The Marketing School/New Product Development Masterclass: From Concept to Market

New Product Development Masterclass: From Concept to Market

  • Course
  • 20 Lessons

Why Enroll Directly via The Marketing School (TMS)?

While our foundational lectures are available on third-party marketplaces, the premium TMS Corporate Edition is built specifically for real-world implementation. When you enroll directly on our platform, you don't just watch videos, you unlock our exclusive, downloadable NPD & PLC Strategic Blueprint Workbook, complete with interactive step-by-step evaluation gates, financial calculation models, and our proprietary Product Viability Index (PVI) Scoring Rubric. This clinical scorecard transforms your product ideation from creative guesswork into a data-backed, quantitative decision matrix, allowing you to stress-test your ideas before risking a single dollar of capital. Plus, direct access to instructor feedback ensures your frameworks are built for definitive market success.

Master the 8 stages of product innovation, mitigate launch risks, and strategically manage growth using Product Life Cycle (PLC) frameworks

Course Description

Over 80% of new products fail in their first year. Will yours be one of them?

Innovation is the lifeblood of business, yet most product launches fail. It’s rarely because the initial idea was bad it’s because the creator relied on guesswork instead of a validated, systematic framework. In a fiercely competitive market, you cannot afford to gamble with your capital or your time.

Welcome to New Product Development Masterclass, a definitive, system-driven course designed to turn raw ideas into profitable, market-ready realities.

This course strips away the chaos of innovation and replaces it with a rigorous, repeatable blueprint. We will journey deep into the 8 critical stages of New Product Development (NPD), ensuring you know exactly how to filter out weak concepts early and scale winning ideas efficiently.

But getting a product to market is only half the battle. To build an enduring brand, you must know how to navigate the market long after the launch. That is why this course features a comprehensive deep dive into the Product Life Cycle (PLC). You will discover how to identify various PLC patterns and execute precise marketing strategies as your product moves from introduction and rapid growth to maturity and inevitable decline.

 What You Will Master in This Course:

  • The Full 8-Stage NPD Blueprint: Move systematically from Idea Generation and Screening to Concept Development, Marketing Strategy, Business Analysis, Product Development, Test Marketing, and Commercialization.

  • Risk Mitigation Systems: Learn how to kill unviable concepts on paper before spending thousands on manufacturing or coding.

  • Product Life Cycle (PLC) Management: Master the strategic shifts required in your pricing, promotion, and distribution as your product matures.

  • Decoding PLC Patterns: Look beyond the standard bell curve. Understand alternative life cycle shapes (like fad, fashion, and style cycles) to accurately forecast your product's longevity.

Who Is This Course For?

  • Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders who want to launch a new physical or digital product with a scientifically backed go-to-market strategy.

  • Product Managers & Innovators looking to upgrade their corporate development workflows and build highly predictable product pipelines.

  • Marketers & Business Strategists wanting to master long-term product portfolio management and life cycle optimization.

Stop leaving your product's future to chance. Turn your ideas into a structured, undeniable system for commercial success.

Enroll today, master the frameworks of innovation, and build products that last!

 See you in the course!

 Dr Jan

Contents

New Product Development

In this section you we will cover all the crucial stages in the development of a new product.

NPD Introduction Welcome_Resized.mp4
Lecture 1_Briefing.mp4
Lecture 2_Way to Obtain New Product.mp4
Lecture 3_Definition of New Product.mp4
Lecture 4_New Product Development_Stages.mp4
Lecture 5_Idea Generation_Stage1.mp4
Lecture 6_Idea Generation_Crowdsourcing_Casestudy.mp4
Lecture 7_Idea Screening_Stage 2.mp4
Lecture 8_Concept Development_Testing_Stage 3.mp4
Lecture 9_Market Strategy Development_Stage 4.mp4
Lecture 10_Business Analysis_Stage 5.mp4
Lecture 11_Product Development_Stage 6.mp4
Lecture 12_Test Marketing_Stage 7.mp4
Lecture 13_Commercialization_Stage 8.mp4
Lecture 14_NPD_Success Factors.mp4

Product Life Cycle

This section will cover PLC and the Patterns of PLC

Lecture 15_Product Life Cycle.mp4
Lecture 16_PLC patternsl.mp4
Your Assignment_New Product Development.mp4

Downloadable Resources

NPD_PLC_Strategic_Blueprint_Workbook.pdf
Product_Viability_Index_(PVI)_Scoring_Rubric_NPD_Self_Evaluation.pdf