CONCEPTUAL/THEORETICAL PAPER Strategic marketing and marketing strategy: domain‚ definition‚ fundamental issues and foundational premises Rajan Varadarajan Received: 20 April 2009 / Accepted: 24 September 2009 / Published online: 28 October 2009 # Academy of Marketing Science 2009 Abstract This paper proposes a domain statement for strategic marketing as a field of study and delineates certain issues fundamental to the field. It also proposes a definition for marketing strategy‚ the focal organizational
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and transportation which contributed to its cost cutting objective. Its most differentiating factor was its flat packaging system which had significantly improved its operational efficacy. IKEA was ranked 35th in the list of the top 100 brands by Business Week6 for the year 2008-09. The company‟s brand value was estimated to be US$ 10.9 billion in 2008. For the financial year 2008‚ IKEA registered sales of US$ 28.8 billion. According to industry experts‚ IKEA‟s supply chain management was the key
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Describe the business-level strategies of any three well-known companies operating in the GCC region. An organization’s core competencies should be focused on satisfying customer needs or preferences in order to achieve above average returns. This is done through Business-level strategies. Business level strategies detail actions taken to provide value to customers and gain a competitive advantage by exploiting core competencies in specific‚ individual product or service markets. Business-level strategy
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of strategic alliances. Find examples of strategic alliances both working and not working for parties involved and explain why? Strategic alliances can contribute to the success of a business and are beneficial when maintained with efficient management. As defined in Global Business Today the term ‘strategic alliances’ refers to a “cooperative agreement between potential or actual competitors for the benefit of all companies concerned” (Hill‚ et al.‚ 2011)
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STRATEGY ANALYSIS * Evaluate the current strategies used by Domino’s pizza What is strategy? Strategy is a general‚ detailed plan of action‚ encompassing a long period of time‚ to achieve a complicated goal. Strategy‚ as a way of action‚ become necessary in a situation when for the direct achievement of the main goal‚ the available resources are not enough. The task of strategy is an efficient use of the available resources for the achievement of the main goal. There are many strategies can
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the article titled ‘Samsung vs Apple‚ The Battle for Design Dominance’ written by Haydn Shaughnessy and retrieved from www.forbes.com. The article is about Samsung vs Apple executing a new foundation and platform for business strategy. This is a key change in the business strategy of the software organization. This material is very important and relevant to the course content of business strategy because of the following reasons: It talks about business strategy of one of the leading cell phone
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The Business Strategy Game was something new to me. I have never used a similar product and was surprised by the amount of information that was necessary to fully function in the game. Having four co-managers was challenging at times‚ but at other times made the decision processes easier. Reflecting on the different pieces of this games will show what I learned‚ what strategies were successful and why‚ my discovery on working with other members‚ how my team organized meetings and the workload
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Re-take exam IB55 29 Jan-05-Feb 2013 OPTION 2 This is the mandatory Cover Page to be attached to your exam paper if you choose to work with OPTION2 Dynamic Corporate Social Responsibility: Apple‚ Inc. Marcello Montrone INTRODUCTION The social psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)‚ once wrote: “There is nothing as practical as a good theory”. According to this saying we tend to consider theory very important and that it can be helpful to guide us on the correct way. This
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Apple Inc. 2010 Case Study Case Summary: Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak started Apple over 30 years ago. Over that time span‚ Steve jobs was fired from Apple and rehired. It was essentially Jobs that save apple with superb vision and creative innovations. The first innovation was like a fashion statement. The iMac was an innovation that put 2 products into one. The desktop was built into the screen. Then‚ Jobs tackled the world of portable music by inventing the iPod. He shortly followed
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Publications. Managing and Mentoring Capstone Design Teams: Considerations and Practices for Faculty* MARIE PARETTI Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University‚ 660 McBryde Hall‚ Engineering Education‚ Blacksburg‚ VA 24061‚ USA. E-mail: mparetti@vt.edu RICHARD LAYTON Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology‚ 5500 Wabash Ave‚ CM 191‚ Terre Haute‚ IN 47803 USA. E-mail: layton@rose-hulman.edu STEPHEN LAGUETTE Department of Mechanical Engineering‚ University of California‚ Santa Barbara‚ USA
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