Students review several key strategic points about Apple, in order to identify the role of their strategic capabilities and how that gives them an ongoing competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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Role of Capabilities Review the Teaching Activity
This task uses a profit/loss table to highlight a firm that has dramatically increased its profitability in a few years. But they have focused on a short-term, not long-term, basis and students need to determine what impact this may have?
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A Real Increase in Profitability? Review the Teaching Activity
This exercise contains is a list of questions facing particular industries, where there is increased expectations on them to move to a more socially responsible position. Students need to identify the arguments for/against these positions.
Shift to Societal Marketing Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students consider these questions: Does marketing promote consumption for its own sake and does society need marketing?
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Does Society Need Marketing? Review the Teaching Activity
As implied by their business title, a sales manager is responsible for achieving targeted sales through the effective management of a sales team. In this activity, students identify what tasks that a sales manager actually does.
What is the Role of a Sales Manager? Review the Teaching Activity
The task is to review the following list of new product development tasks and evaluate whether or not the marketing function would be involved.
Marketing’s Role in the New Product Process Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students review an overview of McDonald’s in their early days to identify the reasons for their success and the importance of marketing in their overall performance.
What is Marketing at McDonald’s? Review the Teaching Activity
For this exercise, students review a list of work tasks and identify which ones are likely (or not) to be part of a marketing role – an activity designed to help students further understand what a marketer does.
Are these Marketing Tasks? Review the Teaching Activity
The aim of this exercise is to identify the likely tasks of someone in a marketing role. In other words, what day-to-day functions do marketers perform?
The Role of a Marketer Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students are presented with a discussion from a manager’s meeting for a new manufacturer of bicycles. The students’ task is to determine which marketing orientation/philosophy they should adopt.
Which Marketing Orientation is Best? Review the Teaching Activity