UNIT 04 CHAPTER 18 Creating Competitive Advantage Competitor

UNIT : 04 CHAPTER: 18: Creating Competitive Advantage

• Competitor Analysis • The process of identifying key competitors, assessing their objectives, strategies, strengths and weaknesses, and reaction patterns; and selecting which competitors to attack or avoid. • Identifying Competitors Identifying the company’s competitors Assessing competitors objectives, strategies, strengths and weaknesses, and reaction patterns Selecting which competitors to attack or avoid

Assessing Competitors Determining Competitors’ Objectives Identifying Competitors’ Strategies Assessing Competitors’ Strengths and Weaknesses Selecting Competitors to Attack and Avoid • Strong or Weak Competitors • Close or Distant Competitors • Good or Bad Competitors • •

• Finding Uncontested Market Spaces • Designing a Competitive Intelligence System • Competitive Strategies Approaches to Marketing Strategy • Entrepreneurial marketing • Formulated marketing • Intrepreneurial marketing Basic Competitive Strategies • Overall cost leadership • Differentiation: • Focus Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema suggested: Operational excellence Customer intimacy Product leadership

• Competitive Positions Market leader Market challengers Market followers Market nichers 40% 30% 20% 10% Strategies for Market Leaders, Challengers, Followers, and Nichers Market Leader Strategies Market Challenger Strategies Market Follower Strategies Expand total market Full frontal attack Follow closely Protect market share Expand market share Indirect attack Follow at a distance Market Nicher Strategies By customer, market, qualityprice, service Multiple niching

Market Leader Strategies • Expanding Total Demand • Protecting Market Share • Expanding Market Share Market Challenger Strategies • The challenger can attack the market leader, a high-risk but potentially high-gain strategy. Its goal might be to take over market leadership. • Or the challenger’s objective may simply be to wrest more market share. • Market Follower Strategies Prefer to follow rather than challenge the market leader. • Market Nicher Strategies

Balancing Customer and Competitor Orientations • Competitor-centered company • Customer-centered company • Market-centered company

Chapter: 19: The Global Marketplace • Global Marketing Today • Global firm • A firm that, by operating in more than one country, gains R&D, production, marketing, and financial advantages in its costs and reputation that are not available to purely domestic competitors.

• • • Looking at the Global Marketing Environment The International Trade System The World Trade Organization and GATT Regional Free Trade Zones Economic Environment – Subsistence economies: In a subsistence economy, the vast majority of people engage in simple agriculture. – Raw material exporting economies: These economies are rich in one or more natural resources but poor in other ways. – Emerging economies (industrializing economies): In an emerging economy, fast growth in manufacturing results in rapid overall economic growth. – Industrial economies: Industrial economies are major exporters of manufactured goods, services, and investment funds.

• • • Political-Legal Environment Cultural Environment The Impact of Culture on Marketing Strategy The Impact of Marketing Strategy on Cultures Deciding Whether to Go Global Deciding Which Markets to Enter

Demographic Characteristics • Education • Population size and growth • Population age composition Geographic Characteristics • Climate • Country size • Population density-urban, rural • Transportation structure and market accessibility

Economic factors • GDP size and growth • Income distribution • Industrial infrastructure • Natural resources • Financial and human resources Sociocultural Factors • Consumer lifestyles, beliefs, and values • Business norms and approaches • Cultural and social norms • Languages Political and Legal Factors • National priorities • Political stability • Government attitudes towards global trade • Government bureaucracy • Monetary and trade regulations

• Market Entry Strategies

Deciding How to Enter the Market Exporting Joint venturing: Entering foreign markets by joining with foreign companies to produce or market a product or service. • Licensing • Contract Manufacturing A Joint venture in which a company contract with manufacturers in a foreign market to produce the product or provide its service. • Management contracting: A joint venture in which the domestic firm supplies the management know-how to a foreign company that supplies the capital; the domestic firm exports management services rather than products. • Joint ownership: • A joint venture in which a company joins investors in a foreign market to create a local business in which the company shares joint ownership and control. Direct investment • Entering a foreign market by developing foreign-based assembly or manufacturing facilities. • •

• Deciding on the Global Marketing Program • Standardized global marketing An international marketing strategy that basically uses the same marketing strategy and mix in all of the company’s international markets. • Adapted global marketing An international marketing strategy that adjusts the marketing strategy and mix elements to each international target market, bearing more costs but hoping for a larger market share and return. • Product • Straight product extension: Marketing a product in a foreign market without any change. • Product adaptation: Adapting a product to meet local conditions or wants in foreign markets • Product invention: Creating new products or services foreign markets.

• Five Global Product and Communications Strategies

• Promotion Communication adaptation: • A global communication strategy of fully adapting advertising messages to local markets. • Price • Distribution Channels • An international company must take a wholechannel view of the problem of distributing products to final consumers.

• Whole-Channel Concept for International Marketing • Deciding on the Global Marketing Organization

Chapter: 20: Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics • Sustainable marketing: Socially and environmentally responsible marketing that meets the present needs of consumers and businesses while also preserving or enhancing the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Social Criticisms of Marketing’s Impact on Individual Consumers High Prices • High Costs of Distribution: • High Advertising and Promotion Costs • Excessive Markups • Deceptive Practices • High-Pressure Selling • Shoddy, Harmful, or Unsafe Products • Planned Obsolescence • Poor Service to Disadvantaged Consumers • Underserved consumers: Because of the lack of supermarkets in lowincome areas, many disadvantaged consumers find themselves in “food deserts, ” with little or no access to healthy, affordable fresh foods.

Marketing’s Impact on Society as a Whole • False Wants and Too Much Materialism • Too Few Social Goods • Cultural Pollution Underserved consumers: Because of the lack of supermarkets in low-income areas, many disadvantaged consumers find themselves in “food deserts, ” with little or no access to healthy, affordable fresh foods. Marketing’s Impact on Society as a Whole • False Wants and Too Much Materialism • Too Few Social Goods • Cultural Pollution

Marketers answer the charges of “commercial noise” with these arguments: • First, they hope that their ads primarily reach the target audience. But because of mass-communication channels, some ads are bound to reach people who have no interest in the product and are therefore bored or annoyed. People who buy magazines addressed to their interests—such as Vogue or Fortune —rarely complain about the ads because the magazines advertise products of interest. • Second, ads make much of television and radio free to users and keep down the costs of magazines and newspapers. Many people think commercials are a small price to pay for these benefits. Consumers find many television commercials entertaining and seek them out; for example, ad viewer ship during the Super Bowl usually equals or exceeds game viewership. • Finally, today’s consumers have alternatives. For example, they can zip or zap TV commercials on recorded programs or avoid them altogether on many paid cable or satellite channels. Thus, to hold consumer attention, advertisers are making their ads more entertaining and informative.

Marketing’s Impact on Other Businesses Consumer Actions to Promote Sustainable Marketing Consumerism • The right to introduce any product in any size and style, provided it is not hazardous to personal health or safety, or, if it is, to include proper warnings and controls • The right to charge any price for the product, provided no discrimination exists among similar kinds of buyers • The right to spend any amount to promote the product, provided it is not defined as unfair competition • The right to use any product message, provided it is not misleading or dishonest in content or execution • The right to use buying incentive programs, provided they are not unfair or misleading

Traditional buyers’ rights include the following: • The right not to buy a product that is offered for sale • The right to expect the product to be safe • The right to expect the product to perform as claimed Consumer advocates call for the following additional consumer rights: • The right to be well informed about important aspects of the product • The right to be protected against questionable products and marketing practices • The right to influence products and marketing practices in ways that will improve “quality of life” • The right to consume now in a way that will preserve the world for future generations of consumers

• Environmentalism: An organized movement of concerned citizens and government agencies to protect and improve people’s current and future living environment. • Environmental sustainability: A management approach that involves developing strategies that both sustain the environment and produce profits for the company

The Environmental Sustainability Portfolio

• Major Marketing Decision Areas That May Be Called into Question under the Law • Public Actions to Regulate Marketing • Business Actions toward Sustainable Marketing Principles • Consumer-oriented marketing: A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should view and organize its marketing activities from the consumer’s point of view. • • • • Customer-value marketing: A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should put most of its resources into customer-value-building marketing investments. Innovative marketing: A principle of sustainable marketing that requires a company seek real product and marketing improvements. Sense-of-mission marketing: A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should define its mission in broad social terms rather than narrow product terms. Societal marketing: A principle of sustainable marketing that holds a company should make marketing decisions by considering consumers’ wants the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests.

• FIGURE | 20. 4: Societal Classification of Products • Deficient products: Products that have neither immediate appeal nor long-run benefits. Pleasing products: Products that give high immediate satisfaction but may hurt consumers in the long run. Salutary products: Products that have low appeal but may benefit consumers in the long run. Desirable products: Products that give both high immediate satisfaction and high long-run benefits. • • • Marketing Ethics The Sustainable Company