Strategic Market Planning Flashcards

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What is Strategic Plan ?

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3/5 years perspective.
- it’s a process where organisation’s leaders define their vision for the future and identify their org’s goals and objectives
- the process includes : establishing the sequence in which the goals should be realized so that the organization can reach its stated vision

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What is a Business plan ?

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2/3 years perspective
- written document
- presents targeted market and how each department plan to act in order to achieve it
- Operational and financial perspective

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What is Strategic Market Plan

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12/18 months perspective
- roadmap that business use to organize, track and execute their mkg strategy and tactics over a given period
- sales forecast for operational budget
- market research and analysis

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What are the 2 key components incorporated in mkg strategy ?

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POIC : P>O>I>C
Plan
Organize
Implement
Control
POIC approach as a process

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What is plan ?

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Situation
targets
strategies
execution

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What is Organization ?

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structure
culture
harmonization

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What is Implement ?

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activities
programs
systems
policies

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What is Control ?

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strategic orientation
productivity
activities and programs
systems and politics

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What is the 5 Ps

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Product/Service
Price
Place
Promotion
People

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Product / Service (quality) ?

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  • refers to the actual product / services a business offers to its customers
  • consider abt product designs, features, quality and differentiation from competitors
  • basic offer
  • inrersent and needs of customers on market (B2B, etc)
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Price

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  • Economic value
  • Perceived value added to customers
  • end users
    -3 criteria’s : cost, demadn, competition
  • Right price for a win-win commercial exchange
    -how the product or service is priced in the market.
  • setting the right price point to attract customers, compete effectively, and achieve profitability.
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Place

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  • Distribution channel, e-commerce
  • Logistic supply chain
  • Order processing, transport, warehousing
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Promotion

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  • inform and promote our value propositin (offer) by mix communication in and out the organisation
  • Publicity, sponsorship, sales promotion, environment, public relation, direct marketing. Digital marketing, sales, customer service
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People

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sales, customer support, relationship marketing : before, during and after decision process
- the individuals who work within the organization, as well as the interactions between employees and customers

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What is the most valuable competitive advantage of a strategic market planning ?

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The effective creative aspect

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Why must we developp a strategic mkg plan ?

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To developp our vision in term of activities and programms to make our future possible and reachable
- we must identify and define a plan to achieve it

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Benefits of strategic market plan ?

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  • objectivity and to be organized
  • Strategic directions for P/S
  • The must considering business environment
  • Alignment on department harmony and motivation
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Inconvenienceof strategic market plan ?

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  • Costs, time availability, efforts
  • Discipline and focus, being rigorous
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5 Conditions to succeed ?

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1- Market
2- Targets
3- Creativity
4- Process
5- Execution and Control

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What is the relation >< Strategic Mkg plan and Business plan ?

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  • harmonization : market and business plan
  • Both plan according the POIC approach must be synchronized especially when executed
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What are the expectations of other departments for marketing ?

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Sales forecast (=prediction or estimate of the future sales of a product or service)

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Specific mkg targets on ?

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  • new customers
  • customers satisfaction and retention
  • market shares
  • budgets
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What is the Marketing plan process ?

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SOCE method :
Situational analysis
Orientation
Creativity
Execution

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what is Situational analysis ?

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  • Internal environment : results, corporate performance
  • External environment : macromarketing and micromarketing
  • corporate stakes (SWOT)
    (=mis a process of evaluating and understanding a situation or problem by examining its internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats)
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What is Orientation ?

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  • Vision, mission, values (VMV)
  • Organisational structure
  • Marketing targets, goals
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What is Creativity ?

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-mix marketing (activitites and programs), strategies, targets, budget.

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what is Execution ?

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  • structure
  • implementation
  • control
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What is the management approach ?

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According to our management philosophy :
how we structure and manage our relationship >< the org and our custoemrs

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Management approach of marketing ? (POIC)

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  • According to our expertise our knowhow
  • Coordination, harmonization >< departments
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To be operational, the marketing plan has to be ?

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  • Realistic
  • Executory
  • Controlled and monitored
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Kind of definition for management approach of marketing ?

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  • to set up an administrative structure for coherent unity
  • to arrange elements into a whole of independent parts
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Marketing Organisational Structure : evolution over time and growth

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  • Sales structure
  • Sales supported by marketing
  • Independent marketing department
  • Integrated marketing
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What is sales structure ?

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  • in small and medium-sized businesses
  • it is often simple, with small sales team
  • may be managed by business owner or sales manager
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What is Sales supported by marketing ?

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  • in small businesses
  • mkg efforts may be limited or basic
  • sales teams primarily focus on selling
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What is Independent marketing department ?

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  • in medium-sized businesses
  • may be handled by a few individuals or outsourced to external agencies
  • as business expand : establish independent mkg department
    Responsible for : strategic mkg planning, advertising, promotions, brand management.
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What is Integrated marketing ?

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  • in global organizations
  • greater emphasis on integrated mkg
  • mkg and sales teams work collaboratively and cohesively to create a seamless customer experience
  • Marketing supports sales with lead generation, data analysis, and market research
  • Sales teams provide feedback to marketing for targeted campaigns.
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How do we control evaluate, know that we are getting where we want to be ?

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  • Performance auditing
  • Strategic orientation control
  • Productivity (performance) control
  • Mix mkg control (activities and programs)
  • Validation of our criteria’s
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What is Performance auditing ?

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  • systematic and independent evaluation or assessment
  • to determine how well it has achieved its objectives and whether it has operated efficiently and effectively.
  • conducted by government agencies, internal audit departments, or independent audit firms.
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What is Strategic orientation control ?

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Strategic monitoring (=refers to the ongoing process of tracking and assessing the progress of an organization’s strategic initiatives, goals, and objectives. )

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What is Productivity (performance) control ?

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Accounting system

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What is Mix marketing control (activitites and programs)

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Are we effective ?

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What is Validation of our criteria’s ?

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Results/targets
identify a problem
identify a fix act

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Strategic Market Implementation Approac

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evolution over time ad growth (small, medium businesses to global organisation)

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We can adopt different types of mkg organisation by ?

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Department : sales, customer service, mkg research, new products, publicity and promotion
Markets : consumers, businesses, commercial, industrial, institutional
Regions : provinces, countries, geographic regions
Products, groups of products, services, brands : debit cards, credit cards, loans, saving, mortgages
Projects : (special market development)

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