W2 - Strategic Marketing planning Flashcards
How do companies address markets?
They have Strategic Business Units (SBU’s) that have different brands serving different markets. Sometimes have different brands in the same market to cover different parts of the market and customer needs.
What is strategic planning?
The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organisation’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities
What is a mission statement?
A statement of the organisation’s purpose - what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment. Why the brand or the company exists, what they want to accomplish in the larger environment
What should a mission statement include?
- Be customer focussed
- Be defined in terms of satisfying customer needs
- Be motivating to consumers
- Not be stated as making more sales or profits
How do market orientated mission statements differ from product orientated ones?
They are far more evocative, expressed in a far better way
What must the objectives of a SBU be?
he objectives of the business unit and the objectives of the brands within it must help deliver the braoder corporate objectives
What must objectives be?
SMART
What does SMART objectives stand for?
- Specific
- Measurable
- Achievable
- Realistic
- Time-bound
How are objectives used?
To develop marketing strategies to align with them
What is the order of who needs to achieve objectives first?
- The brand
- The SBU
- The Corporate
What is the business porfolio?
The collection of businesses and products that make up the company. Businesses in the portfolio are called Strategic Business Units
What are strategic business units?
Parts of the business under a larger company such as the Petcare SBU under Nestle with it’s own brands
What are the characteristics of SBUs?
- Each SBU operates in a unique product-market
- Each product market they compete in is broken into distinct consumer segments that have different needs and wants
- Each brand has a unique value proposition
- Each brand has a different deployment of the marketing mix
Why is segmenting the market important?
The more segments they can focus on with different products can increase market share
What does business profolio planning entail?
- Analysing the current business portfolio and deciding which businesses should receive more less or no investment
- Shape the future portfolio by developing strategies for growth and downsizing
What does the BCG matrix allow?
The BCG matrix allows us to plot the SBU’s into different boxes allowing us to see which businesses we should put time and money into
How can you evaluate an SBU?
- Looking at the attractiveness of the SBU’s market or industry
- The strength of the SBU’s position in that market or industry
What parts of the market does the BCG growth-share matrix evaluate?
- Market growth rate
- Relative market share