The document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It explains that strategic planning is carried out at different levels of an organization, from corporate headquarters down to individual business units. A marketing plan operates at both a strategic and tactical level. It includes a situation analysis, marketing strategy, financial projections, and implementation controls. The plan should be simple, specific, realistic and complete.
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This document provides an introduction to IMC International, an investment and management consulting firm. It discusses IMC's history starting in 1998 and expanding globally to over 60 countries by 2016. IMC offers services including M&A/corporate finance, restructuring, expansion support, and private equity investing. The document outlines IMC's areas of industry focus, investment strategies, and process for evaluating potential deals. It also introduces some of the key members of IMC's corporate finance task force team.
The document discusses various paradigms and examples of marketing innovations in India. It provides examples of innovative marketing strategies used by companies like Sony TV, LG Electronics, Hyundai, and Procter & Gamble to succeed in India. It also discusses reasons for marketing innovations in India and how understanding local consumer preferences and price sensitivities is important for companies.
This document discusses market positioning and brand revitalization. It defines positioning as portraying an image of a company's product and customer relations in customers' minds. Successful positioning strategies include attribute, benefit, use, user, competitor, and value positioning. The 3Cs of positioning are the corporation, customers, and competitors. Brand revitalization is adopting when profits have fallen to bring a product back to the market. It discusses why brand revitalization is needed due to increased competition, changed brand relevance, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, new technology, and legal issues. Methods of brand revitalization include increasing product usage through advertising and changing packaging, price, distribution, and promotion strategies.
A study on promtion activities conducted at arpita bajaj, hassanProjects Kart
This document provides an overview of sales promotion strategies used by Baja Auto Ltd. It discusses how sales promotion is an important marketing tool to communicate with potential customers. The document then outlines the objectives, scope, research methodology, and limitations of a study conducted on the sales promotion activities of Arpita Bajaj, a division of Baja Auto Ltd. It aims to analyze which promotional strategies are most effective and how customers respond to different promotions. The company profile section provides background on the two-wheeler industry in India and Baja Auto Ltd's role in the market.
Positioning involves designing an offer to occupy a distinct place in customers' minds. Successful positioning requires understanding where a brand is positioned in customers' perceptions and developing strategies accordingly. It also relies on market segmentation, formulation of a positioning statement aligned with promotional objectives, and establishing a distinct brand image in competitive markets. Positioning can be functional, focusing on features and benefits, or expressive/symbolic, emphasizing emotional associations. Repositioning changes a brand's status versus competitors in response to market changes. Successful positioning and repositioning examples include Virgin Airways emphasizing experience, Michelin emphasizing authority, GE focusing on sustainability, and Old Spice targeting younger customers with a fresher image.
This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts. It defines marketing as the process of creating and delivering value for customers. Four marketing philosophies are described: production, sales, market, and societal orientations. The sales orientation focuses on aggressive selling, while the market orientation focuses on customer needs. Key differences between the sales and market orientations are discussed, such as the organization's focus (inward for sales, outward for market) and goals (maximum sales vs. customer satisfaction). Finally, reasons for studying marketing are presented, including its importance to businesses and society as well as career opportunities.
Department of Management- Market Positioning
Why Positioning?
What is Image
Current Image
Mirror Image
Errors in Positioning
Doubtful Positioning
Positioning Strategies
Competitor Positioning
Attribute Positioning
International business project on mnc by muhammad talhaMuhammad Talha
This document outlines a strategy project for a multinational enterprise. It identifies the team members and divides the topics among them. The topics include strategy formulation, strategic orientations, internal and external assessments, goal setting, implementation, functional strategies, and control/evaluation. For each topic, it provides an outline of the key points to be covered in the project.
This document provides an introduction to IMC International, an investment and management consulting firm. It discusses IMC's history starting in 1998 and expanding globally to over 60 countries by 2016. IMC offers services including M&A/corporate finance, restructuring, expansion support, and private equity investing. The document outlines IMC's areas of industry focus, investment strategies, and process for evaluating potential deals. It also introduces some of the key members of IMC's corporate finance task force team.
The document discusses various paradigms and examples of marketing innovations in India. It provides examples of innovative marketing strategies used by companies like Sony TV, LG Electronics, Hyundai, and Procter & Gamble to succeed in India. It also discusses reasons for marketing innovations in India and how understanding local consumer preferences and price sensitivities is important for companies.
This document discusses market positioning and brand revitalization. It defines positioning as portraying an image of a company's product and customer relations in customers' minds. Successful positioning strategies include attribute, benefit, use, user, competitor, and value positioning. The 3Cs of positioning are the corporation, customers, and competitors. Brand revitalization is adopting when profits have fallen to bring a product back to the market. It discusses why brand revitalization is needed due to increased competition, changed brand relevance, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, new technology, and legal issues. Methods of brand revitalization include increasing product usage through advertising and changing packaging, price, distribution, and promotion strategies.
A study on promtion activities conducted at arpita bajaj, hassanProjects Kart
This document provides an overview of sales promotion strategies used by Baja Auto Ltd. It discusses how sales promotion is an important marketing tool to communicate with potential customers. The document then outlines the objectives, scope, research methodology, and limitations of a study conducted on the sales promotion activities of Arpita Bajaj, a division of Baja Auto Ltd. It aims to analyze which promotional strategies are most effective and how customers respond to different promotions. The company profile section provides background on the two-wheeler industry in India and Baja Auto Ltd's role in the market.
Positioning involves designing an offer to occupy a distinct place in customers' minds. Successful positioning requires understanding where a brand is positioned in customers' perceptions and developing strategies accordingly. It also relies on market segmentation, formulation of a positioning statement aligned with promotional objectives, and establishing a distinct brand image in competitive markets. Positioning can be functional, focusing on features and benefits, or expressive/symbolic, emphasizing emotional associations. Repositioning changes a brand's status versus competitors in response to market changes. Successful positioning and repositioning examples include Virgin Airways emphasizing experience, Michelin emphasizing authority, GE focusing on sustainability, and Old Spice targeting younger customers with a fresher image.
This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts. It defines marketing as the process of creating and delivering value for customers. Four marketing philosophies are described: production, sales, market, and societal orientations. The sales orientation focuses on aggressive selling, while the market orientation focuses on customer needs. Key differences between the sales and market orientations are discussed, such as the organization's focus (inward for sales, outward for market) and goals (maximum sales vs. customer satisfaction). Finally, reasons for studying marketing are presented, including its importance to businesses and society as well as career opportunities.
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Ad Agency: Various Functional Department, Types, Measures for gaining and reasons for losing clients, Evaluation Criteria for Selecting an Advertising Agency.
Media: New Media Options, Forms of Digital Media, Media Objectives, Criteria for Selecting Suitable Media, Methods of Setting Advertising Budget
This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts from a textbook on marketing management from an Asian perspective. It discusses the importance of marketing and defines marketing. It also covers fundamental concepts such as the scope of marketing, needs and demands, target markets, segmentation, positioning, offerings and brands, value and satisfaction, marketing channels, and competition. Examples provided relate to marketing in Asia, including discussions of companies like McDonald's marketing strategies in China, and coffee vending machines in Japan.
3 c's and 4c's plays very important role in any business in its management as well as in marketing. This presentation shows how to implement these factors to success your business.
Solutions Marketing at IBM - an observationDee Sarma
The document summarizes a presentation given by Naomi Wilsey from IBM about IBM's transition to becoming a solutions-focused company. Some key points:
- In the early 1990s, IBM identified that it needed to shift from being product-focused to becoming more customer-centric and solutions-driven to address clients' business problems.
- IBM collaborated with ITSMA to help define what a "solution" means. It also formed a Solutions Board to help drive the transition.
- The role of marketers at IBM changed from being sales-driven and tactical to becoming more marketing-driven and strategic in developing integrated solutions.
- Thought leadership, developing solutions for emerging markets, and customizing offerings
The document discusses the history and development of the marketing mix concept. It notes that the term was first coined in 1948 by Neil Borden in an article describing marketing managers as "mixers of ingredients". In 1960, Jerome McCarthy further developed Borden's theory by identifying the four main elements of the marketing mix as the 4 P's: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. The marketing mix refers to the set of controllable variables that a company uses to influence consumer demand.
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The document discusses strategic positioning for companies. It covers topics like market positioning, differentiation, target segments, positioning strategies for different sectors, competitive landscape analysis, and product positioning maps. Specific strategies discussed include benefit, surrogate, corporate identity, category, user, application, quality/price, and attribute-based positioning. Metrics like competitive advantage, company standing, and ability to improve standing are evaluated for recommended strategic actions.
Marketing positioning is the process by which marketers try to create an identity for a brand in the minds of customers. Repositioning involves changing this identity relative to competitors. Reasons for repositioning include responding to competition, increasing slow sales, clarifying the brand message, boosting company value, and attracting new customers. Repositioning can strengthen competitive position, improve sales, better target the market, align with customer needs, and generate media attention through various approaches like emphasizing celebrity endorsements, changing target segments, symbolism, moving up-market, expanding niches, or overhauling brand image.
This document discusses how startups can stay focused during different stages of growth. It outlines the typical lifecycle stages of discovery, validation, product, efficiency, growth, and maturity. It then discusses common reasons startups fail, including lack of focus. The document recommends outsourcing non-core roles and capabilities like finance, marketing, business development and legal to stay focused on key priorities. Finally, it suggests areas a startup can accelerate like operations, customers, finance and product with the help of outsourced expertise.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in marketing strategy and planning. It discusses companywide strategic planning, including defining missions and objectives, analyzing business portfolios, and developing strategies. It also covers marketing strategy, including market segmentation, targeting, positioning, and the marketing mix. Finally, it discusses marketing implementation, organization, and control, including return on marketing investment.
The document discusses key concepts around building customer relationships, value, satisfaction and loyalty. It covers determining customer perceived value by evaluating the benefits and costs of offerings. Companies must deliver value through high quality products and services to increase satisfaction and maximize customer lifetime value and profitability. Firms can better understand profitable customers through analysis of individual customer-product profitability.
The document provides an acknowledgement and thanks from the student to various parties who helped with the completion of their marketing research program. It expresses gratitude to their program manager at Neelkanth Group of Institution for providing the opportunity. It also thanks their project guide for their guidance and support. Finally, it expresses appreciation to all respondents and other individuals who provided cooperation and assistance.
This document discusses strategic business units (SBUs) and provides Dabur India Limited as a case study. It defines SBUs and their characteristics. Dabur's structure consists of multiple SBUs including consumer care, international business, and retail divisions. The document outlines Dabur's history, vision, markets, manufacturing units, and strategies around promotion, distribution, regional branding, and pricing. It analyzes Dabur's product portfolio using the BCG matrix and provides recommendations to focus on national branding and innovation. In conclusion, it states that Dabur has a strong distribution network and is one of India's most trusted FMCG companies with aggressive strategies to capture various market segments.
The document discusses companywide strategic planning and marketing strategy. It outlines the steps in strategic planning which include developing mission and vision statements to define the company's objectives. It also discusses designing the business portfolio, partnering with customers to build relationships, and developing an integrated marketing mix. The marketing mix consists of the 4Ps: product, price, place, and promotion. The document emphasizes developing a customer-centered approach and implementing marketing plans through effective organization.
Hyundai Motor Company is a large South Korean automaker that is among the top 4 largest automakers in the world. It operates the world's largest car manufacturing plant in Ulsan, South Korea, and sells vehicles globally through over 5,000 dealerships. Hyundai has grown rapidly in recent decades to become a major international brand known for quality and value. It offers a range of cars from small hatchbacks to SUVs under its integrated marketing strategy.
39 Solutions is India’s leading strategy and brand insights firm. With proven expertise and global experience, 39 Solutions partners with clients and works closely with them to create success stories.
We help a business to grow, create a strong brand, manage risk and create sustainable strategic advantages. We believe in winning together: With You. For Success.
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This document discusses business-to-business marketing and organizational buying behavior. It provides information on the key differences between business and consumer markets, including that business markets have fewer but larger buyers. It also outlines the three main types of buying situations organizations face - straight rebuy, modified rebuy, and new task - and explains how marketing implications differ based on the situation. Additionally, it describes the various roles that make up an organizational buying center and the influences on business purchasing decisions.
The document discusses managing marketing organizations and improving marketing performance. It covers trends in marketing like outsourcing and partnering. It also discusses organizing the marketing department through functional, product, or market-based structures. The document also discusses improving marketing skills through developing customer focus, using tools like marketing audits to monitor performance, and practicing social responsibility through cause marketing.
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This document discusses market segmentation and targeting. It defines market segmentation as dividing a market into distinct groups of customers that have common needs and attributes. It then describes four main ways to segment consumer markets: geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral. It also discusses factors to consider when segmenting business markets. Finally, it outlines the steps companies should take to identify attractive target markets, such as evaluating segment size, growth, and profit potential.
This document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers key topics such as the value chain, core competencies, holistic marketing, strategic planning processes, SWOT analysis, marketing opportunities, and the components of a marketing plan. A marketing plan operates at both a strategic and tactical level, and includes an executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financial projections, and implementation controls. Strategic planning is carried out differently at the corporate headquarters, business unit, and marketing department levels.
Advertising Fundamentals and Media
Basics of Advertising: Concept and Features, Significance, Classification of Advertising, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) - Elements, Behavioural Model (E. K. Strong AIDA), DAGMAR Model (Russell Colley), Heirarchy of Effects (Lavidge and Steiners).
Ad Agency: Various Functional Department, Types, Measures for gaining and reasons for losing clients, Evaluation Criteria for Selecting an Advertising Agency.
Media: New Media Options, Forms of Digital Media, Media Objectives, Criteria for Selecting Suitable Media, Methods of Setting Advertising Budget
This document provides an overview of key marketing concepts from a textbook on marketing management from an Asian perspective. It discusses the importance of marketing and defines marketing. It also covers fundamental concepts such as the scope of marketing, needs and demands, target markets, segmentation, positioning, offerings and brands, value and satisfaction, marketing channels, and competition. Examples provided relate to marketing in Asia, including discussions of companies like McDonald's marketing strategies in China, and coffee vending machines in Japan.
3 c's and 4c's plays very important role in any business in its management as well as in marketing. This presentation shows how to implement these factors to success your business.
Solutions Marketing at IBM - an observationDee Sarma
The document summarizes a presentation given by Naomi Wilsey from IBM about IBM's transition to becoming a solutions-focused company. Some key points:
- In the early 1990s, IBM identified that it needed to shift from being product-focused to becoming more customer-centric and solutions-driven to address clients' business problems.
- IBM collaborated with ITSMA to help define what a "solution" means. It also formed a Solutions Board to help drive the transition.
- The role of marketers at IBM changed from being sales-driven and tactical to becoming more marketing-driven and strategic in developing integrated solutions.
- Thought leadership, developing solutions for emerging markets, and customizing offerings
The document discusses the history and development of the marketing mix concept. It notes that the term was first coined in 1948 by Neil Borden in an article describing marketing managers as "mixers of ingredients". In 1960, Jerome McCarthy further developed Borden's theory by identifying the four main elements of the marketing mix as the 4 P's: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. The marketing mix refers to the set of controllable variables that a company uses to influence consumer demand.
Automobile Lead Generation Strategies & Outcome Research Paper - 2019Astha Benevolent
Lead Management Research Study performed for Lodestar UM (FCB Ulka) for understanding Mumbai masses automobile buying behaviour to produce relevant information for upcoming campaigns.
The document discusses strategic positioning for companies. It covers topics like market positioning, differentiation, target segments, positioning strategies for different sectors, competitive landscape analysis, and product positioning maps. Specific strategies discussed include benefit, surrogate, corporate identity, category, user, application, quality/price, and attribute-based positioning. Metrics like competitive advantage, company standing, and ability to improve standing are evaluated for recommended strategic actions.
Marketing positioning is the process by which marketers try to create an identity for a brand in the minds of customers. Repositioning involves changing this identity relative to competitors. Reasons for repositioning include responding to competition, increasing slow sales, clarifying the brand message, boosting company value, and attracting new customers. Repositioning can strengthen competitive position, improve sales, better target the market, align with customer needs, and generate media attention through various approaches like emphasizing celebrity endorsements, changing target segments, symbolism, moving up-market, expanding niches, or overhauling brand image.
This document discusses how startups can stay focused during different stages of growth. It outlines the typical lifecycle stages of discovery, validation, product, efficiency, growth, and maturity. It then discusses common reasons startups fail, including lack of focus. The document recommends outsourcing non-core roles and capabilities like finance, marketing, business development and legal to stay focused on key priorities. Finally, it suggests areas a startup can accelerate like operations, customers, finance and product with the help of outsourced expertise.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in marketing strategy and planning. It discusses companywide strategic planning, including defining missions and objectives, analyzing business portfolios, and developing strategies. It also covers marketing strategy, including market segmentation, targeting, positioning, and the marketing mix. Finally, it discusses marketing implementation, organization, and control, including return on marketing investment.
The document discusses key concepts around building customer relationships, value, satisfaction and loyalty. It covers determining customer perceived value by evaluating the benefits and costs of offerings. Companies must deliver value through high quality products and services to increase satisfaction and maximize customer lifetime value and profitability. Firms can better understand profitable customers through analysis of individual customer-product profitability.
The document provides an acknowledgement and thanks from the student to various parties who helped with the completion of their marketing research program. It expresses gratitude to their program manager at Neelkanth Group of Institution for providing the opportunity. It also thanks their project guide for their guidance and support. Finally, it expresses appreciation to all respondents and other individuals who provided cooperation and assistance.
This document discusses strategic business units (SBUs) and provides Dabur India Limited as a case study. It defines SBUs and their characteristics. Dabur's structure consists of multiple SBUs including consumer care, international business, and retail divisions. The document outlines Dabur's history, vision, markets, manufacturing units, and strategies around promotion, distribution, regional branding, and pricing. It analyzes Dabur's product portfolio using the BCG matrix and provides recommendations to focus on national branding and innovation. In conclusion, it states that Dabur has a strong distribution network and is one of India's most trusted FMCG companies with aggressive strategies to capture various market segments.
The document discusses companywide strategic planning and marketing strategy. It outlines the steps in strategic planning which include developing mission and vision statements to define the company's objectives. It also discusses designing the business portfolio, partnering with customers to build relationships, and developing an integrated marketing mix. The marketing mix consists of the 4Ps: product, price, place, and promotion. The document emphasizes developing a customer-centered approach and implementing marketing plans through effective organization.
Hyundai Motor Company is a large South Korean automaker that is among the top 4 largest automakers in the world. It operates the world's largest car manufacturing plant in Ulsan, South Korea, and sells vehicles globally through over 5,000 dealerships. Hyundai has grown rapidly in recent decades to become a major international brand known for quality and value. It offers a range of cars from small hatchbacks to SUVs under its integrated marketing strategy.
39 Solutions is India’s leading strategy and brand insights firm. With proven expertise and global experience, 39 Solutions partners with clients and works closely with them to create success stories.
We help a business to grow, create a strong brand, manage risk and create sustainable strategic advantages. We believe in winning together: With You. For Success.
For More:http://39solutions.com/
This document discusses business-to-business marketing and organizational buying behavior. It provides information on the key differences between business and consumer markets, including that business markets have fewer but larger buyers. It also outlines the three main types of buying situations organizations face - straight rebuy, modified rebuy, and new task - and explains how marketing implications differ based on the situation. Additionally, it describes the various roles that make up an organizational buying center and the influences on business purchasing decisions.
The document discusses managing marketing organizations and improving marketing performance. It covers trends in marketing like outsourcing and partnering. It also discusses organizing the marketing department through functional, product, or market-based structures. The document also discusses improving marketing skills through developing customer focus, using tools like marketing audits to monitor performance, and practicing social responsibility through cause marketing.
The document discusses branding and brand equity. It defines a brand as a name, symbol or design that identifies a seller's goods/services and differentiates them from competitors. Branding involves endowing products with the power of the brand. Brand equity is the added value provided by branding, as reflected in how consumers think, feel and act regarding the brand. Strong brands enjoy advantages like greater loyalty and price premiums. Building brand equity involves identifying brand positioning, implementing brand marketing, measuring performance, and growing brand value over time. Developing a branding strategy requires decisions around brand elements, portfolios, and extensions.
This document discusses market segmentation and targeting. It defines market segmentation as dividing a market into distinct groups of customers that have common needs and attributes. It then describes four main ways to segment consumer markets: geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral. It also discusses factors to consider when segmenting business markets. Finally, it outlines the steps companies should take to identify attractive target markets, such as evaluating segment size, growth, and profit potential.
This document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers key topics such as the value chain, core competencies, holistic marketing, strategic planning processes, SWOT analysis, marketing opportunities, and the components of a marketing plan. A marketing plan operates at both a strategic and tactical level, and includes an executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financial projections, and implementation controls. Strategic planning is carried out differently at the corporate headquarters, business unit, and marketing department levels.
This document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers topics such as phases of value creation, the value chain, core business processes, maximizing core competencies, holistic marketing, strategic planning at different organizational levels, SWOT analysis, goal formulation, Porter's generic strategies, marketing alliances, and elements of a successful marketing plan. A marketing plan is the central document for directing a company's marketing efforts at both the strategic and tactical levels. It typically includes an executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financial projections, and implementation controls.
The document discusses various concepts related to developing marketing strategies and plans, including market opportunity analysis, strategic planning processes, defining strategic business units, SWOT analysis, contents of a marketing plan, value creation processes, and Porter's generic strategies. Key topics covered are identifying market opportunities, conducting situational analysis, setting goals and objectives, developing marketing strategies, creating value for customers, and forms of strategic alliances.
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The document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers topics such as strategic planning at different organizational levels, the marketing plan components, and value creation for customers. Specifically, it examines how strategic planning is carried out from the corporate headquarters level down to individual business units. It also provides details on the typical contents of a marketing plan, including an executive summary, situation analysis, and financial projections.
The document discusses developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers several key topics:
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3. The typical contents of a marketing plan, including an executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financial projections, and implementation controls. Evaluating whether a plan is simple, specific, realistic and complete.
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This document discusses competitiveness, strategy, and productivity. It defines key terms like competitiveness, strategy, tactics, and operations strategy. It explains that organizations compete through marketing and operations functions. Poor competitiveness can result from too much short-term focus, neglecting operations strategy, or failing to meet customer needs. Strategy involves achieving organizational goals through strategic plans, while tactics are the specific actions. Linking organizational and operations strategy is important. Time-based and quality-focused strategies are discussed as ways to improve competitiveness.
This document discusses competitiveness, strategy, and productivity. It defines key terms like competitiveness, strategy, tactics, and operations strategy. It explains that organizations compete through marketing and operations functions. Poor competitiveness can result from too much short-term focus, neglecting operations strategy, or failing to meet customer needs. Strategy involves achieving organizational goals through strategic plans, while tactics are the specific actions. Linking organizational and operations strategy is important. Time-based and quality-focused strategies are discussed as ways to improve competitiveness.
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The document discusses various aspects of developing marketing strategies and plans. It covers topics such as value creation and delivery, core business processes, strategic planning, SWOT analysis, goal formulation, and strategy formulation. The key aspects of a marketing plan are also reviewed, including what should be included at the strategic and tactical levels. Various growth opportunities for businesses are examined, including intensive, integrative, and diversification opportunities.
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This document contains information about key elements of a marketing plan, including a mission statement, SWOT analysis, goal setting, strategy formulation, and budgets/forecasts. It discusses the importance of defining goals and strategies to achieve them. SWOT involves analyzing internal strengths/weaknesses and external opportunities/threats. The strategy section outlines Porter's three generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. It also discusses strategic alliances between companies. Budgeting puts costs and expected returns in financial terms for the plan period and beyond. Feedback allows course correction and plan revision as needed.
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As we advance further into the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, shaping various industries and aspects of our daily lives. The advancements in AI for 2024 promise significant transformations across multiple sectors. From agentic AI and open-source AI to AI-powered cybersecurity and sustainability, these trends highlight the growing influence of AI on our world. By staying informed and embracing these trends, businesses and individuals can harness the power of AI to innovate and thrive.
This article explores the top 10 AI trends to watch in 2024, providing an overview, impact, and examples of each trend.
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Trend 1: Agentic AI
Overview of Agentic AI
Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence. These AI systems are designed to comprehend complex workflows and pursue difficult objectives autonomously, with minimal human assistance. Essentially, agentic AI functions similarly to human employees, understanding intricate contexts and instructions in normal language, defining goals, deducing subtasks, and adapting actions to changing circumstances.
Impact of Agentic AI
Agentic AI has the potential to drastically alter organizational roles, procedures, and relationships. AI assistants with advanced thinking and planning capabilities can perform tasks previously managed by humans. This shift enhances productivity by fully automating complex processes, freeing workers from repetitive tasks to focus on more critical activities. The ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances ensures continuous operational improvements.
Examples and Use Cases of Agentic AI
Autonomous Vehicles: Self-driving cars use agentic AI to navigate roads, interpret traffic signals, and make real-time decisions to ensure passenger safety.
Smart Home Devices: AI-powered home assistants, like smart thermostats and security systems, operate autonomously to optimize energy usage and enhance security.
Customer Service Bots: Advanced chatbots handle complex customer queries, provide solutions, and escalate issues to human agents when necessary.
Trend 2: Open Source AI
Overview of Open Source AI
Open-source AI involves freely available source code, encouraging developers to collaborate, use, adapt, and share AI technology. This openness fosters innovation and speeds up the development of practical AI solutions across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, and education.
Impact of Open Source AI
The collaborative nature of open-source AI promotes transparency and facilitates continuous improvement, leading to feature-rich, reliable, and modular solutions. These platforms enable the creation of applications such as real-time fraud detection, medical image analysis, personalized recommendations, and customized learning experiences.
Examples and Use Cases of Open Source AI
TensorFlow: An open-source machine learning framework by Google, widely used for building and deploying AI models.
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This paper explores the diverse landscape of marketing software, examining its pivotal role in modern marketing strategies. It provides a comprehensive overview of various types of marketing software tools and platforms essential for enhancing efficiency, optimizing campaigns, and achieving business objectives. Key categories discussed include email marketing software, social media management tools, content management systems (CMS), customer relationship management (CRM) software, search engine optimization (SEO) tools, and marketing automation platforms.
The paper delves into the functionalities, benefits, and examples of each type of software, highlighting their unique contributions to effective marketing practices. It explores the importance of integration and automation in maximizing the impact of these tools, addressing challenges and strategies for seamless implementation across different marketing channels.
Furthermore, the paper examines emerging trends in marketing software, such as AI and machine learning applications, personalization strategies, predictive analytics, and the ethical considerations surrounding data privacy and consumer rights. Case studies illustrate real-world applications and success stories of businesses leveraging marketing software to achieve significant outcomes in their marketing campaigns.
In conclusion, this paper provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of marketing technology, emphasizing the transformative potential of software solutions in driving innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage in today's dynamic marketplace.
This description outlines the scope, structure, and focus of the paper, giving readers a clear understanding of what to expect and why the topic of marketing software is important and relevant in contemporary marketing practices.
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Competitive Analysis: Noise Smartwatch
Overview
Noise is an Indian electronics brand that primarily manufactures smartwatches, wireless earphones, and other electronic accessories. Noise smartwatches have gained significant popularity due to their affordable pricing, feature-rich offerings, and stylish designs. The competitive landscape for Noise smartwatches includes both local and international brands that cater to various market segments. This analysis will focus on key competitors, market positioning, product features, pricing strategies, and consumer preferences.
Key Competitors
Amazfit (Huami):
Strengths: Known for excellent battery life, robust fitness tracking, and premium build quality.
Weaknesses: Slightly higher price points compared to Noise.
Products: Amazfit Bip U, Amazfit GTS series.
Realme:
Strengths: Strong brand presence, integration with Realme smartphones, and aggressive pricing.
Weaknesses: Limited variety in smartwatch models.
Products: Realme Watch, Realme Watch S.
Boat:
Strengths: Competitive pricing, appealing designs, and extensive marketing.
Weaknesses: Relatively new to the smartwatch market, which may affect consumer trust.
Products: Boat Storm, Boat Flash.
Samsung:
Strengths: High brand credibility, advanced features, and premium design.
Weaknesses: Higher price points make it less accessible to budget-conscious consumers.
Products: Galaxy Watch Active 2, Galaxy Watch 3.
Xiaomi:
Strengths: Strong ecosystem integration, affordable pricing, and extensive features.
Weaknesses: Less focus on premium design compared to some competitors.
Products: Mi Band series, Mi Watch.
Market Positioning
Noise positions itself as an affordable yet feature-rich alternative in the smartwatch market. Its target demographic includes budget-conscious consumers and fitness enthusiasts who seek value for money without compromising on essential features like fitness tracking, notifications, and battery life. Noise leverages its strong online presence and partnerships with e-commerce platforms to reach its audience effectively.
Product Features Comparison
Noise Smartwatches:
Key Features: Heart rate monitoring, SpO2 tracking, multiple sports modes, customizable watch faces, notifications, and music control.
Battery Life: Typically lasts 7-10 days on a single charge.
Build Quality: Focus on lightweight and comfortable designs with water-resistant capabilities.
Amazfit Smartwatches:
Key Features: Advanced fitness tracking, GPS, AMOLED displays, and long battery life (up to 20 days).
Battery Life: 10-20 days depending on the model.
Build Quality: Premium materials and durable designs.
Realme Smartwatches:
Key Features: Basic fitness tracking, SpO2 monitoring, and notifications.
Battery Life: Up to 9 days.
Build Quality: Sleek designs but slightly limited in variety.
Boat Smartwatches:
Key Features: Heart rate monitoring, multiple sports modes, and customizable watch faces.
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This chapter begins by examining some of the strategic marketing implications in creating customer value. We’ll look at several perspectives on planning and describe how to draw up a formal marketing plan. Through the chapter, we’ll address the three questions listed in the slide.
We can divide the value creation and delivery sequence into the following phases: First, assessing market opportunities and customer value, which involves environment scanning and developing insights about customer needs, wants, and motives. Second, choosing the value includes critical decisions pertaining to segmenting, targeting, positioning, and branding, which is the essence of strategic marketing. Third, designing value relates to decisions involving product/service strategy, new offerings, and pricing. Fourth, delivering value focuses on distribution and access issues. Fifth, communicating value through integrated marketing communication, choosing among the various choices in mass and personalized media. Finally, the value so created needs to be grown and sustained through globalization and holistic marketing organization. So, the value creation and delivery process begins much before there is a product/service and continues through development and after launch.
Harvard’s Michael Porter has proposed the value chain as a tool for identifying ways to create more customer value. According to this model, every firm is a synthesis of activities performed to design, produce, market, deliver, and support its product. The value chain identifies nine strategically relevant activities—five primary and four support activities—that create value and cost in a specific business. The primary activities are (1) inbound logistics, or bringing materials into the business; (2) operations, or converting materials into final products; (3) outbound logistics, or shipping out final products; (4) marketing, which includes sales; and (5) service. Specialized departments handle the support activities—(1) procurement, (2) technology development, (3) human resource management, and (4) firm infrastructure. (Infrastructure covers the costs of general management, planning, finance, accounting, legal, and government affairs.)
The firm’s success depends not only on how well each department performs its work, but also on how well the company coordinates departmental activities to conduct core business processes.
These processes include:
• The market-sensing process which refers to all the activities in gathering and acting upon information about the market.
• The new-offering realization process which is all the activities in researching, developing, and launching new high-quality offerings quickly and within budget.
• The customer acquisition process which entails all the activities in defining target markets and prospecting for new customers.
• The customer relationship management process which entails all the activities in building deeper understanding, relationships, and offerings to individual customers.
• The fulfillment management process which includes all the activities in receiving and approving orders, shipping the goods on time, and collecting payment.
To be successful, a firm also needs to look for competitive advantages beyond its own operations, into the value chains of suppliers, distributors, and customers. Many companies today have partnered with specific suppliers and distributors to create a superior value delivery network, also called a supply chain.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Has been working with its suppliers on an ongoing basis to keep them abreast of the global quality levels, without offering direct financial assistance.
The key, then, is to own and nurture the resources and competencies that make up the essence of the business. Many textile, chemical, and computer/electronic product firms do not manufacture their own products because offshore manufacturers are more competent in this task. Instead, they focus on product design and development and marketing, their core competencies. A core competency has three characteristics: (1) It is a source of competitive advantage and makes a significant contribution to perceived customer benefits. (2) It has applications in a wide variety of markets. (3) It is difficult for competitors to imitate.
Business realignment may be necessary to maximize core competencies. It has three steps: (1) (re)defining the business concept or “big idea”, (2) (re)shaping the business scope, and (3) (re)positioning the company’s brand identity.
Godrej & Boyce realigned its furniture business to target the home segment, with successful results.
Holistic marketers succeed by managing a superior value chain that delivers a high level of product quality, service, and speed. They achieve profitable growth by expanding customer share, building customer loyalty, and capturing customer lifetime value.
Holistic marketers address three key management questions:
1. Value exploration—How a company identifies new value opportunities
2. Value creation—How a company efficiently creates more promising new value offerings
3. Value delivery—How a company uses its capabilities and infrastructure to deliver the new value offerings more efficiently
To ensure they select and execute the right activities, marketers must give priority to strategic planning in three key areas: (1) managing a company’s businesses as an investment portfolio, (2) assessing each business’s strength by considering the market’s growth rate and the company’s position and fit in that market, and (3) establishing a strategy. The company must develop a game plan for achieving each business’s long-run objectives.
Most large companies consist of four organizational levels: (1) corporate, (2) division, (3) business unit, and (4) product. Corporate headquarters is responsible for designing a corporate strategic plan to guide the whole enterprise; it makes decisions on the amount of resources to allocate to each division, as well as on which businesses to start or eliminate. Each division establishes a plan covering the allocation of funds to each business unit within the division. Each business unit develops a strategic plan to carry that business unit into a profitable future. Finally, each product level (product line, brand) develops a marketing plan for achieving its objectives.
Only a small group of companies stand out over time as master marketers as shown in Table 2.1.
The marketing plan is the central instrument for directing and coordinating the marketing effort. It operates at two levels: strategic and tactical. The strategic marketing plan lays out the target markets and the firm’s value proposition, based on an analysis of the best market opportunities. The tactical marketing plan specifies the marketing tactics, including product features, promotion, merchandising, pricing, sales channels, and service.
The marketing plan is the central instrument for directing and coordinating the marketing effort. It operates at two levels: strategic and tactical. The strategic marketing plan lays out the target markets and the firm’s value proposition, based on an analysis of the best market opportunities.
The tactical marketing plan specifies the marketing tactics, including product features, promotion, merchandising, pricing, sales channels, and service.
Some corporations give their business units freedom to set their own sales and profit goals and strategies. Others set goals for their business units but let them develop their own strategies.
Still others set the goals and participate in developing individual business unit strategies.
All corporate headquarters undertake four planning activities which are identified in the slide. We’ll discuss each more as we move forward.
To define its mission, a company should address Peter Drucker’s classic questions: What is our business? Who is the customer? What is of value to the customer? What will our business be? What should our business be? These simple-sounding questions are among the most difficult a company will ever have to answer. Successful companies continuously raise and answer them.
Organizations develop mission statements to share with managers, employees, and (in many cases) customers. A clear, thoughtful mission statement provides a shared sense of purpose, direction, and opportunity.
In Table 2.2, the major areas with which companies can define competitive territories in their mission statements are reviewed.
Companies often define themselves in terms of products: They are in the “auto business” or the “clothing business.” Market definitions of a business, however, describe the business as a customer satisfying process.
Transportation is a need: the horse and carriage, automobile, railroad, airline, ship, and truck are products that meet that need.
Viewing businesses in terms of customer needs can suggest additional growth opportunities. Table 2.3 lists companies that have moved from a product to a market definition of their business. It highlights the difference between a target market definition and a strategic market definition.
A business can define itself in terms of three dimensions: customer groups, customer needs, and technology. Consider a small company that defines its business as designing incandescent lighting systems for television studios. Its customer group is television studios; the customer need is lighting; the technology is incandescent lighting. The company might want to expand to make lighting for homes, factories, and offices, or it could supply other services television studios need, such as heating, ventilation, or air conditioning.
Large companies normally manage quite different businesses, each requiring its own strategy. At one time, General Electric classified its businesses into 49 strategic business units (SBUs). An SBU has three characteristics, as listed in the slide.
Assessing growth opportunities includes planning new businesses, downsizing, and terminating older businesses. If there is a gap between future desired sales and projected sales, corporate management will need to develop or acquire new businesses to fill it.
Figure 2.2 illustrates this strategic-planning gap for a major manufacturer of blank compact disks called Musicale (name disguised). The lowest curve projects the expected sales over the next five years from the current business portfolio. The highest describes desired sales over the same period. Evidently, the company wants to grow much faster than its current businesses will permit.
How can it fill the strategic-planning gap? The first option is to identify opportunities for growth within current businesses (intensive opportunities). The second is to identify opportunities to build or acquire businesses related to current businesses (integrative opportunities). The third is to identify opportunities to add attractive unrelated businesses (diversification opportunities).
Strategic planning happens within the context of the organization. A company’s organization consists of its structures, policies, and corporate culture, all of which can become dysfunctional in a rapidly changing business environment. Whereas managers can change structures and policies (though with difficulty), the company’s culture is very hard to change. Yet adapting the culture is often the key to successfully implementing a new strategy.
What exactly is a corporate culture? Some define it as “the shared experiences, stories, beliefs, and norms that characterize an organization.” Walk into any company and the first thing that strikes you is the corporate culture—the way people dress, talk to one another, and greet customers.
The business unit strategic-planning process consists of the steps shown in Figure 2.3.. Each business unit needs to define its specific mission within the broader company mission. The overall evaluation of a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats is called SWOT analysis. It’s a way of monitoring the external and internal marketing environment. Once the company has performed a SWOT analysis, it can proceed to goal formulation, developing specific goals for the planning period. Goals are objectives that are specific with respect to magnitude and time. Goals indicate what a business unit wants to achieve; strategy is a game plan for getting there. Every business must design a strategy for achieving its goals, consisting of a marketing strategy and a compatible technology strategy and sourcing strategy. Even a great marketing strategy can be sabotaged by poor implementation. If the unit has decided to attain technological leadership, it must strengthen its R&D department, gather technological intelligence, develop leading-edge products, train its technical sales force, and communicate its technological leadership. Once they have formulated marketing programs, marketers must estimate their costs.
The overall evaluation of a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats is called SWOT analysis. It’s a way of monitoring the external and internal marketing environment.
To evaluate opportunities, companies can use market opportunity analysis (MOA) to ask questions like those posed on this slide and the next one.
By using the SWOT analysis and market opportunity analysis, we can create opportunity and threat matrices.
In the opportunity matrix in Figure 2.4 (a), the best marketing opportunities facing the TV-lighting-equipment company appear in the upper-left cell (#1). The opportunities in the lower-right cell (#4) are too minor to consider. The opportunities in the upper-right cell (#2) and the lower-left cell (#3) are worth monitoring in the event that any improve in attractiveness and potential.
Most business units pursue a mix of objectives, including profitability, sales growth, market share improvement, risk containment, innovation, and reputation. The business unit sets these objectives and then manages by objectives (MBO). For an MBO system to work, the unit’s objectives must meet four criteria as shown in the slide.
Michael Porter has proposed three generic strategies that provide a good starting point for strategic thinking: overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
With overall cost leadership, firms work to achieve the lowest production and distribution costs so they can underprice competitors and win market share.
With differentiation, the business concentrates on achieving superior performance in an important customer benefit area valued by a large part of the market.
With focus, the business focuses on one or more narrow market segments, gets to know them intimately, and pursues either cost leadership or differentiation within the target segment.
Even giant companies often cannot achieve leadership, either nationally or globally, without forming alliances with domestic or multinational companies that complement or leverage their capabilities and resources.
Many strategic alliances take the form of marketing alliances. These fall into four major categories.
Product or service alliances—One company licenses another to produce its product, or two companies jointly market their complementary products or a new product.
Promotional alliances—One company agrees to carry a promotion for another company’s product or service.
Logistics alliances—One company offers logistical services for another company’s product.
Pricing collaborations—One or more companies join in a special pricing collaboration.
According to McKinsey & Company, strategy is only one of seven elements—all of which start with the letter s—in successful business practice.41 The first three—strategy, structure, and systems—are considered the “hardware” of success. The next four—style, skills, staff, and shared values—are the “software.” The first “soft” element, style, means company employees share a common way of thinking and behaving. The second, skills, means employees have the skills needed to carry out the company’s strategy. Staffing means the company has hired able people, trained them well, and assigned them to the right jobs. The fourth element, shared values, means employees share the same guiding values. When these elements are present, companies are usually more successful at strategy implementation.
Although the exact length and layout varies from company to company, most marketing plans cover one year in anywhere from 5 to 50 pages. Smaller businesses may create shorter or less formal marketing plans, whereas corporations generally require highly structured documents.
A marketing plan usually contains the sections listed in the slide.
In the Marketing Memo, these questions are suggested for evaluating the quality of the marketing plan.
In this chapter, we learned how to answer these questions.