3. Society
Fast paced
Evolving
Consumers seek instant gratification
Competition rife
Companies EVOLVE and ACCOMMODATE
consumers’ needs or DIE
4. Marketing
Organizational function
Processes
Creating, communicating and delivering value
Managing customer relationships
Benefit organization and stakeholders
5. Marketing
Activity
Set of institutions
Processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and
exchanging offerings
Value for customers, clients, partners, and society at
large
20. Marketing
Myopia
July-August 1960 issue of Harvard Business Review by
Theodore C. Levitt (1925-2006)
Companies do not ask "What business are we in?“
Businesses concentrate on meeting customers’ needs
rather than selling products
21. Marketing
Myopia
Short-sighted and inward looking approach
Focuses on needs of company
Not on customers' needs and wants
Failure to see and adjust to rapid changes in markets
23. Marketing
Myopia
“ … history of every dead and dying ‘growth’ industry
self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and
undetected decay”
Railroads - limited market view
Railroad oriented instead of transportation oriented
Product oriented instead of customer oriented
24. Companies
Define industries broadly
Take advantage of growth opportunities
Ascertain and act on customers’ needs and desires
Not on longevity of products
To be lucky make own luck!
29. Self-
deceiving
Cycle
1. Growth assured by expanding and more
affluent population
2. No competitive substitute for major product
3. Faith in mass production and in advantages of
rapidly declining unit costs as output rises
1. Preoccupation with product that lends itself to
scientific experimentation, improvement, and
manufacturing cost reduction
33. New
Marketing
Myopia
Marketers fail to see broader societal context
Three related phenomena:
1. Single-minded focus on customers at exclusion of
other stakeholders
2. Narrow definition of customers and needs
3. Failure to recognize changed societal context that
necessitates addressing multiple stakeholders
35. Today
Marketers
Focus on customer needs
Learned lesson of customer orientation
New form of marketing myopia
36. New form of
Marketing
Myopia
Serious distortions of strategic vision
Possibility of business failure
Exacerbate marginalization of marketing
function
39. New
Marketing
Myopia
Customer as “consumer”
Commercial entity - satisfy short-term, material
needs via consumption behaviors
Customer not viewed as citizen, parent, employee,
community member, or member of global village
40. More
sophisticated
understanding
of consumption
Wider set of stakeholders concerned with
company’s social and environmental impacts
Customers wear other stakeholder hats
Stakeholders and societal forces changed business
context and business decision-making
41. Marketers
Understand firm’s embedded position in society
Service shift from narrow focus on customers to
stakeholder orientation
Engaging with groups seen as adversaries - activists,
scientists, politicians and local communities
42. Marketers
Collaborating with stakeholders provides many
benefits
Develop foresight regarding markets of future
Impetus for innovation
54. Proposition 3:
Stakeholder
Issues and
Expectations
and Measure
Impact
Social impact measurement
Social and environmental performance
Evaluate effectiveness of stakeholder
management strategy and implementation.
58. Marketing
Myopia
Company technically sound and product
oriented
Also customer oriented
Know needs of customer
Further innovations to maintain customer
interest
Adapt to changing business market
59. Implications
Marketers determine whether or not catering
right market
Adapt products to cater larger market
Advertising strategies
Synchronize production capabilities of
companies and demand
60. Companies
More customer focused
Innovate
In control
Understand customer desires
Conduct marketing research
Marketing strategy developed keeping
feedback of customers in mind
61. Marketing
Myopia
Focus on customers
Failure to give attention to broad range of
stakeholders
Adverse consequences for marketers, firms,
and society
62. Marketing
Firm’s deeply embedded position in society
Shift from narrow focus on customers to
stakeholder orientation
Businesses prosper and grow in unpredictable
business environment of 21st century
63. Problems that exist today
Cannot be solved by the level of thinking that
created them
64. “Twenty years from now,
you will be more disappointed by the things you
did not do,
than by the thing you did do.
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