Product Strategy and Management, 2nd edition

Published by Financial Times Press (April 19, 2007) © 2007

  • Michael Baker University of Strathclyde
  • Susan Hart University of Strathclyde
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Product Strategy and Management

offers a holistic discussion and explanation of this subject area and shows why it is fundamental to a firm's competitiveness and its ultimate survival. It covers the entire product life cycle from new product development to elimination.

This book is geared to students studying product management/product development at advanced undergraduate, MBA or postgraduate levels. It is also suitable for non-business school programmes - e.g., engineering, who offer elective courses on product strategy. It has also proved to be a useful tool for professionals in their day-to-day management and strategising of products.

This is a book that attempts to set the act of product strategy and new product development in a wider framework of strategic thinking and management theories. It has an easy to access style which makes it a good choice for students meeting such concepts for the first time.

Table of contents

  • Part I The theoretical foundations
  • Chapter 1 Competition and product strategy
  • Chapter 2 The product in theory and practice
  • Chapter 3 Buyer behaviour
  • Chapter 4 The product life cycle in theory and practice
  • Chapter 5 Product portfolios
  • Part II New product development
  • Chapter 6 The importance, nature and management of the new product development process
  • Chapter 7 New product strategy
  • Chapter 8 Idea management for new product development
  • Chapter 9 Screening new product ideas
  • Chapter 10 Concept development and testing
  • Chapter 11 Business analysis
  • Chapter 12 Product testing
  • Part III Product management
  • Chapter 13 Commercialization: test marketing and launching the new product
  • Chapter 14 Managing growth
  • Chapter 15 Managing the mature product
  • Part IV Product elimination
  • Chapter 16 Controlling the product line: an overview of the deletion decision
  • Chapter 17 Reaching the decision to delete a product
  • Chapter 18 Implementing the deletion decision
  • Chapter 19 Reprise

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