New Product Evaluation Game
This activity is a ‘game’ played in groups. Although it is a fun game, it is designed to illustrate the challenges that a firm faces when it evaluates and researches a new product.
Analysis and Metrics
Different Firms – Different Research?
Sometimes a firm’s particular characteristics (or marketing situation) will influence their choice of the most appropriate marketing research design (as this activity will demonstrate). The task in this activity is to match the type of market testing research to the firm most likely to conduct it.
Defining Market Research Terms
For this task, students match the market research term to its definition, as a simple check of their understanding of the main marketing research methods.
Free Gantt Chart Excel Template
This is a free tool for your students to use to make Gantt Charts using an easy-to-use Excel template. Ideal for project planning and input into marketing plans and other assessment tasks.
Marketing Financial Forecasts
In this mini case study, an accountant firm is trying to forecast the likely profit from a new software program that they plan to launch onto the market – but they have two quite different profit expectations – can your students help them?
Market Research Scales
In this marketing research task, students classify questions into scales: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratios scales.
GE-McKinsey Multi-Factor Excel Template (Teaching Ideas)
In this set of activities, students download a free Excel template to run the GE matrix, in order to understand its construction and how it works. They can also use the template to assist them in with various marketing reports and/or assignments.
Run Cross-tabs in Excel (Free Template Tool)
This is an easy-to-use Excel template tool that allows students to learn how to use and interpret cross-tabs, when analyzing market research data. As well as cross-tabs, the template also allows students to produce charts quickly – an ideal tool for their assignments and reports.
Constructing Perceptual Maps
This exercise is designed to give students a good sense of how to use perceptual maps effectively from a marketing perspective. Students will need access to Excel and the free mapping template.
Reviewing Perceptual Maps
In this activity, students are presented with consumer perception data, along with an easy-to-use Excel perceptual mapping tool, to determine the relative positioning of competing brands
