Driving a New Product to Market

The Problem

Product delays of more than two years plagued this one-product company embarked on the task of developing a complete, multi-product line of mainframe access and network management solutions for large-scale e-businesses. The company had fallen more than two years behind schedule.

Solution

KnowledgePoint Marketing immediately created a cross-functional launch team to assemble and identify what was causing the product development delays. Market requirements and a product release plan had not been properly identified. As a result, it was difficult for engineering and support to determine how to set priorities for correcting problems identified during beta testing. The beta test program had not been fully defined, and not enough units were out in the field for engineering to have confidence that all the problems were being uncovered in real-use situations.