Which Marketing Orientation is Best?
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.
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What is Marketing at McDonald’s?
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.
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.
Improving the Marketing Mix
In this exercise, students are required to review the top-level financials of a small chain of hamburger stores and suggest improvements to their marketing mix.
Strategy Focus
In this exercise, students need to review the possible strategy development path for a textbook publisher, which is a firm that tends to pursue virtually whatever market opportunities that have been presented.
Developing a Marketing Mix
In this exercise, students select the most appropriate marketing strategy and then develop a suitable marketing mix, based upon a
proposed new chain of Italian and pizza restaurants.
Using the Product/Market Growth Matrix
The student task in this activity is to classify the examples provided into one of the four categories on the product/market growth matrix (also sometimes referred to as Ansoff’s model).
Using the BCG Matrix
In this mini-case study, students are required to allocate $250m in funds across a firm’s four strategic business units, using the BCG matrix as their primarily guide.
What’s the Best Strategy Choice?
In this mini-case study, students need to select the best growth strategies, for a producer of cheeses, from a choice of seven options.
Choose the Best Strategy
This student task is to evaluate a bank’s strengths, assess its dynamic environment, and then select the most suitable strategy direction for them to continue to expand.