Marketing Flashcards
Market forces
Technology, Globalization, Physical environment and Social responsibility.
Market outcomes
New consumer capabilities, New company capabilities and New competitive environment.
Holistic marketing
Relationship marketing, Integrated marketing, Internal marketing and Performance marketing.
Corporate social responsibility
Understand how companies actions impact the planet and the sustainability of human life.
Management
The ability to use organisational resources to achieve organisational goals through planning, organising, leading and control.
Planning
Establishes the direction of the organisation.
Organising
Divides activities among work groups, allocating the people, technological, physical, financial and information services required to achieve tasks.
Leading
Motivates employees to achieve organisational goals.
Control
Measures and evaluates organisational performances.
The organisational context
Complexity, Uncertainty, Variety.
Managing in organisations
Individuals, interactions, Formal systems and Social systems.
Five modes of entry into foreign markets
Direct investment, Joint ventures, Licensing and franchising, Direct exporting and Indirect exporting.
Entry strategies
The waterfall approach, the sprinkler approach, The wave approach and The digital market entry approach.
Evaluating attractiveness of potential markets
That rank high on market attractiveness, that are low in market risk and In which it possesses a competitive advantage.
Market-driven organisations excel in three distinctive capabilities according to Day and Schoemaker
Market sensing, Customer linking and Channel bonding.
Drucker’s classic questions about how to define a companys mission
What is our business?
Who is the customer?
What is of value to the customer?
What will our business be?
What should our business be?
SBU stands for
Strategic business unit.
A single SBU has three characteristics
It is a single business, or a collection of related businesses, that can be planned separately from the rest of the company.
It has its own set of competitors
It has a manager responsible for strategic planning and profit performance, who controls most of the factors affecting profit.
Boston Consultancy Group matrix
Star
Cash cow
Question mark
Dog
Stars
Are likely to be profitable and are market leaders but require substantial investment to finance growth and to meet competitive challenges. They are tomorrow’s cash cows.
Problem children or question marks
Are products in high-growth markets, need significant investment and are a drain on cash flow. In the short term they are low-share products and are likely to be profitable in the longer term.
Cash cows
Are leaders in mature(low-growth) markets. High market share leads to high and low investment.
Dogs
Operate in the low-growth markets and have low market share. Most dogs produce low or negative cash flows.
Ansoff’s product-market expansion grid
Market penetration strategy
Product development strategy
Market development strategy
Diversification strategy