Team+9+Product+Plan

=Team 9- Mr. Toby Otorubio and Mr. Dallas Hansford=

Customers: The puck needs to move alot faster, that would lead to better scoring and would eventuallty lead to better players.
Customers also want easier scoring in the game of hockey.

Sales: in order to pull more sales the puck should have a symbol or the customers faviorte team, major or minior league. Custmizing should cost a 10%mark up from original all black puck.

Engineering: matericals that the new puck is coming from should move at least twice as fast as the original pucks that were made from vulcanized rubber.
====Tech support: tech support needs to put in a homing beacon inside the hocky puck, by and homing beacons the games would have higher scoring and would make the goalies job alot more diffecult. Also delerving should should be sold online and major sports venues.====

Product Ideas:
Idea A: Change the material to give the puck more velocity on the ice to satisfiy the customers need of increased speed.

Idea B: Install a homing beacon in the puck for increased scoring precision to satisfy the customers need of easier scoring.

Approved Product:
The installation of a homing beacon will revolutionize the sport of hockey by giving games increased scoring. the beacon in the puck will be directed to the hockey goal, in turn if a player get the punk any where near the goal they will score. the increased scoring of hockey games will attract more viewer to in to games.

Marketing:
We will get pro hockey players to promote the puck and let them test the new product in public places.



Conclusion:
Our team began the project by asking the customers what they wanted and getting input from sales, engineering, tech support, and marketing. After getting all the input we began coming up with product ideas, we chose the most innovative idea and went with it. We learned the process of product planning and you must combine all of the steps. a problem our team ran into is choosing the innovative idea. Improving on existing products can improve your sales and increase your profit.