Method and apparatus for product management
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJulie Drew, Bin Zhang, Shailendra Jain
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Abstract
A method for product portfolio analysis includes selecting a set of solution points along a curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio and performing a heuristic between an adjacent pair of solution points that approximates the curve between the adjacent pair of solution points. An apparatus that can perform the product portfolio analysis is also described.
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A method for product portfolio management, comprising:
- selecting a set of solution points along a curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio;
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- using a heuristic between an adjacent pair of solution points that approximates the curve between the adjacent pair of solution points.
An apparatus for product management, comprising:
- means for selecting a sparse sequence of solution points along a curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio;
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- means for using a heuristic between an adjacent pair of solution points that approximates the curve between the adjacent pair of solution points.
A method for managing a product portfolio, comprising:
- generating a curve of revenue coverage versus number of products in a given product portfolio;
- selecting a sequence of optimal solution points along the curve;
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- using a heuristic between at least one pair of adjacent optimal solution points in order to approximate the curve between the pair of adjacent optimal solution points.
Application instructions on a computer-usable medium where the instructions, when executed, effect the selection of products:
- selecting a set of solution points along a curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio;
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- using a heuristic between an adjacent pair of solution points that approximates the curve between the adjacent pair of solution points.
A method for product portfolio analysis, comprising:
- selecting a set of optimal solution points along a curve of revenue as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio;
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- performing an approximation between an adjacent pair of optimal solution points that approximates the curve of revenue as a function of the number of products in the product portfolio, the approximation includes:
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- wherein R(O1) is a revenue for a first subset of orders, R(O2) is a revenue for a second subset of orders, |C1| is the number of products in the first subset of orders, |C2| is the number of products in the second subset of orders and λ is a penalty multiplier.
A method for product portfolio management, comprising:
- adding products and orders to an empty subset until a plurality of basic subset pairs are generated;
- selecting a set of optimal solution points using the plurality of basic subset pairs;
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- using a heuristic between an adjacent pair of the optimal solution points that approximates an optimal curve of order benefit as a function of the number of products in a product portfolio between the adjacent pair of solution points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.