. Another basic assumption
underlying conjoint measurement is that customers cannot reliably express how they weight the separate product features when forming their
preferences. Instead, marketers need to infer these relative weights by asking for evaluations (or choices) of alternate product concepts, using a
structured process. Thus, during a conjoint exercise, rather than directly asking customers about the significance of product attributes, the
analyst uses a more realistic setting and asks customers to evaluate alternative scenarios or product profiles, each with multiple product
attributes. Then it is possible to infer the significance of each product attribute from the ratings that customers provide for each scenario,
reflecting their overall product preference. The conjoint formula is:
𝑅 𝑃 =
𝑗=1
𝑘𝑗
𝑖=1
𝑚
𝛽𝑖𝑗𝑥𝑖𝑗
where P is the product bundle, comprising certain attributes; R(P) is the rating associated with product P; ij is the part-worth utility associated
with the jth level (j = 1, 2, 3, ..., kj) of the ith attribute; kj is the number of levels of attribute I; m is the number of attributes; and xij equals 1 if the
jth level of the ith attribute is present in product P, and 0 otherwise.
With data collected from such a conjoint experiment, we can estimate the underlying value of each product attribute, or its part-worth utility
(ij). The estimated part-worth utilities from a conjoint analysis can provide the answers to many marketing questions, such as which product
configurations are optimal and how much market share an offering is likely to capture.
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37. A smartphone manufacturer wants to design a new phone for its target demographic. The main product attributes the manufacturer
wants to focus on are camera resolution quality, screen size, and price. The manufacturer also wants to understand customers’
willingness to pay for the new smartphone. Thus, it designs a conjoint study for 250 customers to provide a product rating score (0 =
least preferred, 100 = most preferred) for eight alternative smartphones, according to their price, camera resolution, and screen size.
One of the eight products is provided here for illustration:
With the rating scores from the 250 customers, the manufacturer can apply the conjoint formula and estimate the part-worth utilities
associated with each product attribute. Let’s say that our hypothetical customers, reasonably, prefer the $500 smartphone more (part-
worth = 25) than the $600 option (part-worth = 0). They also want an 8 MP smartphone (part-worth = 10) rather than a 6 MP one
(part-worth = 0) and a 6.5-inch screen (part-worth =20) more than a 5.5-inch one (part-worth = 0).
The part-worth difference between the 5.5- and 6-inch phone options (20 – 0 = 20) is twice as great as the difference between the 8 and
6 MP versions (10 – 0 = 10), so screen size appears twice as important as camera resolution quality. The part-worth difference between
the $500 and $600 smartphones was 25 (25 – 0 = 25), which implies that each part-worth unit is worth $4 ($100 = 25 units, or 1 unit =
$4). Noting that the part-worth difference between the 5.5- and 6-inch phone options was 20 units, the manufacturer can estimate that
customers are willing to pay $80 (i.e. $4 x 20 units = $80) more for a 6-inch screen than for a 5.5-inch version.
Thus, this manufacturer should produce a phone with 6 MP camera quality, a 6-inch screen size, and a price that is $80 more than the
base price of $500.
Conjoint Analysis Example
DAT 6.1
Example
How likely are you to buy this smartphone?
(Use a scale from 0 to 100, where 0=“definitely will not purchase” and 100 means “definitely will purchase”.)
Price $500
Camera Resolution 5 MP
Screen size 2.5 inches
Your Rating (0 to 100, where 100 is most likely to buy):
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38. Conjoint Analysis Process
1. Design study
Select attributes and levels (range and #)
Develop bundles (< 16 optimal)
2. Collect data from respondents
Design data collection instrument
Calculate partworths
3. Evaluate product design options
Evaluate market simulations
Evaluate different choice rules
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39. Cost of Program (2 levels)
Rigor of Program (2 levels)
Location of Program (3 levels)
Prestige of Program (2 levels)
Attributes A total of 24(2x2x3x2) different
programs can be developed from
these options!
Cost of Program
Rigor of Program
Location of Program
Prestige of Program
Designing an EMBA Program
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More than $20,000 per year
Less than $20,000 per year
Requires more than 10 hrs/week
outside of class
Requires less than 10 hrs/week
outside of class
More than 30 miles from home
Between 10 and 30 miles from
Within 10 miles of home
Top 10 ranked business school
Not top 10 ranked business
school
40. Collecting EMBA Ratings Data
Model generates bundles
Each respondent rates each bundle from 0 to 100 on likely
to buy this offering
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Attributes / Bundles Bundle 1 Bundle 2 Bundle 3 Bundle 4 Bundle 5 Bundle 6 Bundle 7 Bundle 8
Cost of Program
less than $20,000
per year
more than
$20,000 per year
less than $20,000
per year
more than
$20,000 per year
less than $20,000
per year
more than
$20,000 per year
less than $20,000
per year
more than
$20,000 per year
Rigor of Program
requires more
than 10hrs/week
work outside of
class
requires less than
10hrs/week work
outside of class
requires more
than 10hrs/week
work outside of
class
requires less than
10hrs/week work
outside of class
requires less than
10hrs/week work
outside of class
requires more
than 10hrs/week
work outside of
class
requires less than
10hrs/week work
outside of class
requires more
than 10hrs/week
work outside of
class
Location of Program
more than 30
miles from home
more than 30
miles from home
between 10 and
30 miles from
between 10 and
30 miles from
within 10 miles of
home
within 10 miles of
home
between 10 and
30 miles from
between 10 and
30 miles from
Prestige of Program
not top 10 ranked
business school
top 10 ranked
business school
top 10 ranked
business school
not top 10 ranked
business school
not top 10 ranked
business school
top 10 ranked
business school
top 10 ranked
business school
not top 10 ranked
business school
Respondents / Ratings Bundle 1 Bundle 2 Bundle 3 Bundle 4 Bundle 5 Bundle 6 Bundle 7 Bundle 8
Respondent 1 70 85 90 60 50 90 100 65
Respondent 2 75 95 25 55 55 85 65 70
Respondent 3 65 35 85 65 80 95 75 60
Respondent 4 60 90 80 50 60 80 80 55
Respondent 5 80 60 80 70 40 100 60 75
41. Partworths Computation and
Interpretation
Understanding partworth utilities (for each respondent):
Least favorable level in each attribute is 0
Most favorable level across all attributes sum to 100
Can compare relative importance across attributes and respondents
Best product for customer 1: Less than $20,000 per year, requires more than
10/hrs/week work outside of class, between 10 and 30 miles from home, and
is a top ranked business school. Ranking is most important and is over 12
times more important than cost (< or > 20k$).
Respondents /
Attributes and Levels
less than
$20,000 per
year
more than
$20,000 per
year
requires more
than
10hrs/week
work outside of
class
requires less
than
10hrs/week
work outside of
class
more than 30
miles from
home
between 10
and 30 miles
from home
within 10 miles
of home
not top 10
ranked
business school
top 10 ranked
business school
Respondent 1 5 0 11 0 16 19 0 0 65
Respondent 2 0 35 0 6 52 0 27 0 6
Respondent 3 19 0 19 0 0 31 56 0 7
Respondent 4 3 0 0 3 23 0 10 0 70
Respondent 5 0 24 55 0 0 3 0 0 18
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42. Using Conjoint Analysis to Evaluate
Strategic Alternatives
Enter alternatives and/or competitive offerings into model
Can also enter market share of any known offerings to “tune”
model
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Attributes / Existing
Product Profiles
Cheap-n-Easy MBA Flashy MBA Value MBA
Cost of Program
less than $20,000 per
year
more than $20,000 per
year
less than $20,000 per
year
Rigor of Program
requires less than
10hrs/week work
requires more than
10hrs/week work
requires more than
10hrs/week work
Location of Program
more than 30 miles
from home
between 10 and 30
miles from home
within 10 miles of home
Prestige of Program
not top 10 ranked
business school
top 10 ranked business
school
not top 10 ranked
business school
43. Model Estimates Market Share of Each
Offering for Different Decision Rules
Cheap-N-Easy
MBA
Flashy MBA Value MBA
First choice 5% 72.5% 22.5%
Share of
preference
11.8% 50.2% 38.0%
Logit choice 15% 48.6% 36.4%
Market Share by Offering
First choice rule: each customer selects the product that offers
him/her the highest utility among the competing alternatives
Share of preference rule: customer selects each product with a
probability that is proportional to the utility of that compared to
the total utility derived from all the products in the choice set
Logit choice rule: alternative to share rule by using an
exponential weighted utility
Decision Rules
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44. MarkStrat Conjoint 1: Relative Importance
Across Attributes (by segment)
Chart shows the relative importance of price and the three
physical attributes that are perceived as most important
(sums to 100)
Insight into most important attributes per segment
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45. MarkStrat Conjoint 2: Utility of
Attributes
Chart show the utilities attached
to four levels for given attribute
Utilities are measured on a scale
from 0 (very low utility) to 100
(very high utility)
Results are broken down by
segments
Insight into ideal value of attribute
for segment
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Adopters
Resolution
46. Agenda
Introduction
Offering and Innovation Strategies
Developing Innovative Offerings
Repositioning and Disruptive Innovations
Conjoint Analysis
Launching and Diffusing Innovation Strategies
Psychological, People, and Products Factors
Bass Diffusion Model
Managing Offering-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantages
Steps to Building Offering Equity
Research Approaches to Designing and Launching New Offerings
Summary
Takeaways
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47. 75% of Products Launched End Up
Failing to Meet Objectives
Failure to provide large enough perceived benefit (poor
development)
No differential advantage (BenGay Aspirin)
Price versus performance (Apple Newton)
Poor product launch (slow diffusion)
Poor targeting of new product (Earring Ken)
Poor positioning of new product (Breakfast Mates, with
warm milk and spoon)
Competitive response (Betamax and VHS)
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48. Example: Kellogg’s (US)
Launched Breakfast Mates – a single serving of breakfast cereal, a spoon,
and a serving of pasteurized milk that did not require refrigeration
Kellogg’s positioned the innovation as a solution for harried parents who
wanted to give their children breakfast in the morning but were often
rushing out the door to make it to school on time
Positioning was ineffective, because Kellogg’s failed to realize that
parents hated the idea of giving their children a product that would
enable them to spill milk all over the back seat of the car
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49. Some Relevant Consumer Psychology
on Persuasion
Social proof: looking at others is a way we
determine what to do (Jonestown, testimonials)
More people → larger belief it is correct
More similar people → larger impact on behavior
Authority: we have a deep-seated sense of respect
for authority and status (Mercedes vs. Ford study)
Scarcity: things seem more valuable when their
availability is limited
Prospect theory: describes person’s perceived
value for an objective gain or lost
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50. Understanding Prospect Theory
Subject Value
(i.e. Psychological Impact)
Objective Gains
Objective Losses
Current
Wealth State
Or
“Status Quo”
V (-)
+ $600
V (+)
- $200
Endowment effect: people
value things in their possession
more than when they don’t have
the item. Effect of loss of item is
larger than the gain (electric
car).
1) Relative to reference
point
2) Decreasing marginal
sensitivity
3) Loss aversion
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51. Implications of Prospect Theory
Adoption is often very slow
Especially, if consumer has to give something up (endowment
effect)
Developers’ curse
Employees often use new product and integrate new features
into their offering (increases “value” of feature) as compared
to consumers who haven’t used product
Results in a 9x difference in perceived value of feature
Some example launch strategies
Eliminate the old (US versus Canadian 1$ coin)
10x improvement to make the benefit overwhelming
Seek out new to category customers (not endowed with
existing features), Kodak 10$ camera
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52. Launching and Diffusing Innovative Offerings
To explain new offerings’ diffusion rates, it can be informative to classify
consumers into groups, according to their propensity to adopt new
products and which persuasive arguments will prompt them to adopt
According to Geoffrey Moore, the adoption lifecycle of an innovative
offering suggests five groups of potential users:
Innovators are the first to adopt, often before the new offering even is
officially launched
Early adopters see the benefits of the new technology and are willing to adopt
it after just a few references
The early majority consists of much more pragmatic consumers, who need to
be convinced that the new product really works
Both of the last two groups, late majority and laggards, also want more
evidence, but they are especially hard to persuade
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53. Adapted from Moore, G.A. (2006), Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and
Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, 1st rev. ed., (New
York: Collins Business Essentials)
Innovators
First to adopt a
new offering;
actively seek
new
technologies
Early Adopters
Perceive the
benefits of the
new technology
and are willing
to buy with just
a few references
Early Majority
More pragmatic,
such that they
must be
convinced that
the new product
really works
Late Majority
Demands even
more evidence
of the product’s
functionality
and are harder
to persuade
Laggards
Need the most evidence
to persuade
Categories of
Product
Adopters
Chasm
Gap
between
early
adopters
and early
majority
Crossing the Chasm
New product launches fail
if the firm has not
prepared to sell to early
majority customers by the
time it runs out of early
adopters.
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54. Failing to “Cross The Chasm” is Common
Barrier to Success
Firm takes on more visionaries than it can handle
Cannot take on more custom projects, but no pragmatists
ready to buy
Early market becomes saturated, and revenue growth tapers
off or declines
Key personnel become disillusioned
Venture capital well begins to run dry
Marketing strategies that lead to success in selling to
visionaries actually hinder success in selling to pragmatists
The adoption lifecycle approach clearly and systematically
integrates aspects of both MP#1 and MP#2
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Innovation Strategy
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55. 1. The Bowling Alley:
New product gains acceptance from niches and extends through a
common platform
Each niche requires expertise in that vertical market
Market coverage propagates to neighbors and extends references
Focuses marketing resources
2. The Tornado:
Period of mass-market adoption when the general marketplace
switches over to the new technology
Driven by application that provides compelling benefits to mass
market: the “killer app”
Requires strong operational excellence to keep up with demand
3. Main Street:
Market growth stabilizes
Focus on cross-selling and upgrading to existing customers
Strategy to Cross the Chasm and Beyond
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56. Product-Based Factors that Influence
Innovation Diffusion
Another long stream of research, starting with Everett
Rogers, shows that specific product characteristics can
capture 40–80 percent of the variation in the speed with
which offerings diffuse
Changing each of the following five factors can alter the rate
of product diffusion, all else being equal
1. Relative advantage
2. Compatibility
3. Complexity
4. Trialability
5. Observability
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57. Besides Psychology and People, “Product
Factors” Determine the Rate of Diffusion
1. Relative Advantage: degree to which an offering is
perceived as being better than the ideas it supersedes
Economic: cost, price
Status, prestige, etc.
Necessary but not sufficient (i.e., new keyboard)
2. Compatibility: degree to which an offering is perceived as
consistent with existing values and experiences
Often must break habits, perceptions, beliefs
Plastic wine corks, TiVO
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Diffusion: Roger's Five
Factors
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58. 49% to 87% of the Variance in Rate of
Adoption is Explained by 5 Factors
3. Complexity: degree to which an offering is perceived as relatively difficult
to understand/use
Education is key (online banking)
Speed of Google
4. Trialability: degree to which an offering may be experimented with on a
limited basis
Free samples, demo, test drive
Especially salient for high cost, time, risky products
5. Observability: degree to which the results of an offering are visible to
others
Especially salient for status products
Can be negative (parking by a “men’s club”)
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59. STP/BOR Strategies Should be Adapted
Based on 3Ps (Psych, People, Product)
Segmenting and Targeting Strategies
Focus on vertical markets, intra-segment communication, no takeaways,
large relative advantage (10x)
Low end and/or new markets for disruptive innovations
Target beachheads for bowling alley effect
Select segments where “5 factors” are best
Positioning Strategies
Make offering compatible to existing offering
Education and simplicity are key to messaging
Free samples, reduce risk, use warranty and trial periods
Enhance visibility of users, testimonials
Migration Strategies (Visionaries to Pragmatists)
How to persuade gate keepers
Building references and testimonials
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60. But, Remember That Being First is Not
a Guarantee of Success
65 year historical study on impact of market entry
Failure rate of pioneers is 47%
Pioneers are ultimate leaders in only 11% of categories (10 years later)
First mover advantage is trumped by followers who
are better. Best beats first.
Being a pioneer without the basis for sustainable
competitive advantage is a trap!
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61. What Company is This?
Quotes from Business
Publications/Newspapers in 1960
“World’s biggest chain of highway
restaurants; Pioneer in restaurant
franchising; Most strongly entrenched
actor and highest quality; Most fabulous
success story in restaurant chains”
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63. Mathematical model used to forecast the rate of
consumer adoption
nt = p Remaining
Potential
nt = number of adopters at time t (Sales)
p = “coefficient of innovation” (propensity to adopt independent of # of previous adopters)
q = “coefficient of imitation” (propensity to adopt as a function of number of adopters)
# Adopters = n0 + n1 + • • • + nt–1
Remaining Potential = Total Potential (N) – # Adopters
Bass Diffusion Model for New Product
Adoption Capture Multiple Factors (3Ps)
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q Adopter Proportion Remaining Potential
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Innovation Effect Imitation Effect
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65. Use historical data
Use analogous products
Estimating the Parameters of the
Bass Model
Innovation Imitation
Product/ parameter parameter
Technology (p) (q)
B&W TV 0.065 0.335
Color TV 0.021 0.583
Room Air conditioner 0.010 0.454
Clothes dryers 0.073 0.389
Ultrasound Imaging 0.003 0.506
CD Player 0.028 0.368
Cellular telephones 0.005 0.506
Microwave Oven 0.018 0.337
Hybrid corn 0.000 0.798
Home PC 0.003 0.253
Van den Bulte and Stremersch (2004) suggests an average value
of 0.03 for p and an average value of 0.42 for q
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66. Example: Forecasting DirecTV
Used Bass Diffusion model
Market size estimate from customer survey
Diffusion parameters estimated from managerial
judgments and analogous products (cable TV)
Results:
Five year forecasts made 3 years before launch
were, on average, -16% below actual
Forecast justified earlier launch of a satellite for
expanded transmission capability
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67. Agenda
Introduction
Offering and Innovation Strategies
Developing Innovative Offerings
Repositioning and Disruptive Innovations
Conjoint Analysis
Launching and Diffusing Innovation Strategies
Psychological, People, and Products Factors
Bass Diffusion Model
Managing Offering-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantages
Steps to Building Offering Equity
Research Approaches to Designing and Launching New Offerings
Summary
Takeaways
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68. Steps to Building Offering Equity
Building offering equity involves three main steps
1. The firm must develop an offering or offering portfolio that provides
customers with the largest relative advantage among all competitors
in the market
2. Second, in line with MP#1, offering equity requires a firm to segment,
target, and position that new offering in a way that accounts for both
people- and product-based factors
3. Third, and associated with MP#2, firms need to manage the customer
migrations from innovators and early adopters to early majority
stages
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69. Research Approaches for Designing and
Launching New Offerings
Qualitative techniques such as observation, focus groups, and
customer interviews are effective early in the development
process; they can reveal some important needs that may be
just emerging or that are unknown to the firm
Then to avoid the risks associated with the high failure rate
of new offerings, firms can use different techniques to
improve their decision making and avoid unsuccessful
launches, such as conjoint analysis
The Bass model captures many of the people- and product-
based factors, but it also integrates pricing and advertising
levels to predict adoption rates
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70. Agenda
Introduction
Offering and Innovation Strategies
Developing Innovative Offerings
Repositioning and Disruptive Innovations
Conjoint Analysis
Launching and Diffusing Innovation Strategies
Psychological, People, and Products Factors
Bass Diffusion Model
Managing Offering-Based Sustainable Competitive Advantages
Steps to Building Offering Equity
Research Approaches to Designing and Launching New Offerings
Takeaways
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71. Takeaways
Most firms rank innovation as a top strategic priority. Innovation involves
more than new technologies or products; it can reflect changes in
business processes or go-to-market strategies
Firms can innovate in four primary ways: changing their offering,
changing who the customer is, changing how they sell to customers, or
changing where they sell
Offering equity captures the core value that the customer obtains from a
new offering, absent any brand or relationship equity
A first-mover advantage is often short-lived, so firms must continually
develop new offerings to build their SCA, in terms of offering equity
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72. Takeaways
New and innovative offerings increase firm value by providing more
value to customers (through enhanced performance or better
performance for the price), motivating customers to switch, expanding
customers and markets, and establishing a brand image as a leading,
innovative company
A stage-gate development process improves the speed of product
development, the success likelihood, and the development costs
Two strategies for developing an innovative offering are repositioning
strategies (i.e., Blue Ocean) and technology-based strategies
People-based factors influence innovation diffusion, according to the
adoption lifecycle, which describes differences in people’s propensity to
adopt new products (innovators, early adopters, early majority, late
majority, and laggards). Firms must bridge the chasm between early
adopters and the early majority to succeed
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73. Takeaways
Product-based factors influence innovation diffusion. Marketers need to
evaluate the relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and
observability of new offerings, then develop ways to leverage them to
encourage adoption
Three key steps to building offering equity are developing an offering
portfolio that provides customers with the best relative advantage among
competitors; segmenting, targeting, and positioning the new offering to
account for people- and product-based factors to speed up diffusion; and
managing customer migration from innovators and early adopters to
early majority stages
Conjoint analysis can facilitate the design and launch of new offerings by
helping managers define the optimal product, according to the value
assigned to various product attributes by consumers. Bass models also
are helpful, because they use historical data related to the coefficients of
innovation and imitation to predict adoption rates
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74. Readings
12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate (great framework for
thinking of many different ways to innovate in a company)
Blue Ocean Strategy (popular way to think about incremental versus
market creating strategies, lots of examples)
Note on Innovation Diffusion: Roger's Five Factors (discusses both
people- and product-based factors that determine a new offering’s
acceptance/diffusion)
Marketing Strategy Book: Chapter 6
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