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International Marketing

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1. Corporate strategic planning Company's growth strategies

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Agenda orientations toward marketplace  creating the strategy (the procedure, elements and key frameworks)  intensive growth strategies, integrative growth strategies, diversification strategies



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THE MARKETING CONCEPT

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Defining marketing 

Marketing is a societal process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering, and freely exchanging products and services of value with others.

Marketing Management -1 

Marketing management is art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value.

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Marketing Management -2 The marketing management - is a delicate balance of creativity and structure/formal procedures.

Principles of Marketing  





Customer needs and wants Market information as a basis of decisions Integrated marketing activities and tools Customer satisfaction creation

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Marketing Mix 7P’s or 7C’s? Organizational perspective  product  price  place  promotion  physical evidence  people  process

Customer perspective • customer value • cost • convenience • communication • confirmation • consideration • co-ordination and concern

Marketing Management The marketing management consists of:   



analyzing market situation designing marketing strategies implementing and organizing the marketing effort controlling marketing performance

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COMPANY’S ORIENTATIONS TOWARD THE MARKETPLACE 11

Company orientations toward the marketplace - 1      

Production concept Product concept Selling concept Marketing concept Customer concept Societal marketing concept

Source: P. Kotler (2003). Marketing Management, 11th, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, p. 17.

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Company orientations toward the marketplace – 2 Concepts

Starting point

Focus

Means

Ends

Production

Factory

Widely available and inexpensive products

High production efficiency Low cost Mass distribution

Profits through volume and low cost

Product

Factory

Superior products

Making superior products and improving them over time

Profits through high quality product

Selling

Factory

Products

Aggressive selling and promotions

Profits through sales volume

Marketing

Target market

Customer needs

Integrated marketing

Profits through customer satisfaction

Customer

Individual customer

Customer needs and value

One-to-one marketing Integration and value chain

Profits through capturing customer share, loyalty, and lifetime value

Societal marketing

Best long-run interests customer and society

Customer needs, customer interests, and long-run societal welfare

Integrated marketing and education customer

Profits through customer satisfaction and society’s well-being

Source: own preparation based on: P. Kotler (2003). Marketing Management, 11th, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, p. 17-27.

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Corporate Strategic Planning 

defining the corporate mission (vision)



establishing SBU



assigning resources to each SBU



planning new business, downsizing & terminating older businesses

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Mission & Objectives

Mission 

 





describes the organisation’s basic function in society explains why the company exists provides the commercial logic for the company needs to be converted into everyday performance is a cultural glue that enables the organisation to function as a unity

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Corporate Mission - Fundamental Questions 

What is our business?



Who is the customer?



What is of value to our customer?



What will our business be?



What should our business be?

Infuences on the mission statement 

company’s history



preferences, values and expectations of managers & owners



environmental factors



available resources



distinctive competences

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Workable mission 

brief – easy to understand and remember



flexible – to accomodate change



distinctive – to make the firm stand out

Mission or/and vision 







vision gives general sense of direction to the company, is the orientation point that guides the company vision ignores real. practical problems, vision can degenerate to wishful thinking mission is about here and now, vision refers to the future, mission is designed to motivate, vision – not!

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Objectives S Specific - descriptive, succinct and provide clarity throughout the organization as to what is to be achieved M Measurable - clearly state tangible targets that can be measured in the future A Aspirational - challenging but achievable, motivational R Realistic - based on sound market analysis, financial, human & physical resources should underpin the objectives T Timebound - a timescale should be set against the achievment of each objective in order for performance measurement to be undertaken

Objectives hierarchy Corporate objectives – increase profits Production objectives – cut costs

Personnel objectives – reduce headcount

Marketing obejctives – increase revenue

Objectives for the mix

Product (10% of revenue )

Price (skimming)

Promotion (recall)

Place (coverage)

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Marketing Objectives e.g.         

rate of return on investment net profits cash flow total sales revenue sales volume market share consumer awareness number of distribution outlets average realized price

SBU Defining

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SBU - Main Characteristics 

SBU is a pasrt of the company that for all intents and purposes has its own distinct products, markets and assets



single business (or collection of related businesses) that can be planned separately from the rest of company



has its own competitors



has its own manager.......

Analysing the Product Portfolio

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Portfolio Evaluation Frameworks 

BCG’s Growth Share Matrix



GE Multifactor Matrix



Shell Directional Policy Matrix

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Abell & Hammond’s Investment Opportunity Matrix



Arthur D. Little Strategic Condition Matrix

BCG’s Growth Share Matrix (traditional approach) 100 % Question marks

Stars

Market growth 10 % rate Cash cows 0% 1x

Dogs

O,5 x

0x

Relative market share

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Taking a Portfolio Approach 

analysis based around evaluating SBU activities



models help you think strategically about the business and its resources and provide analytical frameworks. But:       

they are over-simplified cannot incorporate ‘risk’ often offer misleading representations of strategic options use over generous measures assume market leadership = benefit ignores market ‘inching’ ignores competitive strategic factors

Determinants of market attractiveness 

Market factors (eg size, growth)



Competitors



Investment factors



Technological change



Other factors

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BCG’s Growth Share Matrix (practical approach) 100 Question marks

Stars

Dogs

Cash cows

Market 50 attractiveness

0 0

50

100

Competitive position

References 





 

Armstrong G., P. Kotler: Marketing. Wprowadzenie, Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2012 Gilian C., R. Wilson, Strategic Marketing Management. Planning, impementatiom and control, Butterworth Heinemann, 1999 Kotler P. Marketing Management. Eleventh Ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 2003 Porter M., Competitive Advantage, 1998 Strategic Marketing Management: Planning and Control, BPP Professional Education, 2003

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Gap Analysis 

Diagrammatical approach to viewing the difference between: 

Where we are going? (in the current way)



Where we want to be? (targets for achievement)

Gap Analysis Desired sales Diversification growth Integrative growth Sales

The planning gap

Intensive growth

Current portfolio

Time

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Intensive Growth Ansoff’s Product - Market Matrix Product Current

Current

Market penetration strategy

New

Product development strategy

Market

Market development strategy

New

(diversification strategy)

Intensive Growth Strategies



market penetration strategy



market development strategy



product development strategy

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Market penetration strategy 

more purchasing and usage form existing customers



gain customers form competitors



convert non-users into users

Market development strategy 

new market segments



new distributiob chanells



new geographic areas

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Product development strategy 

product modifications via new features



different quality levels



‘new’ product

Integrative Growth Strategies 

Vertical integration (VMS) - backward - forward



Horizontal integration (HMS)

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Diversification Growth Strategies 

concentric diversification



horizontal diversification



conglomerate (lateral) diversification

Consolidation strategies 

Deinwestment



De(z)integration



Prunning



Reduction



Harvesting

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References 





Armstrong G., P. Kotler: Marketing. Wprowadzenie, Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2012 Kotler P. Marketing Management. Eleventh Ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 2003 Strategic Marketing Management: Planning and Control, BPP Professional Education, 2003

Case study

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