The Marketing Concept and Process

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

The marketing concept has suffered in two ways:First, it has been established as optimal management philosophy when it is not necessarily so in all instances, andSecond, we can see many examples of poor marketing practice that have been adopted in the name of the marketing concept.

.It is time that we relearn the marketing concept.

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

The marketing conceptCustomer focus, profits, and integration of organizational efforts.

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

Customer orientationSatisfying its customers at a profitDetermining the needs and wants of target marketsDiscovering the wants of a target audience and then creating the goods and services to satisfy them

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

Kotlers social definition: Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others.

1 - *GoodsServicesExperiencesEventsPersonsPlacesPropertiesOrganizationsInformationIdeas

Many Things Can Be Marketed!The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

1 - *Needs, wants, and demandsMarketing offers: including products, services and experiences

Value and satisfaction Exchange, transactions and relationships MarketsCore Marketing ConceptsWhat is Marketing?

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

The conditions under which the marketing concept offers the proper guidance to the marketer:

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

To the extent that the organization relies on exchange as the means of obtaining compliance with organizations needs, we describe that organization as engaging in marketing. Strive to understand exchange partners and tailor offerings for them through what is called the marketing mix (Borden 1964).

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

it is important to recognize that under some circumstances, the production concept or the sales concept would be a more appropriate management philosophy for the organization than the marketing concept.Can you give some examples?

1 - *The Marketing Concept: What It Is and What It Is Not

.customers are not necessarily good sources of information about their needs a decade from now

sometimes customers have to learnabout new technologies, beliefs, andways of behaving

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaIn 1960, Theodore Levitt wrote "Marketing Myopia," a widely quoted and frequently reprinted Harvard Business Review article.Chapter eight in Theodore Levitt's book - The Marketing Imagination (New York: The Free Press, 1986).

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaWhat does the term marketing myopia means?What were the evidence and examples used to illustrate the notion of marketing myopia?How is the self-deceiving cycle related to marketing myopia? Is this notion of marketing myopia still valid today, and explain?

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaMarketing myopia was initially described as a firm's shortsightedness or narrowness when attempting to define its business. The key question what business are you in?

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaLevitt cites the railroads and Hollywood as examples of "industries that have been and are now endangering their futures by improperly defining their purposes." Their problem, he says, is they were "product-oriented instead of customer-oriented.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaWarning of the dangers of being product-oriented rather than customer-oriented - creating the Ford Edsel, New Coke or smokeless cigarettes, as it were, rather than products consumers wanted.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaAccording to Levitt, "the organization must learn to think of itself not as producing goods or services but as buying customers, as doing the things that will make people want to do business with it."

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaSince its publication, corporate leaders have moved from product-orientation toward market-orientation.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaCustomer orientation has also been considered as a type of marketing myopia.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaFirms overemphasize the satisfaction of customer wants and needs and as a result ignore competition.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaCompetitor orientation has been proposed as a replacement for the customer orientation; with this orientation, a firm's strategy is influenced by its competitors (Oxenfeldt and Moore, 1978).

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe marketing myopia described by Levitt has also evolved into a planning myopia

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaBusinesses need to take Levitt's idea to its ultimate end do not just sell a product, sell the solution to a problem.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaOil companies have followed that strategy by developing minimarts in service stations. Digital Equipment Corp. earned one-third of its $7 billion in revenue from computer maintenance services. General Motors Acceptance Corp. financial services accounted for $1 billion of the automaker's $4 billion in 1985 revenues, and Gerber Products is opening day care centers as well as acquiring baby-related product companies. By recognizing customer needs, these companies have used available corporate resources to enter nonmanufacturing segments of the market.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe marketing myopia to the world market

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaYves Doz, Jose Santos and Peter J. Williamson draw on some examples of companies that are major successes because they sought knowledge in other countries, such as Shiseido, the Japanese cosmetic company that looked to France to become once again a leading player. Little Scandinavian Nokia overtook Motorola in the early days of the mobile wars simply by monitoring the radar for emerging phenomena in markets around the world.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaInnovating using local knowledge, perfecting your product and service to meet the needs of customers in your home market, and benchmarking yourself against domestic competitors-each of these has become a high risk strategy.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaAfter all, cellular telephony had been invented in America-at Bell Laboratories, and Motorola was among the first to massproduce mobile telephones. So then, how did Nokia, a little-known upstart from the edge of the Arctic Circle leave Motorola behind and manage to become the global leader in mobile telephony? Nokia was the first to see the potential of a cellphone as a fashion accessory from observations of its customers in Asia.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaNokia has the ability to plug into knowledge about new technologies and emerging customer needs from every corner of the world. It understood the need for customised handsets from its experience in Europe, where it first became apparent that there were different segments of users. Observing pilot users across Scandinavia, it was among the first to recognise that digital technology could dramatically improve the functionality of mobile phones. And in China, India and Africa, it saw that mobile phones could potentially become substitute for wire-line phones.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaWhile Nokia prospected the world for insight about promising technologies, diverse customer behavior and new ways to use mobile phones, Motorola continued to develop its products based on its knowledge of the customers and technologies in its U.S. backyard.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe result: Motorola missed the shift to digital mobile telephony and the growing strength of the European GSM standard. It didn't see the potential to turn the phone into a fashion icon; it was slow to take on board the new ways mobiles were being used and to recognise that a broader, but more fragmented user base would spell the end of "one-size-fits-all" products. This myopic approach to competition, and the failure to engage fully with the rest of the world and capture the potential of global markets and the innovative ideas in them, would cost Motorola dearly.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe types of marketing myopia can be classified along two dimensions:

1. the management's definition of the firm, and 2. the firm's business environment perspective.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe second dimension concerns the firm's business environment perspective. In essence, these firms have an inward orientation toward that industry. Firms with a single-industry perspective are preoccupied with the actions and reactions of immediate competitors.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaIn addition, they are considered to have inbred management. Some managers have spent the greater part of their professional careers in one industry. Inbred management is not necessarily undesirable, but it is potentially detrimental when it fosters the contention that it can learn nothing from firms in other industries, and it keeps its firm perceptually insulated from such other firms. For example, managers of the cold breakfast cereal firm may be concerned only with the actions and reactions of other cold cereal firms.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaFirms with a multi-industry perspective, on the other hand, have a broader view of the market. While they are concerned with immediate competitors, they also realize that firms in other industries can serve as sources of innovative strategies as well as being potential competitors.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaSuch management is said to be cross-bred, in that managers may have experience in a broad range of industries or they are willing to learn from firms facing similar situations in other industries. Firms with a multi-industry perspective are outwardly oriented and not perceptually insulted from other industries.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaThe combination of the two dimensions produces a matrix with four types of firms:

1 - *The Marketing Myopia1. classic myopia, with a product-definition/single-industry perspective, 2. competitive myopia, with a customer-definition/single-industry perspective, 3. efficiency myopia, with a product-definition/multi-industry perspective, 4. innovative myopia, with a customer-definition/multi-industry perspective.

1 - *The Marketing MyopiaMarketing managers who wish to achieve the innovative firm orientation should: take a generic view of their firm or industry, monitor other industries, engage in benchmarking to determine the objectives for relevant areas of marketing, recruit marketing people, and be flexible enough to apply unique solutions to problems.

1 - *Strong sales, no profitsCustomer-driven to its coreEach customers experience is unique

Provides great selection, good value, discovery and convenienceA true online communityAmazon.comDiscussion: Will Amazon.com Survive?Case Study

1 - *What is Marketing?Marketing is managing profitable customer relationshipsAttracting new customersRetaining and growing current customersMarketing is NOT synonymous with sales or advertising

1 - *Marketing ManagementMarketing management is the art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.Creating, delivering and communicating superior customer value is key.

1 - *Marketing ManagementCustomer Management:Marketers select customers that can be served well and profitably.Demand Management:Marketers must deal with different demand states ranging from no demand to too much demand.

1 - *Marketing ManagementProduction conceptProduct concept

Selling concept Marketing concept

Societal marketing conceptManagement OrientationsMarketing Management

1 - *CRMCRM Customer relationship management . . . is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.

1 - *CRMIt costs 5 to 10 times MORE to attract a new customer than it does to keep a current customer satisfied.Marketers must be concerned with the lifetime value of the customer.

1 - *CRMAttracting, retaining and growing customersBuilding customer relationships and customer equityCustomer value/satisfactionPerceptions are keyMeeting/exceeding expectations creates satisfactionLoyalty and retentionBenefits of loyalty Loyalty increases as satisfaction levels increaseDelighting consumers should be the goalGrowing share of customerCross-sellingKey Concepts

1 - *CRMCustomer equityThe total combined customer lifetime values of all customers.Measures a firms performance, but in a manner that looks to the future.Key ConceptsAttracting, retaining and growing customersBuilding customer relationships and customer equity

1 - *CRMCustomer relationship levels and toolsTarget market typically dictates type of relationshipBasic relationshipsFull relationshipsCustomer loyalty and retention programsAdding financial benefitsAdding social benefitsAdding structural tiesAttracting, retaining and growing customersBuilding customer relationships and customer equityKey Concepts

1 - *Marketing ChallengesTechnological advances, rapid globalization, and continuing social and economic shifts are causing marketplace changes.Major marketing developments can be grouped under the theme of Connecting.

1 - *Marketing ChallengesVia technologyWith customersWith marketing partnersWith the worldAdvances in computers, telecommunications, video-conferencing, etc. are major forces.Databases allow for customization of products, messages and analysis of needs.The InternetFacilitates anytime, anywhere connectionsFacilitates CRMCreates marketspaces

Connecting

1 - *Marketing ChallengesSelective relationship management is key.Customer profitability analysis separates winners from losers.Growing share of customer Cross-selling and up-selling are helpful.Direct sales to buyers are growing.ConnectingVia technologyWith customersWith marketing partnersWith the world

1 - *Marketing ChallengesPartner relationship management involves:Connecting inside the companyConnecting with outside partnersSupply chain managementStrategic alliancesConnectingVia technologyWith customersWith marketing partnersWith the world

1 - *Marketing ChallengesGlobalizationCompetitionNew opportunitiesGreater concern for environmental and social responsibilityIncreased marketing by nonprofit and public-sector entitiesSocial marketing campaignsConnectingVia technologyWith customersWith marketing partnersWith the world