Product+Planning-Team+5


 * The ultimate guide to the perfect strike**

Customers: What input do you need from customers? How will you get this input?
 * The Product Planning Process for a BaseBall**
 * Input:**
 * Input:**

Is the new product better then the orignial ball .Does it give more accuracy strike .By doing survey that are online or in the store where our old ball are sale and by posting the new product online for customer can comment if they like or dislike the new product.By talking to the baseball player from all league and let them try our ball out. . Sales: What input do you need from sales? How can input from sales help in the process?

Does this new innovation product satisfy the customers needs another that they want buy it again and again. The input from sale can develop idea if this product is a money maker. The sales also help on if we need to inprove the product if the price start dropping.We get this information by have a test driver.For example: a four month or two ,putting the produtt on the market and study the sales and store, see if the same customer continue to come back for more.

Engineering: What input do you need from engineering? Why does input from engineers matter?

We need to gather information about the science and math behind making this product. Is this product hand made or machine made.Engineer is important to this process because it is the key in making our product.

Tech Support: What input do you need from tech support? How can input from tech support help in the process?

I think what we need from the tech people is how can we get this product to the customer without any problem. Can we do a online store or just a store or both. Do we need website for this one product. Tech help us in the options in where we can place our items.

Marketing: What input do you need from marketing? Why is input from marketing important? What areas of baseball should we market this product in, big , in between ,little league?Should we have other market our product or ourselves .Is our product even market s able ?We need input on where to market our item.I think it important because we need to get our product out their without making little mistake like marketing in the wrong place or marketing to wrong people.

Competition: Who is your competition? What are your strengths (over that of the competitors)? TThe competion is Decker ,Baseball Warehouse,Lousiville Slugger, Rawlings.The competition does not have this need innovation product.

Idea A: `What is your first innovative idea to improve your sports ball? A balls that has guides to guided a pitcher on if he or she want to throw a pefect curve or knuckle etc.
 * Product Ideas:**

Idea B: What is your second innovative idea to improve your sports ball? Ball that look like a tennis ball and diffrent colors.

What innovative idea did you decide on? Why? Give a detailed description of your idea and why you chose it. How will your improvement revolutionize the sport?
 * Approved Product:**

I decide to used the guide ball, it was one of our best idea. The guide is a ball that have lines they show you where to put your hand on if you want to do throw a curve ball and knuckle ball .Give a pitcher the pefect accuracy on the type of pitch .I think it different but a great idea.There well be less balls and more strike and hits in the game because every pitches is pefect.

Marketing: How will you market the product to consumers? Include an advertisement here By saying this ball is pefect ball for any pitches. .

Conclusion: Give a detailed description of how your team approached the planning process, how you conducted your research and what you discovered. What did you learn through this process? What kinds of issues arose for your team? Do those same issues arise for companies going through this process? What other issues and opportunities might arise for companies seeking to improve existing products or innovate new ones?

We first approach this process by figure what two product do we want to do. By looking online we figure out ideas that we did not see online.Then we figure out which idea was best.We learn that the process of getting the idea to the paper and to the store is chance process.Trouble finding the information and not another group memeber helping out .I believe companies in accounter the same problems.I think that they might go through problem with findining if their product can sale.Or do they have another information from their input to continue on.Some time their new innvoatIon product might be already invented so they have to change it little bit.The companies have many ways or opportunities they can promotion their product like ads and commercial etc.

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