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    Product Management

    Product management is crucial to maintaining the lifecycle of a product within a business’s product offerings.  It deals with the planning, marketing, forecasting and maintenance of a product or multiple products at each stage of the product lifecycle. One of the goals of product management is to reduce development and marketing costs all the while still maximizing profit, sales, and revenue. A product manager is primarily responsible for analyzing market conditions and defining important features of a product/service that will eventually be marketed to potential customers. The job description varies depending on the organizational structure of the company, however, two common roles within product management are product development and product marketing. These roles work together in order to maximize sales revenue and profit margins. Product management often bridges gaps between different teams within a company, for example, the engineering team that designs the products and the commercial team that will design the value proposition. 

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    The Product Lifecycle

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    The product lifecycle is an analysis that identifies common stages in the life of products or services. This may include introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

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    Principals of Marketing: Products

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    Open Innovation

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    Business Plan

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    Marketing Mix Innovations Identified

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    A failure product now a success

    When Apple stores were launch in 2001, many questioned their prospects and Business Week published an article titled, 'Sorry steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work. Fast forward five years, and Apple was celebrating the launch of its spectacular new manhattan show case store. With almost 275 locations by the ends of 2009, net

    Developing a Business Plan Draft

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    Key Fob connected to a loyalty Program

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    Health Care: Strategic Management

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    New Product Pricing Strategies

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    Market Segmentation with Venn Diagrams

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    Advertising Using the AIDA Approach

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    Product Postioning & Corporate Strategy.

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    Healthcare and Product-Market Expansion Grid

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    NRV and Physical Units Method of Allocation

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    Total cost function and the production line

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    The New Coke Brand Failure

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    Pepsi print advertisement analysis

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    Product Concept Evaluation

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    Product Strategy: New Products

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    Strategic Marketing of Pepsi

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    Vendor Management

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    P & G Pet Food Launch in Mexico

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    Herrestad Company Special order for product C

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    Comparison of activity based and conventional product costs

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    Discussion

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    Manufacturing New Technologies

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    Product Management: Black and Decker

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