Hofstede's cultural dimensions can provide insight into market cannibalism strategies. The document discusses Hofstede's six dimensions of culture that can help relate customer buying patterns to their cultural backgrounds. It also examines how culture heavily influences consumer behavior and perspectives, which are important factors for market cannibalism approaches as a marketing strategy. Market cannibalism can be viewed not just as a phenomenon but as an intentional strategy when considering how cultural influences consumer preferences.
1. Effect of Cultural
Dimensions on Market
Cannibalism
An understanding of how market
cannibalism, marketing strategy can be
related to the Hoftede’s Cultural
Dimensions.
Authors:
Maithreya Chakravarthula
Vikram Aditya Chakravarthula
2. Key Concepts
1. Hoftede’s Theory of Cultural Dimensions
2. Culture & Consumer Behavior
3. Consumer Behavior & Marketing Strategy
4. Market Cannibalism as a Marketing
Strategy
3. Use culture to build a brand &
then a Brand to build a Culture
Product + Brand + Culture = Value
4. Hofstede’s Theory of Cultural
Dimensions
A scale of comparison on unique aspects of culture
Six different dimensions
Importance: Understanding people as a society
Why? A tool to relate customer buying patterns with
cultures
20. Conclusion
Market Cannibalism – Not a phenomenon but a
strategy
Market Cannibalism – based on Consumer
Behavior
Consumer Behavior – Heavily influenced by culture
Hofstede’s Dimensions provide an insight in
Editor's Notes
Importance of culture on brand, market, customers, decision making, psychology etc.
First poster : A man lying in the hot desert sand totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster : The man is drinking Coca-Cola.
Third poster : Our man is now totally refreshed.
And then these posters were pasted all over the place.
"Terrific! That should have worked!" said the friend.
"The hell it should have!" said the salesman.
"No one told me they read from right to left!”
Video on perspective and relate perspective to culture
Blank Slide
Same slide with markings on it!
Ask them the difference between this and the other
The reason we identified the spot on the previous slide is because of these. And the way we interpret these differences are defined and shaped by our culture.
Traditional: Man eats another man
Modern: He eats himself
New iPhone 6 promotion should boost its own sales
The sales of the 5s must go down!
New iPhone 6 promotion should boosts the sale of the older phone
The sales of the 5s go up!
Expected theoretical Technique of cannibalism.
Raise in sales when new product launched. Compare Q4 to Q3.
Initially Q4 sales < Q3 sales (New product expected in next quarter, so people don’t buy);
The trend of following the bell curve does not work in this case.
Why?
After the launch of each new product, initially it is common that people are critical about it. They wait for the reviews, ask people about it and then buy it after they are convinced.
When all iPhones are considered as a single product though… the bell curve retains its position
Unexpected Technique of cannibalism – In modern times, reality
Raise in sales when new product launched but at the same time rise in sales of the 4th quarter. Compare Q4 to Q3.
Q3 sales < Q4 sales (New product expected in next quarter, yet people buying the older product before the launch of the new one)
Cost to benefit ratio!
Clearly price is a determining factor. Each new release is just an incremental upgrade. Lower cost to benefit ratio!
The other way…
Started with Culture, consumer behavior, cannibalism
Ended with cannibalism, consumer behavior, culture