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What is the primary role of marketing in the strategic process?
What is the primary role of marketing in the strategic process?
Which element is essential for creating a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)?
Which element is essential for creating a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)?
In the context of the customer value proposition, what is crucial for it to be effective?
In the context of the customer value proposition, what is crucial for it to be effective?
What is the purpose of the Ansoff Matrix in strategic marketing?
What is the purpose of the Ansoff Matrix in strategic marketing?
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Which of the following is NOT considered a strategic asset?
Which of the following is NOT considered a strategic asset?
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What is one key characteristic of a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)?
What is one key characteristic of a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)?
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What is one potential consequence of having weak links in a value chain?
What is one potential consequence of having weak links in a value chain?
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What does the term 'commoditization' refer to in the context of marketing?
What does the term 'commoditization' refer to in the context of marketing?
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Which of the following is NOT a current marketing challenge or opportunity mentioned in the text?
Which of the following is NOT a current marketing challenge or opportunity mentioned in the text?
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What is one key consideration for selecting a business strategy?
What is one key consideration for selecting a business strategy?
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What characteristic makes a business offering valuable to customers?
What characteristic makes a business offering valuable to customers?
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Which of the following statements about strategy is TRUE?
Which of the following statements about strategy is TRUE?
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Which of the following is a key factor that contributes to commoditization?
Which of the following is a key factor that contributes to commoditization?
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Flashcards
Marketing's Role in Strategy
Marketing's Role in Strategy
Marketing provides business intelligence, drives growth, and differentiates the brand by building customer equity.
Ansoff Matrix
Ansoff Matrix
A strategic tool to identify growth strategies by analyzing market penetration, product development, market development, and diversification.
Customer Value Proposition
Customer Value Proposition
The promise of value to be delivered, emphasizing benefits that are meaningful and sustainable over time.
Strategic Assets
Strategic Assets
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Competencies
Competencies
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Sustainable Competitive Advantages (SCA)
Sustainable Competitive Advantages (SCA)
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Leveraging Functional Areas
Leveraging Functional Areas
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Business Strategy Selection Criteria
Business Strategy Selection Criteria
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Perceived Customer Value
Perceived Customer Value
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Current Marketing Challenges
Current Marketing Challenges
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Commoditization
Commoditization
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Customer Power Shift
Customer Power Shift
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Importance of External Partnerships
Importance of External Partnerships
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Study Notes
Strategic Marketing
- Covers strategic analysis, process, marketing's role, and current challenges/opportunities.
- Includes a discussion of the Ansoff Matrix, value proposition, assets & competencies, and criteria for selecting business strategies.
What is Strategy?
- Understanding organizational structure, functional areas like sales, marketing, finance, and operations are crucial for strategic decisions.
- Shows a hierarchy of vision, mission, goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics
Strategic Analysis Process
- Involves external and internal analyses to identify opportunities, threats, strengths, weaknesses.
- This analysis shapes strategic outputs, which guide strategy development and implementation.
Marketing's Role in the Strategic Process
- Marketing plays a role as a crucial element that implements tactical elements of a strategy, providing business intelligence, and leading in building and maintaining brand equity.
- Marketers are often the first to notice developments in customer behaviour, shifting customer expectations, competitors and industry trends, etc., giving them an edge in the organization.
Current Marketing Challenges & Opportunities
- Customer power shift is a significant challenge. This includes increasing product selection and competition, media fragmentation and shifting value propositions.
- Privacy, security, and ethical concerns are prominent concerns for customer and business alike, making it hard for both parties.
- Commoditization is present in many mature industries requiring firms to adapt or innovate to develop a sustainable competitive advantage.
Discussion Questions
- Group discussions involve selecting an organization and considering how their vision and mission influenced their business strategy and marketing mix(es).
- Questions about the organization's adaptations to changes, competitive advantages, and success as well as factors that led to their success or failure.
- Analyzing customer power shifts within various markets is essential given that customer power continues to be a driver in challenging or changing the dynamics of business and marketing.
Value Proposition
- Involves customer benefits, promised benefits, and sustainability.
- Effective value propositions focus on customer and stakeholder needs.
- Attributes or features are not enough, instead, create beneficial and meaningful value to stakeholders.
Assets & Competencies
- Strategic assets include critical resources (financial, human, physical, legal, relationships, brand, knowledge).
- Competencies represent unique knowledge/processes that an organization excels at.
- Determining how strong assets/competencies are relative to competitors is crucial for success.
Characteristics of Sustainable Competitive Advantages (SCA)
- SCAs can add value for customers with rare traits and difficult to copy/mimic traits.
- SCAs are crucial to maintain long-term competitive advantage and sustainability.
Functional Area Strategies & Programs
- Leveraging strategies in other functional areas (like finance, HR) is key to achieving strategic goals.
- Weak links within an organization can hamper the value chain, thereby limiting the organization's ability to compete.
- Strong external partnerships help an organization better deliver and maintain its value proposition.
Criteria to Select Business Strategies
- Returning a reasonable return on investment is a basic condition for viable strategies.
- A sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) helps determine a strategy's value to stakeholders in the long term.
- Feasible strategies take the availability of resources in the organization into account.
- Compatibility of potential new strategy with the organization's existing strategy (synergy).
Strategy Value
- Customer value perceptions, costs, and risks influence strategy effectiveness.
- Customer perception of value changes as they gain more experience and competitors adapt/innovate.
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This quiz explores the essential aspects of strategic marketing, including the strategic analysis process, the significance of marketing in strategy implementation, and the Ansoff Matrix. Understand the role of marketing as it relates to organizational structures and business strategies through key concepts and frameworks.
