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PPU085 Product planning - needs and opportunities lp2 HT19 (7.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Industrial and Materials Science

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Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives:

• Explain what is meant by a product's (market) lifecycle and its implications for companies product planning
• Explain the role, tasks organization and deliverables of product planning
• Describe and use established tools for carrying out an analysis of societal and market trends, and conclude on the business implications of the analysis
• Explain what is meant by market segmentation and describe aspects by which a market can be segmented.
• Carry out a segmentation of the market for a defined product (area)
• Describe what a business model is and how it can be document in a business model canvas
• Explain and differentiate between the meaning of key terms such as customer/user/consumer, needs/customer/user or engineering requirements etc.-
• Explain why different requirements are more or less accessible using, for example the Kano model and the Iceberg phenomenon as bases
• Explain the differences between exploratory and confirmatory research in the early phases of product development
• Explain what is meant by primary research and exemplify the information sources that can be used
• Explain what is meant by secondary research and exemplify the information sources that can be used
• Relate different types of research methods/tools to different market research purposes/objectives
• Choose between and combine primary and secondary sources in customer needs mapping
• Plan and execute a study for eliciting customer/user needs and requirements for a technical product, including to make a purposeful choice between different methods and tools for eliciting, analysing, communicating and documenting customer needs and requirements
• Describe the principles of and apply tools for analysing qualitative and quantitative (market and customer needs) data respectively
• Identify product opportunities that derive from new technologies and services, and latent needs
• Compile information about and assess the state-of-the-art in a particular technological domain and/or application area
• -Describe and analyse a novel technological idea as regards e.g. freedom to operate, novelty, competition and potential application areas through the use of patent databases, benchmarking and other means
• Assess technology readiness and use that to develop strategic product and technology development plans
• Develop a mission statement for a particular product development project
• Account for how product planning is carried out in selected corporate contexts
• Cooperate in a group with international members-
• Communicate orally and in writing with different groups in English

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