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Chapter 2 Developing Marketing Strategies and PlansNishant Agrawal
Developing Marketing Strategies and Plans
Value Delivery Process
What is the Value Chain?
Core Business Processes
Core Competencies
What is Holistic Marketing?
Levels of a Marketing Plan
Corporate Headquarters Planning Activities
Chapter 2 Developing Marketing Strategies and PlansNishant Agrawal
Developing Marketing Strategies and Plans
Value Delivery Process
What is the Value Chain?
Core Business Processes
Core Competencies
What is Holistic Marketing?
Levels of a Marketing Plan
Corporate Headquarters Planning Activities
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2. Chapter Outline
2.1 Developing a Strategic Plan
2.2 The Role of Marketing in the Strategic
Planning Process
2.3 Purpose and Structure of the Marketing
Plan
3. Types of business strategy
• strategy set of plans, actions, and goals that
outlines how a business will compete.
Types of strategic:
Corporate
business
Functional
4. Types of business strategy
• Many organizations have only a single product line,
market focus, or business, so they will require only
a business-level strategy.
• However, with larger organizations, it can be
important to break the overall business into smaller,
more manageable strategic business units to
maintain an overall focus on the business as a whole
and pull the business-level strategies into a cohesive
whole
5. Steps in the Strategic Planning
Process
Monitor progress
Establish objectives and goals
Perform gap analysis
Establish mission statement
Define vision statement
6. Steps in the Strategic Planning
Process
• Step One: The Vision Statement: Where Do We See
the Business Going.
• Step Two: The Mission Statement: Why Does the
Business Exist?
• Step Three: Perform a Gap Analysis:
A gap analysis answers the following questions:
• Where are we now?
• Where would we like to be?
• What’s stopping us from getting there?
7. There are four steps to completion
of a gap analysis.
1. Identify the current state of the business,
organization, or department.
2. Identify where you want to be.
3. Identify the gaps.
4. Devise improvements to close the gaps
8. Step Four: Establish Objectives
and Goals
Goals: are statements of desired outcomes that are
expected to be achieved over a longer period of time,
typically three to five years.
objectives are “action items.” They are specific
targets to be achieved within a shorter time frame,
generally one year or less, in order to achieve the
stated goal.
9. Step Four: Establish Objectives
and Goals
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time –
bound
10. 2.2 The Role of Marketing in the
Strategic Planning Process
Marketing in the strategic planning process has
several basic but critical functions:
First, marketers assist the strategic planning team in
executing a marketing philosophy throughout the
strategic planning process.
Second, marketers assist the organization in
gathering and analyzing information necessary to
examine the current situation .
Third, marketers are responsible for the
identification of trends in the marketing environment
and assessing the potential impact of those trends.
11. Business Portfolio Definition
• When companies have multiple products ,service or
business units, these comprise the business
portfolio.
13. Analyze and Design the Business
Portfolio
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14. SWOT ANALYSIS
• SWOT is an acronym for a business’s strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and it is a
useful aid for zeroing in on a feasible marketing
strategy.
• The purpose of a SWOT analysis is really quite
simple. Marketers want to identify the strengths and
weaknesses in the organization’s internal
environment as well as the opportunities and threats
that exist in the organization’s external
environment.
18. TYPES OF MERGER
1. Horizontal - a merger between companies with
similar products
2. Vertical - a merger that consolidates the supply
line of a product
3. Concentric - a merger between companies who
have similar audiences with different products
4. Conglomerate - a merger between companies
who offer diverse products/services
19. 2.3 Purpose and Structure of the
Marketing Plan
• If you’re a new business seeking funding, the bank
will want to see and understand your marketing plan
before parting with funds.
• If you have an existing business that you want to
grow, investors will likely go over your marketing
plan.
21. DEFINITION
• market development strategy: a growth strategy that
identifies and develops new market segments for current
products.
• market penetration strategy: a strategy used when a
company focuses on growing its market share in its existing
markets.
• product development strategy: complete process of
delivering a new product or improving an existing one for
customers.
• product diversification strategy: strategy to increase
profitability and achieve higher sales volume through new
products.
22. DEFINITION
corporate-level strategy: strategy that establishes the
overall value of a business through setting strategic
goals and motivating employees to achieve them.
functional strategy: actions and goals assigned to
business units that support the overall business
strategy.
business-level strategy: outline of the actions and
decisions a company plans to take to reach its goals
and objectives.