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Marketing Chp. 2
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organization | A LEGAL ENTITY that consists of people who share a common mission |
| Strategy | An organization's LONG-TERM COURSE OF ACTION designed to deliver unique customer experience while achieving its goals |
| Organizational Purpose | WHY an organization exists, what problems it wishes to solve, and who it wants to be to every person it touches through its work. |
| objectives/goals | statement of an accomplishment of a task, often by a specific time. |
| Business | describes the clear, broad, underlying industry of a market sector of an organization's offering. |
| Marketing plan | a ROAD MAP for the marketing actions of an organization for a specified future time-period |
| Marketing Dashboard | VISUAL DISPLAY of the essential information related to achieving a marketing objective |
| Marketing Metric | A MEASURE of quantitative value or trend of a marketing action or result |
| Market segmentation | aggregating prospective buyers into groups (segments) that 1) have common needs, and 2) will respond similarly to a marketing action. |
| Strategic Business Unit (SBU) | a semi-autonomous division within a large corporation that operates as an independent business, possessing its own mission, management team, and, specific target markets. |
| Question Mark | LOW SHARE of HIGH GROWTH market require cash just to maintain their market share |
| Stars | HIGH SHARE at HIGH GROWTH market that may need extra cash to finance future rapid growth. If growth slows they are likely to become Cash Cows. |
| Cash Cows | generate large amounts of cash (HIGH SHARE), more than they can use. Dominant shares in SLOW GROWTH market and provide cash to invest in other SBU's |
| Dogs | LOW SHARE, LOW GROWTH market, may generate enough cash to sustain themselves may need to drop |
| Strategic Marketing Process | ALLOCATION OF an Organization MARKETING MIX resources to reach its target markets and achieve a competitive advantage |
| 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 organizational marketing plans and external forces and trends affecting it. |
| SWOT Analysis | is an acronym describing an organization’s appraisal of its internal STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES and its external OPPORTUNITIES and THREATS. |
| Customer value proposition | the cluster of BENIFITS that an organization PROMISES CUSTOMERS to satisfy their needs. |
| Points of difference | CHARACTERISTICS of a product that make it SUPERIOR to competitive substitutes. |
| Marketing strategy | the means by which a marketing goal is to be achieved, usually characterized by a specified target market and a marketing program to reach it. |
| Marketing tactics | the detailed, DAY-TO-DAY operational marketing actions for each element of the marketing mix that contributes to the overall success of marketing strategies. |