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Avoiding the Top 7 MistakesIn Bringing NewProducts to Market
By Steve Tennant
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Meet Alex
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Also known as…
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Ms. Product Manager
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Alex lives in…
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and went to school at…
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She drives a…
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and has been asked to bring a new …
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Can she avoid common new software product …
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Today, 50-95% of new products
fail.
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Why do new products fail?
Inadequate Market Analysis
Product Problems or Defects
Lack of Effective Marketing Effort
Higher Costs Than Anticipated
Competitive Strength or Reaction
Poor Timing of Introduction
Technical or Production Problems
All Other Causes
10% 20% 30% 50%40%0%Percentage of Companies Citing (n=233)
Source: Conference Board as cited by R.G. Cooper, Winning at New Products
Primary Causes of Product Failure
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The reasons products fail can be addressed.
The reasons products fail
can be addressed
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To do so requires a paradigm shift that challenges many of your current beliefs.
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These Flawed Beliefs Help Cause “Train Wrecks”
1. “We need to complete the product before I can show it or talk to customers.”
2. “Our (business and/or compensation) plan says we must ship a new product in six months.”
3. “Once we’re done building, we’ll give it to sales…”4. “We’re opportunistic. If we find one customer who
wants something, we’ll build it.”5. “The answers to our most important questions can be
found from inside our four walls, or on the Internet.”
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Alex began to wonder, what can I do to
make my new product…
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that question?
How would you help Alex answer
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Before we build a better mousetrap, we need to find out if there are any
mice out there.”- Yogi Berra
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Tip 1 Clarify your target market
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Tip 2 Draft the buyer personas:
titles, roles, goals, top 2-3 problems
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Tip 3Validate the problem, roles, goals
and your prototype with 20-30 prospective customers
What’s frustrating about doing Job X?
Our new employees run screaming they hate it so much.
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Sample Interview Questions
• What are your top 3 goals? Challenges?• Typical day in your life?• How do you solve this problem today?• Who would you trust for advice?• How would you want to buy it?• What would you expect to pay?• What services would come with it?• If you had three choices in front of you, what criteria
would you use to evaluate them?• What did you expect to talk about that we haven’t?
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Tip 4Perform a market sizing, market analysis and competitive analysis
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Tip 5Use a new product process
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Tip 6Prove with early adopter
customers before launching
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Tip 7Develop a realistic marketing plan
and customer-centric message
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Tip 8Use a Proven Sales Model and
Enable Sales With What They Need to Win
Transactional Selling
ConsultativeSelling
EnterpriseSelling
Unprofitable:You lose
Poor service:You lose
Investment in each transaction by Your Company
Investment in each transactionby Customer
Recommended reading: Neil Rackham, Rethinking the Sales Force
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Now Alex knows…
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What her customers need
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…how her product
is different
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…what her sales force needs
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…and how to make her
new product
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Thanks to…
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Grow your technology company. Faster.
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