Companywide Strategic Planning:
DefiningMarketing’s Role
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.
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Defining a Market-OrientedMission
Mission statement: 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
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Setting Company Objectivesand Goals
• Business objectives
• Marketing objectives
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Designing the BusinessPortfolio
The business portfolio is the collection of businesses
and products that make up the company.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Analyzing the CurrentBusiness Portfolio
Analyzing the current business portfolio is the process
by which management evaluates the products and
businesses making up the company.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Developing Strategies forGrowth and Downsizing
The product/market expansion grid is a tool for
identifying company growth opportunities through
market penetration, market development, product
development, or diversification.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Developing Strategies forGrowth and
Downsizing
• Product/market expansion grid strategies
• Market penetration
• Market development
• Product development
• Diversification
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Defining Marketing’s Role
Developing Strategies forGrowth and Downsizing
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.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Developing Strategies forGrowth and Downsizing
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.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Developing Strategies forGrowth and Downsizing
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.
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Defining Marketing’s Role
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Marketing Strategy
A marketingstrategy is the marketing logic by which
the business unit hopes to achieve its marketing
objectives.
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Marketing Strategy and
the Marketing Mix
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Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Marketsegmentation 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.
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Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Amarket segment is a group of consumers who
respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing
efforts.
Target marketing is the process of evaluating each
market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one
or more segments to enter.
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the Marketing Mix
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Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy
Marketpositioning 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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the Marketing Mix
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Developing an IntegratedMarketing Mix
The 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.
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the Marketing Mix
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Developing an IntegratedMarketing Mix
The four Ps
• Product
• Price
• Place
• Promotion
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Developing an IntegratedMarketing Mix
The four Ps
Product is the goods and services in combination that the
company offers to the target market.
Price is the amount of money customers have to pay to obtain
the product.
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the Marketing Mix
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Developing an IntegratedMarketing Mix
The four Ps
Place is the company activities that make the product available
to target customers.
Promotion is the activities that communicate the merits of the
product and persuade target customers to buy it.
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the Marketing Mix
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theMarketing Mix
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The 4 Ps versus The 4 Cs
Product Customer solution
Price Customer cost
Place Convenience
Promotion Communication
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Managing the marketingeffort requires:
• Analysis, Planning, Implementing and Controlling
Managing the Marketing Effort
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Marketing Analysis
Marketing analysisis the complete analysis of the company’s
situation in a SWOT analysis that evaluates the company’s:
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
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Managing the Marketing
Effort
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Marketing Analysis
• Strengthsinclude internal capabilities, resources, and
positive situational factors that may help to serve company
customers and achieve company objectives.
• Weaknesses include internal limitations and negative
situational factors that may interfere with company
performance.
• Opportunities are favorable factors or trends in the
external environment that the company may be able to
exploit to its advantage.
• Threats are unfavorable factors or trends that
may present challenges to performance.
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Effort
Market Planning
Planning isthe development of strategic and marketing plans to
achieve company objectives.
Marketing strategy consists of the specific strategies for target
markets, positioning, the marketing mix, and marketing
expenditure levels.
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Effort
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Market Planning
Sections ofa marketing plan include:
• Executive summary
• Current marketing situation
• Threats and opportunities
• Objective and issues
• Action programs
• Budgets
• Controls
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Effort
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Marketing Implementation
• Implementingis 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.
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Managing the Marketing Effort
Marketing Department Organization
•Functional organization: This is the most common
form of marketing organization with different marketing
functions headed by a functional specialist.
• Marketing Manager
• Sales manager
• Market research manager
• Customer service manager
• New product manager
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Marketing Department Organization
Geographicorganization:
• Useful for companies that sell across the country or
internationally.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for a specific region.
Product management:
• Useful for companies with different products or brands.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for a specific product or band.
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Effort
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Marketing Department Organization
Marketor customer management organization:
• Useful for companies with one product line sold to many
different markets and customers.
• Managers are responsible for developing strategies and
plans for their specific markets or customers.
Customer management involves a customer focus and not a
product focus for managing customer profitability and
customer equity.
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Effort
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Marketing Control
• Controllingis measuring and evaluating results and taking
corrective action as needed.
• Operating control
• Strategic control
• Operating control involves checking ongoing performance
against annual plan and taking corrective action as needed.
• Strategic control involves looking at whether the company’s
basic strategies are well matched to its opportunities.
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Managing the Marketing Effort
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Return on MarketingInvestment (ROI)
Return on marketing investment (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.
Measuring and Managing Return on
Marketing Investment
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Customer-Centered Measures
• Customeracquisition
• Customer retention
• Customer lifetime value
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Measuring and Managing Return on
Marketing Investment