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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Summary
• Components of a Modern Marketing Information System
• Internal Records
• Marketing Intelligence
• Analyzing the Macroenvironment
• Forecasting and Demand Measurement
• The Scope Of Marketing Research
• The Marketing Research Process
• Measuring Marketing Productivity
SUMMARY
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SUMMARY
• To carry out their analysis, planning, implementation, and control
responsibilities, marketing managers need a marketing information
system (MIS) to assess information needs, develop the needed
information, and distribute it in a timely manner.
• An MIS has three components:
• (a) an internal records system, which includes information about the
order-to-payment cycle and sales information systems;
• (b) a marketing intelligence system, a set of procedures to obtain
everyday information about the marketing environment; and
• (c) a marketing research system that allows for the systematic design,
collection, analysis, and reporting of data and findings relevant to a
specific marketing situation.
• Marketers find many opportunities by identifying trends (directions
or sequences of events that have some momentum and durability)
and megatrends (major social, economic, political, and technological
changes that have long-lasting influence).
SUMMARY
• Within the rapidly changing global picture, marketers must monitor
six major environmental forces: demographic, economic, social-
cultural, natural, technological, and political-legal.
• In the demographic environment, marketers must be aware of
worldwide population growth; changing mixes of age, ethnic
composition, and educational levels; the rise of nontraditional
families; and large geographic shifts in population.
• In the economic arena, marketers need to focus on income
distribution and levels of savings, debt, and credit availability.
• In the social-cultural arena, marketers must understand people’s
views of themselves, others, organizations, society, nature, and the
universe. Their products must correspond to society’s core and
secondary values and address the needs of different subcultures
within a society
SUMMARY
• Acknowledging the public’s increased concern about the health of
the natural environment, marketers are embracing sustainability and
green marketing programs.
• In the technological arena, marketers should take account of the
accelerating pace of technological change, opportunities for
innovation, varying R&D budgets, and the increased governmental
regulation brought about by technological change.
• In the political-legal environment, marketers must work within the
many laws regulating business practices and with various special-
interest groups.
• To estimate current demand, companies attempt to determine total
market potential, area market potential, industry sales, and market
share. To estimate future demand, companies survey buyers’
intentions, solicit their sales force’s input, gather expert opinions,
analyze past sales, or engage in market testing. Mathematical
models, advanced statistical techniques, and computerized data
collection procedures are essential to all types of demand and sales
forecasting.
SUMMARY
• Companies can conduct their own marketing research or hire other
companies to do it for them. Some of ways companies can creatively
and affordably conduct research include: engage students or
professors to design and carry out projects; use the Internet; check
out rivals; tap into marketing partner expertise; and tap into
employee creativity and wisdom.tap into employee creativity and
wisodm
• Good marketing research is characterized by the scientific method,
creativity, multiple research methods, accurate model building, cost-
benefit analysis, healthy skepticism, and an ethical focus. The
marketing research process consists of defining the problem,
decision alternatives, and research objectives; developing the
research plan; collecting the information; analyzing the information;
presenting the findings to management; and making the decision
SUMMARY
• In conducting research, firms must decide whether to collect their
own data or use data that already exist. They must also choose a
research approach (observational, focus group, survey, behavioral
data, or experimental) and research instruments (questionnaire,
qualitative measures, or technological devices). In addition, they
must decide on a sampling plan and contact methods (by mail, by
phone, in person, or online).
• Two complementary approaches to measuring marketing
productivity are: (1) marketing metrics to assess marketing effects
and (2) marketing-mix modeling to estimate causal relationships and
measure how marketing activity affects outcomes. Marketing
dashboards are a structured way to disseminate the insights gleaned
from these two approaches within the organization.
SUMMARY
• Assessing the ROI of social media is challenging but requires a range
of short-term and long-term financial and brand-related measures.
Although Facebook “likes” and Twitter tweets provide some sense of
the engagement for a brand, a more complete set of measures is
typically needed to get a more accurate picture of social media or
other online activities.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
In this chapter, we will address the following questions:
• What are the components of a modern marketing information
system?
• What are useful internal records for such a system?
• What makes up a marketing intelligence system?
• What are some influential macroeconomic developments?
• How can companies accurately measure and forecast
demand?
• What constitutes good marketing research?
• What are the best metrics for measuring marketing
productivity?
• How can marketers access their return on investment of
marketing expenditures?
Section 1
COMPONENTS OF A MODERN
MARKETING INFORMATION SYSTEM
COMPONENTS OF A MODERN MARKETING
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Marketers Responsibility
• Marketers are responsible for
identifying significant
marketplace changes
• Marketers are in position
Competitors
to collect information from
• customers, Other External
Customer Groups or
• competitors, and Factors
• other external factors/group
• Some companies have Source of
Information
marketing information
system that provide details
on buyer wants,
preferences and behavior
COMPONENTS OF A MODERN MARKETING
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Marketing Information System
• What is a marketing
information system?
• A marketing information
system consists of people,
Equipment
equipment, and
procedures to gather, sort,
analyze, evaluate, and People Procedures
distribute information that
Component
is needed, timely and of a
Marketing
accurate. Information
System
COMPONENTS OF A MODERN MARKETING
INFORMATION SYSTEM
Marketing Information System
• Three major sources of
Marketing Information
• Internal company records
• Marketing intelligence Marketing
intelligence
activities activities
• Marketing research Internal
Marketing
company
research
records
Sources of
Marketing
Information
Section 2
INTERNAL RECORDS
INTERNAL RECORDS
• Internal reports of
orders, sales, prices, Order-to-
costs, inventory levels, payment Cycle
receivables and payables
• Key Components
• Order-to-payment Cycle Sales
• Sales Information Systems Information
• Database Systems
Database
INTERNAL RECORDS
• The order-to-payment
cycle entails the process Order-to-
that orders go through payment Cycle
once they are received
by the company. Includes
invoices and shipping Sales
documents. Customers Information
prefer firms that can get Systems
orders processed quickly
and accurately.
Database
INTERNAL RECORDS
• Sales information
systems provide Order-to-
managers with up-to- payment Cycle
date information on the
current sales of
individual products. Sales
Information
Systems
Database
INTERNAL RECORDS
• It reports “happenings”
data from books,
newspapers, trade Meeting
publications; customers, customers,
suppliers,
distributors, and
suppliers, distributors, Books,
managers;
and ethical
MARKETING INTELLIGENCE
Improving Market Intelligence
Combo sites
offering customer Customer
reviews and expert complaint sites
opinions
Public blogs
MARKETING INTELLIGENCE
Using Marketing Intelligence
• Where the
microenvironment
refers to those
elements closest to the
company, customers,
competitors, suppliers, Can But
etc., impact a cannot be
• The microenvironment company controlled
refers to those
elements that can
impact a company, but
cannot be controlled.
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Socio-cultural Natural
Technological Political-legal
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Need and Trends
Megatrend
Electric Automobiles
Fad
Wham-0 sold 25 million
Hula Hoops in its first 4
months. Pet rocks were
launched in the mid-
1970’s and sold 1 million
units in a matter of months.
Five month’s later sales
were almost non-existent.
Trend
Diet and Exercise
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Identifying the Major Forces
Socio-cultural Natural
Technological Political-legal
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Identifying the Major Forces
Sociocultural Environment
• The Sociocultural Ourselves
Environment impacts
consumption trends and
Nature Others
behavior, including: views
of ourselves, others, Sociocultural
organizations, society, Environment
nature and of the universe.
Society Universe
Organizations
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Identifying the Major Forces
Sociocultural Environment
• Core Cultural Values
• Core beliefs and values are passed from parents to
children and reinforced by social institutions
• Secondary beliefs and values are more open to change
• Subcultures are groups with shared values, beliefs,
preferences and behaviors emerging from their special
life experiences or circumstances
• Examples of subcultures include: Gothic, Metalhead,
punk, Trekkies, biker, etc.
ANALYZING THE MACROENVIRONMENT
Identifying the Major Forces
by manufacturing to
establish capacity and
output,
by purchasing to acquire the
right amount of supplies,
Target Market
Qualified available market: interest,
Penetrated Market
income, access and qualifications for
the market offer
Market Demand
Company Demand
FORECASTING AND DEMAND MEASUREMENT
Vocabulary for Demand Measurement
• Market-test method
Section 6
THE SCOPE OF MARKETING RESEARCH
THE SCOPE OF MARKETING RESEARCH
What is Marketing Research
Market Research
Insight
THE SCOPE OF MARKETING RESEARCH
Importance of Marketing Insights
Research Decisions
THE MARKETING RESEARCH PROCESS
Characteristics of Good marketing research
Quantify
Marketing
Compare Performance
Interpret
MEASURING MARKETING PRODUCTIVITY
Marketing metrics assess marketing effects