Title :
Product Management Strategies for a Technology Product Market
Author :
Ishioka, Masaru ; Yasuda, Kazuhiko
Author_Institution :
Fukushima Univ., Fukushima
Abstract :
In the current major process of new product development, most of the products are developed to satisfy the customer´s expectations of product performance and functions. Also, it is still the most effective basic concept to develop the new products. But, in the recent fast moving market trend, organizations are facing to the difficulties of following the customer expectations. In this paper, from the view of strategic product development, the new concept with three product related strategic competitive factors such as technology, feature, and product style is introduced. This new competitive concept brings to have more selections to compete in the market. By managing the three factors, organizations are able to define more suitable competitive method in the technology product market. In this research, first, conceptually define the several strategic new product management concepts which are suitable for the current technology product market by using introduced three factors. Then, as the case study, digital camera industry is selected. The developed strategy concept and three factor analysis is applied to this sample market. The major products in the market are characterized by the three factor analysis and defined the strategic competitive positioning.
Keywords :
customer satisfaction; organisational aspects; product development; customer satisfaction; digital camera industry; organization aspects; product development; product management strategy; product market; three factor analysis; Digital cameras; Industrial economics; Manufacturing; Product development; Production; Symbiosis; Technology management; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering and Technology, Portland International Center for
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-8908-4315-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-8908-4315-1
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2007.4349517