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Marketing Test #1
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- 13 Types of StrategiesCorporate
Business
Functional - 2What must a strategy specify?What? (Objectives - e.g. profit +5%)
Where? (scope, target market)
How? (Resources, design activities) - 3A Corporate level strategy must identify...?1. What business(es) are we in?
2. What business(es) should we be in?
3. What portion of our total resources should we devote to each SBU? - 4A Business level strategy must identify....?1. Sustainable competitive advantage
2. Appropriate scope - 5A functional level strategy must identify...?1. How to allocate resources
2. What objectives to achieve - 65 considerations for a Marketing Strategy1. Target customers
2. Company's internal factors
3. Product life-cycle
4. Situational factors (i.e. now and future new trends)
5. Competitors - 7A marketing plan is ...?A set of Predictive Actions to achieve the Specific Objectives
- 8Predictive Actions are set based on the current situations of the....?1. Customers
2. Competitors
3. External/Internal environment - 99 contents of a Marketing Plan1. Executive summary
2. Current situation and trends
3. Performance review
4. Objectives
5. Marketing strategy
6. Action plans
7. Projected profit-and-loss statement
8. Controls
9. Contingency plans - 10What is a contingency plan? (in the context of a marketing plan)An alternative plan
- 11What are controls used for? (in the context of a marketing plan)Monitoring the progress of the plan
- 12What is an action plan? (in the context of a marketing plan)A set of detailed marketing activities and a plan of implementation of proposed activities
- 13Contents of an Annual Marketing Plan? (there are 3)1. Analysis of current situation and trends
2. Objectives (financial & marketing)
3. Marketing Strategies - 14True / False The strength marketing has on influencing decisions does not vary across organizationsFalse.
Strength of its influence DOES vary across organizations - 15What is the purpose of a marketing strategy within a company1. Influences R&D
2. Capable of connecting with customers
3. Can satisfy customer needs
note: strength of influence can vary by company - 16The single most important measure of performance is...?Profitability Analysis
- 17What is the control process for measuring performance1. Setting standards of performance
2. Specifying necessary feedback data
3. Obtaining needed data
4. Evaluating data - explain gaps in actual and given standards of performance
5. Taking corrective action
Repeat - 18#1 How do you set standards for performance?1. Benchmarking
2. Profitability analysis
3. Marketing Dashboard - 19What is Benchmarking?A comparison of ones own company's performance against the performances of other companies
- 20What is a marketing dashboard?Visual display of essential information through a few metrics
i.e. profits, sales, demographics etc. - 21#2 & #3 How do you specify and obtain necessary feedback data?Develop a system to obtain feedback data through invoice data, market research and/or other transaction records
- 22#4 & #5 How do you evaluate Feedback Data and take Corrective Action?Analyze data and find any deviations from plan. Solve for "why?".
Once solution is had, take corrective action, activate contingency plan - 23Mission statements focus on...?1. The customers need to be satisfied
2. The functions that must be performed to satisfy that need
3. Not the product or technology itself - 246 Components of a corporate strategy1. Scope
2. Objectives
3. Competitive advantage
4. Future growth strategy
5. Resource allocation
6. Source of synergy - 25#2 Components of an Objective1. A performance dimension or attribute sought (goal)
2. Measure or index
3. Time frame for the objective to be accomplished - 26#3 7 sources of a competitive advantage1. Highly developed information systems
2. Extensive market research operations
3. Cooperative long-term relationship with customers
4. A strong brand name
5. Cooperative alliance with suppliers or distributors
6. Enhance efficiency
7. A body of satisfied and loyal customers - 27#6 Sources of Synergy1. Corporate identity and brand
2. Synergy from shared resources - 28#5 Resource Allocation
- 29#4 Future Growth Strategy
- 30SBU stands forStrategic Business Unit
- 31What are SBU's?Components of a firm engaged in its own vision and direction.
- 324 characteristics of SBUs1. Own competitors and market environment
2. Unique set of product-markets
3. Responsibility for their own profitability
4. Has control over factors necessary for successful performance - 33Michael Porter three strategies1. Overall cost leadership
2. Differentiation
3. Focus - 34Robert Miles and Charles Snow 4 strategiesProspector
Defender
Analyzers
Reactors - 35Prospector StrategyActively expands into new markets and stimulates new opportunities
- 36Analyzer StrategyTakes less risk and makes less mistakes than a prospector, but is less committed to stability than defenders
- 37Defender StrategyFinds and maintains a secure and relatively stable market, avoids changes wherever possible
- 38Reactor StrategyDoes not have proactive strategy, often reacts to events as they occur, goes without direction or focus
- 396 factors that affect market attractivenessDemographic
Sociocultural
Economic
Regulatory
Technological
Natural - 40Market opportunities are attractive when...1. Target customers are clearly identified
2. The target segment is likely to grow - 414 forces that affect Industry attractiveness1. Threat of new entrants
2. Threat of substitutions
3. Power of suppliers
4. Power of buyers - 42Industry opportunities are attractive when companies...1. Have sustainable competitive advantage
2. Have a good team
3. Business model is economically viable - 43Evidence-based forecast is...Data that is used to make sound decision
- 442 types of data (in the context of evidence-based forcasting)Primary Data
Secondary Data - 45What is primary data?To gain new knowledge
- 46How to acquire primary data?1. Observations
2. Surveys
3. Focus groups - 47What is secondary data?To acquire existing knowledge from internal or external data
- 48What is external data? (in the context of secondary data)Data from external sources such as journals, government staistics etc.
- 49What is internal data? (in the context of secondary data)Data from internal sources such as market knowledge systems, internal sales stats etc.
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