BDSMM Flashcards
Different types of costumer needs?
Physical – Food, sleep, housing
Social – Group affiliation
Psychological – The individual and self-fulfillment
What is a macroenviornment?
The major external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization’s decision making, and affect its performance and strategies.
What are the different aspects of a PESTLE analysis?
Political, Economic, Social and cutural, Technological, Legal, envoirnmental
What is a Microenvironment?
Factors or elements in an organization’s immediate area of operations that affect
its performance and decision-making freedom
What different analyses are done for a microanalysis?
Market analysis – To understand market size, growth rates and trends
Industry analysis – To evaluate and learn to understand the “rules” and
structure of the industry where you are active
Competitor analysis – To evaluate and learn to understand competitors’
strengths, weaknesses and reaction patterns
Customer
What is a market analysis?
Size
o Current
o Potential
Growth
Profit potential – See industry analysis
Cost structures in the industry – What is the distribution of costs for the
main cost drivers
Distribution structures –” From the mine to the customer”
Trends and development
Key/Critical Success Factors (KSFs)
What does diffusion of innovation mean?
Innovators – Ca 2,5% of those customers who will accept an innovation in
the end
Early adopters – Ca 13,5%
Early majority – Ca 34% * Late majority – Ca 13,5%
Laggards – Ca 16%
What is Porters Five forces?
It is in Industry analysis.
- Threat of new endtrants
- Bargening power of suppliers
- Bargening power of customers
- Threat of substitute product, products, services.
- THE INDUSTRY, Degree of riverly
What are the five key questions of a competitor analysis?
- Who are our competitors?
- What are their strengths and weaknesses?
- What are their strategic objectives and thrust?
- What are their strategies?
- What are their response patterns?
o result in changed key success factors
What is a competitor Audit?
Identify key/critical success factors in the industry
Rate competitors (and our own company) on each key success factor
What is in a SWOT? Explain as much as you can
Strengths (Internal – Controllable) Strengths describe the positive attributes, tangible and intangible, internal to your organization. They are within your control.
Weaknesses (Internal – Controllable) Weaknesses are aspects of your business that detract from the value you offer or place you at a competitive disadvantage. You need to enhance these areas in order to compete with your best competitor.
Opportunities (External – Uncontrollable) Opportunities are external attractive factors that represent reasons your business is likely to prosper.
Threats (External – Uncontrollable) Threats include external factors
beyond your control that could place your strategy, or the business itself,
at risk. You have no control over these, but you may benefit by having contingency plans to address them if they should occur.
WHat do we do to identify a customer need?
- Market research
- Surveys
- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Observations
- Business Intelligence
Who are the different parts of a market?
- Seller – Offers/Supply
- Buyers – Demand
- Meeting
Physical or virtual - Regulations/Norms
How does it work?
Laws
Stand in line - Other stakeholders
Greenpeace, Amnesty, neighbours
What does B2B and B2C mean?
B2B = Business to business
B2C = Business to customer
What is the five key questions for customer behaviour?
- How do they buy?
- Where do they buy?
- Who is important?
- What are their choice criteria?
- When do they buy?
Who buys? Who is important?
- Initiator – Begins by considering to solve a problem
- Influencer – Persuader
- Decider – Power and/or financial authority
- Buyer – Effectuates the purchase
- User – Consuming/using the product
How the customer buy?
- Need recognition
- Search for information
- Evaluation of alternatives
- Purchase Decision
- Post- Purchase Evaluation
Give some examples of a customer’s choice criteria?
Technical, economic, personal, social,
Give some examples of where a customer buys?
Physical store, mall, internet…
Give some examples of when a customer buys?
- When to buy depends on buying situation: we differ between extended problem-solving
(extended search), limited problem-solving (usual sources) and habitual problem-solving
(no/limited search)
Give examples of perceived cost?
Percived sacrifice/total cost associated with the purchase:
- Monetary costs
- Time costs
- Energy costs
- Psychological costs, risk
What are the key characteristics to B2B?
- Few actors (suppliers and customers) usually leads to long term relationships and
strong networks - Each market is unique – Detailed understanding is important
- Complexity of buying is often high. Buying decisions are made primarily on
economic and technical criteria. - E-commerce is common. Value-added networks and virtual marketplaces are
beneficial (incl higher reachability, lower procurement costs, better connectivity to
suppliers and buyers) - Risks and uncertainty affects the buying decision
- Often very specific requirements apply
- Derived demands
- Prices are negotiated
- In B2B, Organisations are buying – and selling. Not individuals.
- Configuration of buying organisation (Decision making unit, DMU) might change depending
on decision-making process.
Influences of buying decisions? The buy classes
- New task – When the need has not occured previously
- Straight rebuy – Buys previously purchased items from ”old” suppliers
- Modified rebuy – Buys previously purchased items from ”new” suppliers
What is a marketing Information system?
A system in which marketing information is formally gathered,
stored, analyzed, and distributed to managers in accord with their informational
needs on a regular basis
give some examples of what can be in a market information system.
- Internal continuous data
Financial data
Profitability (product, customer, distribution channel)
Customer behaviour
Internal ad-hoc data - Data for a specific/ad-hoc purpose
Changes due to promotion activities
Introduction of new products - Environmental scanning
Data related to macroenvironment
Monitor changes in macroenvironment
Long-term perspective - Marketing research
Data related to markets and market offers
Shorter-term perspective
External continuous data sources (via e-commerce/apps), or ad-hoc data
What does ad- hoc research mean?
Ad-hoc research (one-time studies)
* Custom-designed studies
* Omnibus studies – Part of bigger/multi-client studies
What are the differnet competitor response patterns?
- Retaliatory
Responds aggressively to competitive challenges - Slow reactions due to complacency
- Hemmed-in
Difficulties to respond due to strategies, laws etc - Selectively
Aggressive in certain areas (e.g. price) but not in others (e.g. innovations) - Unpredictable
No particular pattern
What is in a market analysis?
- Size- Current, Potential
- Market growth
- Market profitability – See Industry Analysis (Porter’s Five Forces)
- Cost structures in the industry – What does the distribution of costs look like for the main
cost drivers? - Distribution systems – ”From the mine to the customer”
- Trends and developments
- Key Success Factors
What is in a company analysis?
- Operating results
Sales
Market share
Profit margins
Costs - Strategic issues analysis
Marketing objectives
Market segmentation
Competitive advantage - Core competences
Positioning
Portfolio analysis
Performance measurement - Marketing mix effectiveness
Product
Price
Promotion
Distribution/Place - Marketing structures
Marketing organisation
Marketing training
Intra-and interdepartmental communication - Marketing systems
Marketing information systems
Marketing planning system
Marketing control system
What are the different strategic thrusts?
- Market penetration/expansion – When you try to increase the market share, using existing
products on existing markets - Market development - When you try to introduce existing products on new/related markets
- Product development - When you try to introduce new/related products on existing markets
- Diversification/Enter new markets - When you try to introduce new/related products on
new/related markets
What are the competitive strategies?
- Differentiation
- Cost leadership
- Differentiation focus
- Cost focus