Working with the Marketing Mix
This exercise is designed to illustrate how the marketing mix works together to implement the organization’s marketing strategy, which should meet the needs of a defined target market.
This exercise is designed to illustrate how the marketing mix works together to implement the organization’s marketing strategy, which should meet the needs of a defined target market.
The student task is to identify whether the management style of the CEO would influence the firm’s decision to pursue new products. In order to illustrate the influence of top management values, the profiles of four different CEOs are presented.
In this mini case study, students are required to assess whether this toy manufacturer was too flexible and too willing to adapt to its changing macro-environment.
In this activity, students will review the discussion/comments from a new product project team meeting, where the participants argue for/against the merits of conducting test marketing prior to a full launch.
In this task, students simply need to match the approach to market testing a new product to the firm most likely to conduct it. The types of research are listed first, followed by the type of firm.
In this exercise, students run focus groups to understand the importance of getting beyond “top-level” answers and to gather some real insights into the behavior of the target market.
For this activity students will run their own focus groups, using a group discussion guide, which reviews consumer behavior in the fast food market.
For this task, students (with one acting as the interviewer) will identify numerous issues with a poorly designed questionnaire.
This activity summarizes the results of research into a potential new product – hot chili flavored ice cream. The firm undertook taste-test research to help determine whether they should launch this new product?
In this mini case study, the firm is considering four promotional approaches. Each of their promotional approaches relies on a different learning theory.