a recent case of marketing myopia TUESDAY‚ AUGUST 31‚ 2010 Brand Update : Can Ambassador be saved ? Recently the good old Ambassador was in the news that the brand owners - Hindustan Motors is planning to relaunch /rejuvenate this heritage brand. Both the brand and company is in deep crisis with HM posting losses of Rs 43 crore last year and its networth declining by about 50%. The company plans to relaunch the Amby in a new look and is planning to entrust a design house with the task. The
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Marketing Myopia What is Marketing Myopia? Marketing Myopia is the short-sighted approach of management of focusing on a particular product and not identifying the correct industry the organization is in. (Levitt‚ 1975) In essence it implies that organizations should not define their business based on their products and should attempt to identify the business based on customer centric evidence. Organizations need to focus on customer wants and use customer centric evidence forming strategic
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Marketing Myopia is narrow minded approach to a marketing situation where only short-range goals are considered or Where the marketing focuses on only one aspect out of many possible marketing attributes Marketing Myopia coined by Theodore Levitt raised the famous question- “What Business are you really in?” Some Indian Examples: Maruti Gypsy : RIP Brand : Gypsy Company: Maruti Suzuki Brand Count : 182 Gypsy was one of India’s first sports utility vehicles. The vehicle created
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The term "Myopia" means short-sightedness in vision. Marketing glossary has borrowed this term to aptly describe the short-sightedness by a company. Thus "marketing myopia" means a short-sighted and inward looking approach to marketing that focuses on the needs of the company instead of defining the company and its products in terms of the customers’ needs and wants. It results in the failure to see and adjust to the rapid changes in their markets. The history of Indian Business has been exposed
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PAPER Marketing myopia By John D Marketing myopia is a term created by Theodore Lewitt‚ to describe a common managerial problem that many businesses have had in the past and now have in the present. It is a problem where the business fails to look into the future of their company and the industry they are in‚ and fail to plan ahead for it. Therefore in myopia suffering businesses‚ business decisions are usually based on the current state of the market. This can usually be attributed to
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1.0 Introduction In line with Levitt (1960)‚ Marketing Myopia refers to the narrow view of myopia‚ marketing and business environment. This kind of advertising program without any demand with clients but an organization will is to sell goods or services within particular economic markets. It tilted a business to focus on its desire‚ rather than what the shopping desires‚ and often modifying to form a culture of immunity each typically end up losing the name‚ business damage and ineffective commercial
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Marketing Myopia: Marketing Myopia suggests that businesses will do better in the end if they concentrate on meeting customers’ needs rather than on selling products. The mistake of paying more attention to products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products. The term ’marketing myopia’ was first expressed in a famous article of the same name written by Theodore Levitt for the Harvard Business Review in 1960. In ’Marketing Myopia‚’ Levitt argued that many companies
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Marketing Myopia is a term used in marketing that describes and unnecessarily common affliction among business people. It is the failure to see "down the road". Many business people make their decisions based on current circumstances. They do not think about what will likely happen in their industry in the future? One reason shortsightedness is so common is that people feel that they can not predict the future accurately. While this is a legitimate concern‚ it is also possible to use a whole range
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Abstract The article‚ “Marketing Myopia” written by Theodore Levitt‚ illustrates how businesses interact in their particular industry’s life cycles of growth‚ maturity and decline. One of the primary focal points of the article is that businesses must know their industry in regards to satisfying their specific customer’s needs. Identifying customer needs and meeting them‚ allows for continued growth of the company and industry. Recognizing the necessity to satisfy customer’s needs rather than
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Article: Levitt‚ T. (1960) “Marketing Myopia”‚ Harvard Business Review‚ July-August‚ 1960 Marketing myopia is a term coined by Theodore Levitt. The fundamental concept to take from marketing myopia is that a business will survive and perform better if it focuses on satisfying customer needs rather than selling specific products. Rather than defining the company and its products to respond to the customers’ needs and wants‚ this is a short-sighted‚ inward‚ myopic marketing approach focusing on the
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