Chapter No # 03 Product Innovation Charter

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Chapter No # 03

Opportunity Identification and


Selection: Strategic Planning for New
Products
Why Have Strategic Planning
Team guidance just as corporate or strategic business units (SBUs)
guidance, comes partly in the form of strategy.
A Strategy for a “company within a company”
The group of people who lead the development of a new product act as a
company within a company. They are led by a group leader, a team
manager, or a project manager. For these people, a new product strategy
does several things. It charts the group’s direction. Where it must go,
and where it must not go. It also tells the group its goals and objective
and provides some rules of the road.
Product Innovation Charter
All the inputs from the corporate mission and platform planning are
potentially used in the development of a company’s new product
strategy. We advocate a special name for this strategy: The product
innovation charter (PIC). The PIC can be thought of as a kind of mission
statement, but applied at a more micro level within the firm and adapted
to new product activities.
PIC should be in writing and given to all participants.
Product Innovation Charter
Contents of a Product Innovation Charter

 Background
 Focus
 Goals/Objectives
 Guidelines
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Background Section of the PIC
This section of PIC answers the question: Why did we develop this
strategy? Purpose of the project, a recap of the situational analysis.
Product Innovation Charter
The Arena (Area of Focus) Section of the PIC
Core competencies provide an excellent place to start the search for
charter arena definition. Focus is generally achieved by four types of
strength or leverage capabilities: technology, product experience,
customer franchise, and end user experience.
Firms have realized that the best option is the balanced or dual-driven
strategy.
Technology Drivers
Market Drivers
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Goals and Objective Section of the PIC
Anyone working on product innovation ought to know the purpose
because work can change in so many ways if the purpose changes. The
PIC uses the standard definition that goals are long-range, general
direction of movement, whereas objectives are short-term, specific
measures of accomplishment.
Both goals and objectives are of three types:
 Profit
 Growth
 Market Status
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Specific Guidelines Section of the PIC
This section provides the guidelines and rules of the road. They may be
managerially imposed, or consensus thinking developed by team
members. Research shows what firms put into this section:
• Degree of innovation
• Timing
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Specific Guidelines Section of the PIC
• Degree of innovation
The extent of innovation management wants from a particular group.
 First-to-market
 Adaptive product
 Imitation
Product Innovation Charter
Specific Guidelines Section of the PIC
• Timing
This category of guidelines has four options:
 First
 Quick Second
 Slower
 Late
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How to Prepare a Product Innovation Charter
The process of developing a PIC lies in its contents:
First, we are always looking for opportunities, inside the firm or outside
it.
Second, we have to evaluate, rate, and rank them.
Third, we simply begin filling out the PIC form – focus, goals, and
guidelines.

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