Chapter Questions • What are the trends in marketing practices? • What are the keys to effective marketing? • What tools help companies monitor and improve their marketing activities? • How can a company improve its marketing implementation skills? • Can companies be socially responsible? 22-1 Trends in Marketing Practices • • • • • • • • • Merging Globalizing Outsourcing Reengineering Flattening Focusing Benchmarking Supplier partnering Customer partnering 22-2 Organizing the Marketing Department • • • • • • • Functionally Geographically By product By brand By market Matrix By corporate/division 22-3 Functional Organization 22-4 The Product Manager’s Interactions 22-5 Vertical Product Team • PM = Product Manager • APM = Associate PM • PA = Product Assistant 22-6 Triangular Product Team • PM = Product Manager • R = Market Researcher • C = Communication Specialist 22-7 Horizontal Product Team • • • • • • • PM = Product Manager R = Market Researcher C = Communication Specialist S = Sales Manager D = Distribution Specialist F = Finance Specialist E = Engineer 22-8 Marketing at the Corporate Level • To promote a culture of customer orientation • To be an advocate for the customer • To assess market attractiveness • To develop firm’s overall value proposition, the vision, and articulation of how it proposes to deliver superior value to customers 22-9 Necessary Skills for Marketing Programs • Diagnostic • Implementation • Evaluation • Interaction with corporate level 22-10 Types of Marketing Control Annual plan control Profitability control Efficiency control Strategic control 22-11 The Control Process What do we want to achieve? What is happening? Why is it happening? What should we do about it? 22-12 The bigger picture Corporations exist as part of society what do they do to help? (Besides earn a profit for shareholders) 22-13 Corporate Social Responsibility Marketing efforts using the resources of the company to enhance society. 22-14 Corporate Social Responsibility Socially responsible Behaviour Ethical behaviour Legal behaviour 22-15 Cause-Related Marketing Marketing that links the firm’s contributions to a designated cause to customers engaging directly or indirectly in revenue-producing transactions with the firm. 22-16 Cause-Related Marketing 22-17 Branding a Cause Marketing Program • Self-branded: Create Own Cause Program • Co-branded: Link to Existing Cause Program • Jointly branded: Link to Existing Cause Program 22-18 Social Marketing • Three major classes of tools to change behavior – Education (Promises) – Law (Sticks) – Marketing (Carrots) Education-Law-Marketing 22-20 Social Marketing Planning Process Where are we? Where do we want to go? How will we get there? How will we stay on course? 22-21 Marketing Debate Is marketing management an art or a science? Take a position: 1. Marketing management is largely an artistic exercise and therefore highly subjective. 2. Marketing management is largely a scientific exercise with well-established guidelines and criteria. 22-22