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Marketing Lesson 4
Developing Successful Marketing and Corporate Strategies
Question | Answer |
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Levels in Organization | Corporate Level, Business Unit, Functional Level |
Corporate Level and Business Unit Level Strategy | Business, Mission, Organizational Culture, Goals |
Functional Level Strategy | Informational Systems, Finance, Research and Development, Marketing, Manufacturing, Human Resources |
Mission | a statement of the organization's function in society, often identifying its customers, markets, products, and technologies |
Strategic Business Unit | subsidiary, division, or unit of an organization that markets a set of related offerings to a clearly defined group of customers |
Strategic Business unit level | managers set a more specific strategic direction for their businesses to exploit value-creating opportunities |
Functional Level | where groups of specialists actually create value for the organization |
core values | the fundamental, passionate, and enduring principles that guide its conduct over time |
Strategy | Experience while achieving its goals |
Organizational Culture | set of values, ideas, attitudes, and norms of behavior that is learned and shared among the members of an organization |
goals or objectives | statements of an accomplishment of a task to be achieved, often by a specific time |
Market share | the ratio of sales revenue of the firm to the to total sales revenue of all firms in the industry |
Competencies | an organizations special capabilities, including skills, technologies, and resources that distinguish it from other organizations and that provide value to its customers |
Competitive Advantage | a unique strength relative to competitors, often based on quality, time, cost, or innovation |
Bechmarking | discovering the best practices of organization in its own and other industries and imitating them |
Business Portfolio Analysis | analysing where your business is and where it should go. Market growth rate and market share. question marks, stars, cash cows, dogs |
Market product analysis | market penetration, market development, product development, diversification |
Marketing dashboard | the visual display on a single computer screen of the essential info related to achieving a marketing objective |
marketing metric | a measure of the quantitative value or trend of a marketing activity or result |
Marketing plan | a road map for the marketing activities of an organization for a specified future time period |
Market penetration | selling more of the same product to the same market |
Product Development | Selling a new product to current market |
Market Development | Selling a current product to a new market |
Diversification | Selling a new product to a new market |
Strategic Marketing process | an organization allocates its marketing mix resources to reach its target market |
Situation Analysis | taking stock of where the firm or product has been recently, where it is now, and where it is headed in terms of the organization's plans and the external factors and trends affecting it |
SWOT analysis | Strenghts: Build, Weaknesses: correct, Opportunities: exploit and Threats: avoid |
Points of difference | those characteristics of a product that make it superior to competitive substitutes |
Market segmentation | involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups, or segments, that 1. have common needs and 2. will respond similarly to a marketing action |
strategic marketing process | 1.SWOT analysis 2.Market-Product Focus and Goal Setting (set marketing and product goals, select target markets, find points of difference, position product) 3. Marketing Program 4.Evaluation phase |
Marketing Mix | Product, Price, Promotion, Place |
Strategic Marketing Process: | Obtaining resources, designing the marketing organization, Developing schedules |
marketing strategy | the means specified target market and a marketing program to reach it |
marketing tactics | detailed day to day operational decisions essential to the overall success of marketing strategies. |