Chapter 2 Flashcards

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The managerial process of creating and maintaining a fit between the organization’s objectives and resources and the evolving market opportunities.

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Strategic Planning

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2
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A subgroup of a single business or a collection of related businesses within the large organization.

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Strategic Business Unit

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3
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Ansoff’s Strategy Opportunity matrix

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  1. Market Penetration
  2. Market Development
  3. Product Development
  4. Diversification
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4
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A marketing strategy that tries to increase market share among existing customers.

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Market Penetration

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5
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A marketing strategy that entails attracting new customers to existing products.

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Market Development

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6
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A marketing strategy that entails the creation of new products for current customers

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Product Development

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7
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A strategy of increasing sales by introducing new products into new markets

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Diversification

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8
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Written document that acts as a guidebook of marketing for the marketing manager.

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Marketing Plan

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9
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A statement of the firm’s business based on a careful analysis of benefits sought by present and potential customers and an analysis of existing and anticipated environmental conditions.

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Mission Statement

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10
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Defining a business in terms of goods and services rather than in terms of the benefits that customers seek.

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Marketing Myopia

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11
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A situational analysis in which a firm identifies its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

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SWOT Analysis

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12
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Collection and interpretation of information about forces, events, and relationships in the external environment that may affect the future of the organization or the implementation of the marketing plan

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Environmental scanning

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13
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The set of unique features of a company and its products that is perceived by the target market as significant and superior to the competitions

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Competitive Advantage

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14
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being the low cost competitor in an industry while maintaining satisfactory profit margins

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Cost competitive advantage

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15
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shows costs declining at a predictable rate as experience with a product increases

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Experience curves

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16
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when a firm provides something unique that is valuable to buyers beyond simply offering a low price

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Product/Service differentiation competitive advantage

17
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when a firm seeks to target and effectively serve a small segment of the market

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Niche competitive advantage

18
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an advantage that cannot be copied by the competition

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Sustainable competitive advantage

19
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a statement of what is to be accomplished through marketing activities. Must be realistic, measurable, Time-specific, & compared to a benchmark

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Marketing Objective

20
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the activities of selecting and describing one or more target markets and developing and maintaining a marketing mix that will produce mutually satisfying exchanges with target markets

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Marketing Strategy

21
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the description and estimation of the size and sales potential of market segments that are of interest to the firm and the assessment of key competitors in these market segments.

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market opportunity analysis (MOA)

22
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a unique blend of product, place, promotion and pricing strategies (four “P”s)

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Marketing Mix

23
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the process that turns a marketing plan into action assignments and ensures that these assignment are executed in a way the accomplishes the plan’s objectives

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Implementation

24
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Gauging the extent to which the marketing objectives have been achieved during the specified time period.

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Evaluation

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Provides the mechanisms for evaluating marketing results in light of the plan's objectives and for correcting actions that do not help the org reach those obj. within budget guidelines.
Control
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a thorough, systematic, periodic evaluation of the objectives, strategies, structure, and performance of the marketing organization.
Marketing Audit