MGT-519 STRATEGIC MARKETING AAMER SIDDIQI LECTURE 5 RE-CAP • Definition of Marketing • 3 levels of Marketing • Marketing a way of doing business • Marketing as Strategy-(STP) • Marketing Mix – 4 Ps • The value of Marketing • Needs, Utility, Exchange Relationships & Demand • Understanding Needs, Wants and Demands • The exchange process • Utility RE-CAP (CONT’D) • Competitive advantage – Porter’s Model • Creation of Competitive advantage – Roger’s 5 Adopter characteristics • Implementation of Competitive advantage – Porter’s value chain – Porter’s 3 choices of strategic positioning • Sustaining Competitive Advantage • Porter’s 3 conditions RE-CAP (CONT’D) • Core competencies and capabilities – 4 elements for developing strategy (1) Portfolio of competencies (2) Products based on competencies (3) Continuous investment in core competencies or capabilities (4) Caution: core competencies as core rigidities • Resource-Based View of the Firm (RBV) – RBV Framework – Resources – Collins and Montgomery 5 tests for a valuable resource RE-CAP (CONT’D) • Evolutionary change and Hyper competition – Evolutionary change • Competing on the Edge, Eisenhardt & Brown (1998) – Hyper competition • Game theory • The Marketing Concept – The Production Era – The Institutional Period and Selling Orientation – The Marketing Concept – Relationship Marketing/ Supply Chain Era – Value Chain Era • Sales orientation • Production orientation • Product orientation WHAT CAN BE MARKETED • Goods: physical goods that can be seen and touched – Having form and substance, e.g. book, a pen, • Services: intangible items provided by other people, e.g doctor, – • • On purchase of a service don’t gain ownership Goods and services not discrete categories but a continuum THE GOODS AND SERVICES CONTINUUM • Marketers see relative goods/services composition of total products • Determining a product's position on the continuum helps spot opportunities • “Goods and services are the outputs offered by businesses to satisfy the demands of consumer and industrial markets” DIFFERENTIATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES • Differentiated on the basis of four characteristics • Tangibility: – Goods are tangible products – They have shape and can be seen and touched such as cars, clothing, and machinery – Services are intangible – do not have physical presence; hair styling, pest control, repairing • Perishability: – Goods have some degree of durability beyond the time of purchase – Services do not; they perish as they are delivered DIFFERENTIATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES (CONT’D) • Separability: – – – – Goods can be stored for later use production and consumption are typically separate production and consumption of services are simultaneous services and the service provider cannot be separated • Standardisation: – Quality of goods can be controlled through standardisation and grading in the production process. – The quality of services, is different each time they are delivered MARKETER’S PERSPECTIVE ON GOODS & SERVICES • Goods and services are both products • Same set of principles and skills to market all products, whether they are apples, oranges or haircuts For example, a restaurant provides a physical good (prepared food), but also provides services in the form of ambiance, the setting and clearing of the table, waiting on table, etc • To be competitive heavy reliance of services element with goods SERVICE DOMINANT LOGIC (SDL) • Service Dominant Logic (SDL) approach to marketing • Focuses on providing services with a good. Also called Augmented Product PRODUCT • ‘Product’ as a bundle of attributes or characteristics, example a bread • Physical attributes provide different benefits to the buyer • Attributes may fulfill 1 or more needs (physiological, social etc) • Product may have to satisfy many needs to be successful THE TOTAL PRODUCT OFFERING • The total package that makes up and surrounds the product • Including all supporting features such as branding, packaging, servicing and warranties • Includes all elements of the marketing mix so that marketers must design a complete, co-ordinated, cohesive and congruent package THE TOTAL PRODUCT OFFERING (CONT’D) • TPO consists of four levels 1. 2. 3. 4. The Core The Basic product The Augmented product The Perceived product SUMMARY (CONT’D) • • • • • • • What can be marketed The goods and services continuum Differentiation of goods and services Marketer’s perspective on goods & services Service dominant logic (SDL) Product Total product offering THANKYOU