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Effective Marketing and Demand Management

Workshop Duration

Two Days

Target Audience

  • All Senior and Middle Managers involved in Marketing, Business Strategy R&D, Production and Procurement and Supply

  • High-flying Junior Managers and New Entrants

Deliverables

An understanding of:

  • The basic principles of marketing and demand management

  • How to think effectively about customer value propositions and functional utilities

  • How to create effective offensive and defensive marketing strategies for sustainable and competitive markets

Workshop Structure

Day One: Understanding Demand Management

Segmenting Types of Customers:
Recognising the Importance of Differentiating between Individual and Business to Business Customers

Segmenting Types of Value Propositions:
Understanding the Relationship between Quality and Cost in the Preferences of Different Types of Customers

Segmenting Functional Utilities:
Understanding the Types of Functional Utility that Specific Categories of Customers Value

Managing Demand Effectively:
Linking Customer Types to Value Propositions and Functional Utilities

Day Two: Devising Effective Marketing Strategies

Creating Customer Lock-in Through Innovation in Supply:
Understanding the Dilemma of the First Mover and the Need for Effective Knowledge Management.

Defining the Boundary of the Firm for New Product Development:
Understanding the Need for a Sustainable Operational Margin through Effective Make/Buy and Outsourcing

Sustaining Customer Lock-in:
The Role of Isolating Mechanisms and Uncertain Imitability as the Basis for Market Closure in New Product Offerings

Constructing Marketing Strategies:
Tools and Techniques for Creating Offensive and Defensive Strategies in Sustainable and Agile Market Places

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