Product+Planning-Team+3

Customers: What input do you need from customers? How will you get this input?
 * The Product Planning Process for a Volleyball**
 * Input:**
 * Their opinion by having surveys and asking around.

Sales: What input do you need from sales? How can input from sales help in the process?
 * That the volleyball ball would last longer and not tore up pretty quick. You could rise the price on the product and their would be more of profit because the customer will know that it's worth their money knowing that the ball wouldnt' just last a year or so.

Engineering: What input do you need from engineering? Why does input from engineers matter?
 * They would question us about finding a new way to make a new evolutionary material that is reliable. At the moment we have not discover a new material to help the situation but the lab test are showing that there is a possible outcome.

Tech Support: What input do you need from engineering? Why does input from engineers matter?
 * There is a business tech support which handle the engineering system and also there is customers tech support which would provide necessary information about the product.

Marketing: What input do you need from marketing? Why is input from marketing important?
 * Marketing comes in many ways for example distributing free samples of the product as well as going to different location and letting the customer try it out or even making videos that promtes the product on how it is reliable and uploading them to web.

Competition: Who is your competition? What are your strengths (over that of the competitors)? Adidas, Nike, Jansport, Mikasa.

Idea A: What is your first innovative idea to improve your sports ball?
 * Product Ideas:**
 * The ball will glow in the dark, and every time it gets hit, it would change colors.

Idea B: What is your second innovative idea to improve your sports ball?
 * Our other idea to increase the product is to make it lighter therefore increasing the velocity making the volleyball travel at a faster rate. And making the volleyball last much longer then it does. it wouldn't tear up as easily.

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? Idea B is the better choice. It's improving the quality of the ball, as well as the game. Making the game more enjoyable as well as increasing the speed of the game. Puts more pressure to the players, making it more competitive. Our sales would increase because we would be the firsts to have a modified ball as to how the customers would want. Marketing: How will you market the product to consumers? Include an advertisement here.
 * Approved Product:**

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 all approached this project by each having a job. We each had to find the information and get it to each other to put it all togehter, We worked as a team, two people focused on part a, while the other two focused on part b. Whoever finished first got to work on the ad. We learned that agreeing on ideas was not as easy as we thought. Having four different brains made it a little harder to compromise on specific stuff. Day one we were all off task, no one didnt know excatly what to do. Communication was one of the issues we had to overcome. Once we started communicating we came as a happy family and got the job done (: