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Marketing Strategy. Chapter 6 Dell. Business Marketing. Topics Key Elements of Business Strategy SWOT Analysis The Five Forces of Competition Sustainable Competitive Advantage Firm Characteristics that enable Learning and Creation of Dynamic Strategies. Why A Strategy?
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Marketing Strategy Chapter 6 Dell
Business Marketing Topics • Key Elements of Business Strategy • SWOT Analysis • The Five Forces of Competition • Sustainable Competitive Advantage • Firm Characteristics that enable Learning and Creation of Dynamic Strategies
Why A Strategy? Elements of Business Strategy • Product Markets • Growth Options in the Marketplace [Ex. 6-1, p. 159] • Market Penetration • Product Development • Market Development • Diversification • Resources • Objectives and Plans
Elements of Business Strategy (cont.) • Additional Facets of a Stable of Businesses • Resource Allocation • Synergy • Final Words on Business Strategy • Elements of a Strategic Plan • Product markets served • Resource commitments • Objectives and plans for each functional area
Developing Strategy • The Process for Strategies [Ex. 6-2, pp. 163-165] • Situation Analysis • SWOT Analysis • Must be • Honest and objective • Broad in focus • Multiple time horizons • Perceptions from several individuals • Example of SWOT Analysis [Ex. 6-3, pp. 166-167] • SWOT Recap - Thorough look at organ.
Developing Strategy (cont.) • The Mission • Mission Statement [Sample statements, Ex. 6-4, p. 168] • Strategic Spectroscopy • Wants/Gets Grid [Ex. 6-5, p. 170] • Conceptual map [Ex. 6-6, p. 171] • Supply Chain Analysis [Ex. 6-7, p. 171]
Understanding Competitive Pressures • Five Forces of Competition [Ex. 6-8, p. 173] • Rivalry among firms in the industry • Powerful customers • Powerful suppliers • Threat of substitutes • Threat of potential entrants • Barriers to Entry [Ex.6-9, p. 175] • Barriers in Flux • Spotting and Defending against Potential Entrants
Strategic Implications of the Five Competitive Forces • Cautions and Limitations • Sustainable Advantage? [Ex. 6-10, p. 177] • Organizational Strengths • Superior stakeholder satisfaction • Strategic soothsaying • Positioning for speed • Positioning of surprise • Shifting the rules of competition • Signaling strategic intent • Simultaneous and sequential strategic thrusts
The Organizational Context for Competing • Organizational Types [Ex. 6-11, p. 180] • Prospector • Defender • Analyzer • Reactor • Market Orientation • Systematic gathering of information customers and competitors, present and potential • Systematic analysis of the information for the purpose of developing market knowledge • Systematic use of such knowledge to guide strategy recognition, understanding, creation, selection, implementation, and modification • Unique Character • Market Orientation Payoffs • Product vs. Service Orientation, Ex. 6-12, p. 182
Organizational Learning and Memory • What is Learning? • Managing Organizational LearningMultiplicative learning model [Ex. 6-13, p. 183] • Visionary Leadership • Target and Trajectory • Information and Value Systems • Creating and Striving • Execution