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Strategic Planning
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The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capablities and its marketing opportunities
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Annual
Long Range Strategic Plan |
Types of plans
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-Defining the Company Mission
-Setting Company Objectives and Goals -Designing the Business Portfolio -Planning Marketing and other Functional strategies |
Steps in Strategic Planning
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Mission Statement
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A statement of the organization's purpose-what it wants to accomplish in the longer environment.
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Mission
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Reason for a firm's existence
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Objectives/goals
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An estimated result expected in the future.
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Business Portfolio
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The collection of businesses and products that make up the company.
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-Analyzing the Business Portfolio
-Assessment of the attractiveness of each SBU |
Steps in designing a business portfolio
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Portfolio Analysis
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The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company.
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Strategic Business Unit
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A unit of the company that has a separate mission and objectives and that can be planned independently from other company businesses.
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Growth Share Matrix
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A portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company's SBU in terms of its market growth rate and relative market share.
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Boston Consulting Group Approach
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Best known portfolio planning method.
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Star
Cash Cows Question Marks Dogs |
Four types of SBUs
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Star
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High growth, high share businesses or products
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Cash Cows
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Low growth, high share businesses or products.
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Question Marks
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Low share business units
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Dogs
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low growth, low share businesses and products
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Dogs
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low growth, low share businesses and products
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Product/Market Expansion Grid
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A portfolio planning tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development or diversification.
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-market penetration
-market development - product development -diversification |
Product/Market Expansion Grid elements
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Market penetration
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Company growth by increasing sales of current products to current market segments without changing the product.
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Market development
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company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.
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Product development
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Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments.
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Diversification
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Company growth through starting up or acquiring businesses outside the company's current products and markets.
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Downsizing
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reducing the business portfolio by eliminating products or businesses units that are not profitable or that no longer fit the company's overall strategy.
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- changes in the market environment
- Have reached maturity stage - Have entered market/product with little knowledge or experience -Products that with no superior values |
Reasons for abandoning products and markets
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Value Chain
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The series of internal departments that carry out value creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver and support firm's products.
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Value delivery network
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The network made up of the company, it's suppliers, it's distributors, and ultimately, it's customers who partner with each other to improve the performance of the entire system.
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Marketing Strategy
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The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable customer relationships.
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Marketing Mix
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the set of tactical marketing tools that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market.
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Market Segment
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A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts.
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Differentiation
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Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.
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Positioning
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Arranging for a product to occupy a clear,distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers
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SWOT Analysis
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An overall evaluation of the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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Marketing Planning
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involves deciding on marketing strategies that will help the company attain its overall strategic objectives.
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Marketing Implementation
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Turning marketing strategies. and plans into marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing objectives.
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Marketing Control
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Measuring and evaluating the results of marketing strategies and plans and taking corrective action to ensure that the objectives are achieved.
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Return on Marketing investment
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The net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment.
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Price
Promotion Place Product |
4 P's of Marketing Mix
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Analysis
Planning Implementation Control |
Management of Marketing
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Customer Solution
Customer cost convenience communication |
4 C's of Marketing
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Market Targeting
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The process of evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.
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