On the evening news you have just heard that the bond market has been
booming. Does this mean that interest rates will fall so that it is easier for you
to finance the purchase of a new computer system for your small retail business?
Will the economy improve in the future so that it is a good time t...
On the evening news you have just heard that the bond market has been
booming. Does this mean that interest rates will fall so that it is easier for you
to finance the purchase of a new computer system for your small retail business?
Will the economy improve in the future so that it is a good time to
build a new building or add to the one you are in? Should you try to raise
funds by issuing stocks or bonds, or instead go to the bank for a loan? If you
import goods from abroad, should you be concerned that they will become
more expensive?
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Chapter Two
Company and Marketing Strategy
Partnering to Build Customer
Relationships
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Company and Marketing Strategy
•Companywide Strategic Planning: Defining
Marketing’s Role
•Designing the Business Portfolio
•Planning Marketing: Partnering to Build Customer
Relationships
•Marketing Strategy and the Marketing Mix
•Managing the Marketing Effort
•Measuring and Managing Return on Marketing
Investment
Topic Outline
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the process of
developing and maintaining a strategic fit
between the organization’s goals and
capabilities and its changing marketing
opportunities
Strategic Planning
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Companywide Strategic Planning
•The mission statement is
the organization’s
purpose, what it wants to
accomplish in the larger
environment
•Market-oriented mission
statement defines the
business in terms of
satisfying basic customer
needs
Defining a Market-Oriented Mission
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Companywide Strategic Planning
The business portfolio is the collection of
businesses and products that make up the
company
Portfolio analysis is a major activity in
strategic planning whereby management
evaluates the products and businesses that
make up the company
Designing the Business Portfolio
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Strategic business unit (SBU) is a unit of the
company that has a separate mission and
objectives that can be planned separately
from other company businesses
•Company division
•Product line within a division
•Single product or brand
Analyzing the Current Business Portfolio
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Companywide Strategic Planning
•Difficulty in defining SBUs and measuring
market share and growth
•Time consuming
•Expensive
•Focus on current businesses, not future
planning
Problems with Matrix Approaches
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Product/market expansion grid is a tool for
identifying company growth opportunities
through market penetration, market
development, product development, or
diversification
Developing Strategies for Growth and Downsizing
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Market penetration is a growth strategy
increasing sales to current market segments
without changing the product
Market development is a growth strategy that
identifies and develops new market segments
for current products
Developing Strategies
for Growth and Downsizing
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Product development is a growth strategy
that offers new or modified products to
existing market segments
Diversification is a growth strategy through
starting up or acquiring businesses outside
the company’s current products and
markets
Developing Strategies
for Growth and Downsizing
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Companywide Strategic Planning
Downsizing is the reduction of the business
portfolio by eliminating products or
business units that are not profitable or
that no longer fit the company’s overall
strategy
Developing Strategies
for Growth and Downsizing
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Planning Marketing
Partnering to Build Customer Relationships
Value chain is a series of departments
that carry out value-creating activities
to design, produce, market, deliver, and
support a firm’s products
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Planning Marketing
Partnering to Build Customer Relationships
Value delivery network is made up of the
company, suppliers, distributors, and
ultimately customers who partner with each
other to improve performance of the entire
system
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Marketing Strategy and the
Marketing Mix
Market segmentation is the division of a
market into distinct groups of buyers who
have distinct needs, characteristics, or
behavior and who might require separate
products or marketing mixes
Market segment is a group of consumers who
respond in a similar way to a given set of
marketing efforts
Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
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Marketing Strategy and the
Marketing Mix
Market targeting is the process of evaluating
each market segment’s attractiveness and
selecting one or more segments to enter
Customer-Centered Marketing Strategy
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Marketing Strategy and the Marketing
Mix
Customer-Centered Marketing Strategy
Market positioning is the arranging for a
product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and
desirable place relative to competing
products in the minds of the target
consumer
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Marketing Strategy and the Marketing
Mix
Marketing mix is the set of controllable
tactical marketing tools—product, price,
place, and promotion—that the firm blends
to produce the response it wants in the
target market
Developing an Integrated Marketing Mix
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Managing the Marketing Effort
Implementing is the process that turns
marketing plans into marketing actions to
accomplish strategic marketing objectives
•Successful implementation depends on how
well the company blends its people,
organizational structure, decision and reward
system, and company culture into a cohesive
action plan that supports its strategies
Marketing Implementation
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Managing the Marketing Effort
•Controlling is the measurement and
evaluation of results and the taking of
corrective action as needed
•Operating control
•Strategic control
Marketing Control
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Measuring and Managing
Return on Marketing Investment
Return on Marketing Investment (Marketing ROI)
Return on marketing investment (Marketing
ROI) is the net return from a marketing
investment divided by the costs of the
marketing investment. Marketing ROI provides
a measurement of the profits generated by
investments in marketing activities.