Resumen de La Curva en S como Herramienta para la Medición de los Ciclos de Vida de Productos

Andrés F. Avalos, Diana P. Giraldo, Santiago Quintero, Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa, Farid Bernardo Cortés Correa, Sergio Aguilar

• The aim of this article was to carry out a study of the life cycles of three products of Colombian companies; based on a logistic model of population growth as a life cycles measurement tool. We found that the products life cycles have a similar behavior to the population growth, according to an S curve. The inflection points of the curves were obtained by a nonlinear regression. These points might be used as a tool for strategic decision making in products, in terms of identifying key instants for launching technological innovations, investments and execute marketing strategies.