
Explore value concepts, SWOT, mission, and vision, apply the four p's to launching new products, and examine lifetime value with a healthcare example for an integrated marketing and business plan.
Explore marketing as value creation and delivery, and the Pragmatic Institute framework guiding strategic and tactical activities across markets and products, including market definition, pricing, personas, and customer retention.
Explore the four p's of marketing—the product, price, promotion, and place—and how they shape customer focus, differentiation, and successful product launches.
Define value in business as benefits divided by cost, emphasizing perceived value and patient-centric care. In health care, balance quality, safety, and patient experience against cost, guided by value disciplines.
Explore customer lifetime value and the lifetime value of a loyal customer as drivers of trust and repeat purchases, showing retention beats single transactions.
Show how a million-dollar capital equipment sale becomes a ten-million-dollar customer lifetime value through learn and enjoy, expand and refresh, upgrades, and trade in and renew cycles with service contracts.
Explore the SWOT diagram to assess internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats, and learn to build strategies that align with goals while minimizing biases.
Link strategy to mission and vision by aligning objectives, strategies, and activities toward a true north. Draft personal and corporate mission statements to clarify purpose and how we serve customers.
Apply the consensus technique to vote on strategies with criteria, use an affinity diagram, and employ implementation, market attractiveness, and portfolio management grids (BCG/GE) to decide.
Use a voting technique with red sticky dots on ideas charted on a wall to visualize group priorities, rapidly coalescing what the team deems most important for strategy.
The consensus technique warns against the highest paid person opinion and urges inclusive voices in strategic planning, using the 12 Angry Men example to ensure group-wide consensus.
Affinity diagrams cluster diverse ideas into themes, helping teams identify the most important health care problems and build strategic plans by focusing on the patient experience.
Learn to plot ideas on an ease of implementation grid, using left-right ease and low-high impact axes, color-coded in green, yellow, and red to prioritize high-impact, easy projects.
The market attractiveness grid helps evaluate opportunities by market attractiveness and competitive position, factoring profitability, growth, and macro trends. Plot opportunities to prioritize high-attractiveness targets and divest low-potential, weak-position ideas.
Discover the BCG matrix for portfolio management, classifying products into stars, opportunities, cash cows, and dogs; learn to move cash from cash cows to growth areas and prune underperformers.
Map your health care innovations on a two-axis grid of value creation and value capturing to balance functionality with minimal user behavioral change, highlighting the home run quadrant.
The instructor congratulates you on completing the course, notes its value, and invites you to continue applying the tools and skills learned, wishing you future success.
Launching a new product requires more than great engineering—it requires a marketing strategy that clearly defines value, chooses the right customers, and guides smart decision-making. This course gives you a practical framework built entirely around tools I personally used while designing and launching new products in the healthcare technology market.
You’ll start with the foundations of marketing strategy: how value is created, how the 4Ps work together, and how mission, vision, and SWOT analysis shape the direction of a new product. From there, you’ll learn the analysis and decision tools that have helped teams reduce uncertainty, improve clarity, and choose the right strategy.
Every tool in this course has been used in real product launches. Some are industry standards that I refined over time to make them more effective in fast-moving technical environments. Others are tools I created myself—simple, visual methods that helped me track progress, evaluate ideas, and execute complex product plans flawlessly. These tools supported my career progression from engineering, to engineering management, to business development, and ultimately to Vice President of Marketing at Philips Healthcare, one of the most respected companies in the industry. They work because they were built and tested in the real world.
You’ll apply Affinity Diagrams, Market Attractiveness Grids, Innovation/Value Grids, Ease of Implementation Grids, and more—always with clear explanations and real examples from both healthcare and non-healthcare settings.
Whether you are an engineer, product manager, or entrepreneur, this course provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap for designing and launching successful products. If you want to build smarter product strategies—and learn the tools used in real product launches—this course will guide you from concept to execution.