TASK 1: An assessment of the role of strategic marketing in an organization
Although most authors speak about some parts of Strategic Marketing, here is included a list of definitions of the term. Some authors appear in different years ( for example, Jain), It is understand that they have added new comments or redefined the term after the years. The table and the definitions have been ordered by year of publication.
Name
Year
Definitions
Aramario & Lambin
1991
“although marketing has basically an strategic conception of the selling activity, we use to distinguish between strategic marketing and operational marketing, depending on long term or short term objectives. Strategic marketing starts in thoughts about current situation of the
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If this is done, organization will achieve effectiveness
4. Personnel Satisfaction.
Strategies contribute towards organization effectiveness by providing satisfaction to the personnel of the organization. In organization where formal strategic management process is followed, people are more satisfied by definite prescription of their roles thereby reducing role conflict and role ambiguity. If the decisions are systematized in the organization, everyone knows how to proceed, how to contribute towards organizational objectives, where the information may be available, who can make decisions, and so on. Such clarity will bring effectiveness at the individual level and consequently at organizational level. Strategies provide all these things in the organization through which everything is made crystal clear.
Looking into the role of strategy, Ross and Kami have suggested “without a strategy the organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It is like a tramp; it has no place to go.” They ascribe most business failures to lack of strategy, or the wrong strategy, or lack of implementation of a reasonably good strategy. They conclude from their study that without appropriate strategy effectively implemented, failure is a matter of time.
An analysis of how marketing strategy is developed
There are various ways in which marketing strategies are developed. These are:
Before examining the each promotion technique, a brief definition of marketing strategy and each type of marketing concepts will be given. Firstly,
On approaching this module I expect to broaden my understanding of strategic marketing and that is exactly what I did, with research and extensive reading I was further educated on the history of marketing, why marketing is essential for businesses, ways to apply different type of marketing strategies. My expectation of strategic marketing was advertising and external customer attraction base on supply and demand, however, I learned that internal marketing is equally as important as external marketing. I also found out that customer voice does drive the decision company marketing team makes base on customer demand thus solidifying the fact that customers are always right and the organization exists because of customers. I also expect to learn
Strategic marketing management is all about marketing activities that influence the corporate, business and marketing plans. Strategic marketing can be characterized into three fundamental roles. In the first place, marketers situate everybody in the business toward markets and clients. Along these lines, they are in charge of helping business execute a showcasing rationality all through the strategic planning process. Second, gathering and analysis of information are being done by marketers to assess the actual situation, recognize patterns in the advertising environment, and evaluate the potential effect of these patterns. This analysis contributes to corporate, business, and marketing strategic plans. The third role is
Strategy is a set of complicated tactics formulated by the executives of a company directed towards the achievement of company’s goal (Salmela, 2002). It is about all the path ways that a company would follow to reach its ultimate goal. It is a company’s strategy which helps to identify what it does better than the other companies in the industries, which may be different from what it does best. For successful strategy formulation and implementation, a company should know the needs of customers and should have knowledge of its competitors. Through a good strategy a company would identify that opportunity which makes it different from the others (Thompson, 2005).
In the article Marketing is Everything, the author Regis McKenna emphasizes the significant of managing strategic marketing. He also highlights that the transformation process of marketing and several important marketing elements that lead originations toward success. First and foremost, McKenna compares two periods of companies. Before technology developed, most companies concentrated on sale or product driven. In other words, during that time, products were displayed as the first priority in corporations rather than being customer oriented. Instead of researching customers’ desires and customizing new products for them, manufacturers and sellers did not pay attention to their customers’ needs and only tried to alter their minds to match products.
Execution of a strategy allows an organization to identify a strategic manager or management team who will be responsible for five key components: people, resources, structure, systems and culture. The role of the strategic manager or management team is to implement and monitor performance and report to company stakeholders on the status. Because strategy drives an organization’s success, the team should select managers who can aggressively drive the objectives to achieve desired results through three actions:
Marketing is all about creating a really solid decision, which will lead to more money. In this paper I will give some history of my organization, and explain how each element of marketing affects the organization. In addition I will cover the industry in which the organization resides in.
When a business forms a strategy they are producing a large scale plan with plans to achieve one or more goals set by the business. The factors that affect the plan, in both negative and positive ways, are uncertain. So when making a strategic plan a business will have to take into account all factors and plan for them. Strategy is imperative for a business as not only does it give them a sense of direction and some goals to achieve, but also resources are usually limited so you have to a strategy will help to guide the business and make the best use of the resources that they have. Strategy give the business direction, it helps them to see whether they are over achieving/under achieving and meeting the goals they have set themselves. If a
In everything that we do, we have used some kind of strategy (plan). From driving to the store, which street to take to get there the fastest, to selecting that perfect item at the high tech store, the newest digital gadget. It is in our nature to formulate this kind of behavior when we are given a choice. In an organization it is much harder to accomplish that same behavior because there is more than one individual in the process, but still possible to do. Strategy is a guide by which an organization moves from a current state of affairs to a future desired state. In this paper I will explain the strategy implementation concept of the basic model of strategic management that we can use to make this happen. Strategy implementation is the process
Soon after the SUV craze took hold in the early 1990s, the GMC Typhoon emerged, a performance model like none other. Based on the GMC Jimmy, a turbocharged 4.3-liter V-6 engine enabled it to move from 0 to 60 mph in just 5.3 seconds, comparable to what sports cars attained during that era.
Strategic planning involves making decisions about the organization’s long-term goals and strategies and how the organization decides to implement their goals (Bateman, Snell, Konopaske, pg. 113). Strategies help organizations to have a clear perspective on how to go about accomplishing the goals they have in place. All organizations have a clear vision of what their mission and purpose as a company is, they know how to fulfill the mission, vision, and purpose and they know how to ensure that they accomplish all their goals. However, the route the organization takes to define these things determines how effective they will be.
Marketing strategy and marketing are becoming more important elements to the business now than ever before, due to dynamic environment throughout the globe. The changes taking place in the political, social, economical and technological environment have a great impact on the businesses and posing great challenges to the business to survive in the dynamic market place as the world is transforming into the boundary less world. (Crittenden VL, Crittenden WF & Muzyrka DF, 2002)
Marketing strategy is the goal of the increasing sales and achieving the sustainable competitive advantages. Marketing strategy includes all the basic and long-term activities in the field of the marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of the company and the formulation, evaluation and selection of the market-oriented strategies and therefore it contributes to the goals of the company and its marketing objectives.
A strategy is said to be a plan that is made for the long term success of a product or brand. It is extremely important to have a strategy in order to figure out a direction towards which any company is able to focus all its resources efficiently and achieve desired outcomes. Formulating effective strategies is a considerably long process in itself that combines analysing several factors, situations and issues that are already present in a company and looking to improve on them alongside trying to implement various innovations and ideas to collectively create a direction towards which they can move and direct the resources available to them.
In this section of task I am going to discuss about strategic marketing and the role of strategic marketing.