Marketing myopia: Theodore � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �5� Running head: MARKETING MYOPIA: THEODORE LEVITT Marketing Myopia: Theodore Levitt University of Phoenix � Marketing Myopia In Theodore Levitt ’s article‚ "Marketing Myopia" (1975)‚ the concept of marketing was widened by examining the history of failed industries doomed to fail eventually. Industries failed to continue their growth not because of a saturated market but failure of proper management. They did not realize the need of expanding
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Marketing myopia Organisations should define their sector as much extensive as they can ‚ because it may help them with developing their business and finding more opportunities. Levitt gives examples abut railroads which hadn’t thought about their industry as the transportation business‚ but as just the railroad business. Moreover‚ there is another similar example about Hollywood which hadn’t defined itself as the entertainment business‚ but as the movie business. Levitt called that as “Marketing
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Introduction to global marketing ‘The process of focusing the resources (people‚ money‚ and physical assets) and objectives of an organisation on global market opportunities and threats’ Keegan 1995 Marketing is now a universal discipline the new concept of marketing appeared 1960 - Marketing Myopia - Levitt now ‘strategic’ concept The Three Principles of Marketing Customer value and the value equation i.e. value greater than competitors Value equation is: VALUE = PERCEIVED
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Innovative Toys Case: Innovative Toys‚ a successful toy manufacturing company that manufactured toys for children between ages 6 -10 has decided to manufacture infant toys and distribute through Big Tiger supermarkets. It has two possible products to introduce in the market but can only introduce one of them in the current year and use the net income and value generated by it to introduce the other product. It also needs to generate substantial income for the Big Tiger so that Innovative toys would
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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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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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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
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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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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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