8. Marketing role in strategic
planning
S Much overlap between overall company and marketing
strategy
S Marketing provides to strategic planning:
S Guiding philosophy
S Inputs to strategic planning
S Strategies to reach objectives
9. Cross-functional conflict
S The marketing dept. take the consumer/stakeholders
point of view
S Other dept. may resist bending their efforts
S Yet marketers must get all depts. To “think consumer”
19. Positioning
9-19
Positioning is the act
of designing the company’s
offering and image to occupy
a distinctive place in the mind of
the target market