CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Marketing management is
the organizational discipline which focuses on the practical application
of marketing orientation, techniques and methods inside enterprises
and organizations and on the management of a firm's marketing resources and
activities. Globalization has led some firms to market beyond the borders
of their home countries, making international marketing a part of
those firms' marketing strategy. Marketing managers are often responsible
for influencing the level, timing, and composition of customer demand. In part,
this is because the role of a marketing manager (or sometimes called managing
marketer in small- and medium-sized enterprises) can vary significantly based
on a business's size, corporate culture, and industry context.
For example, in small- and medium-sized enterprises, the managing marketer may
contribute in both managerial and marketing operations roles for the company
brands. In a large consumer products company, the marketing manager may act as
the overall general manager of his or her assigned product. To
create an effective, cost-efficient marketing management strategy, firms must
possess a detailed, objective understanding of their own business and
the market in which they operate. In analysing these issues, the
discipline of marketing management often overlaps with the related discipline
of strategic planning. Marketing management employs various tools from economics and competitive
strategy to analyse the industry context in which the firm operates. These
include Porter's five forces, analysis of strategic groups of
competitors, value chain analysis and others. Depending on the
industry, the regulatory context may also be important to examine in
detail. In competitor analysis, marketers build detailed profiles of each
competitor in the market, focusing especially on their relative competitive
strengths and weaknesses using SWOT analysis. Marketing managers will
examine each competitor's cost structure, sources of profits, resources and
competencies, competitive positioning and product
differentiation, degree of vertical integration, historical responses to
industry developments, and other factors. Marketing management often finds it
necessary to invest in research to collect the data required to perform
accurate marketing analysis. As such, they often conduct market
research and marketing research to obtain this information.
Marketers employ a variety of techniques to conduct market research, but some
of the more common include: Qualitative marketing research, such as ⦁ focus
groups and various types of interviews Quantitative marketing research,
such as ⦁ statistical surveys Experimental techniques such
as ⦁ test markets Observational techniques such
as ⦁ ethnographic (on-site) observation Marketing
managers may also design and oversee various environmental
scanning and competitive intelligence processes to help identify
trends and inform the company's marketing analysis. A brand audit is a thorough
examination of a brand's current position in an industry compared to its
competitors and the examination of its effectiveness. When it comes to brand
auditing, five questions should be carefully examined and assessed. These five
questions are how well the business’ current brand strategy is working, what
are the company's established resource strengths and weaknesses, what are its
external opportunities and threats, how competitive are the business’ prices
and costs, how strong is the business’ competitive position in comparison to
its competitors, and what strategic issues are facing the business. Generally,
when a business is conducting a brand audit, the main goal is to uncover
business’ resource strengths, deficiencies, best market opportunities, outside
threats, future profitability, and its competitive standing in comparison to
existing competitors. A brand audit establishes the strategic elements needed
to improve brand position and competitive capabilities within the industry. Once
a brand is audited, any business that ends up with a strong financial
performance and market position is more likely than not to have a properly
conceived and effectively executed brand strategy. A brand audit examines
whether a business’ share of the market is increasing, decreasing, or stable.
It determines if the company’s margin of profit is improving, decreasing, and
how much it is in comparison to the profit margin of established competitors.
Additionally, a brand audit investigates trends in a business’ net profits, the
return on existing investments, and its established economic value. It
determines whether or not the business’ entire financial strength and credit
rating is improving or getting worse. This kind of audit also assesses a
business’ image and reputation with its customers. Furthermore, a brand audit
seeks to determine whether or not a business is perceived as an industry leader
in technology, offering product or service innovations, along with exceptional
customer service, among other relevant issues that customers use to decide on a
brand of preference. A brand audit usually focuses on a business’ strengths and
resource capabilities because these are the elements that enhance its
competitiveness. A business’ competitive strengths can exist in several forms.
Some of these forms include skilled or pertinent expertise, valuable physical
assets, valuable human assets, valuable organizational assets, valuable
intangible assets, competitive capabilities, achievements and attributes that
position the business into a competitive advantage, and alliances or
cooperative ventures. The basic concept of a brand audit is to determine
whether a business’ resource strengths are competitive assets or competitive
liabilities. This type of audit seeks to ensure that a business maintains a
distinctive competence that allows it to build and reinforce its competitive
advantage. What’s more, a successful brand audit seeks to establish what a
business capitalizes on best, its level of expertise, resource strengths, and
strongest competitive capabilities, while aiming to identify a business’
position and future performance.
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