Description
In this course you will learn :
Week-1 Introduction to Marketing
- Defining Marketing
- Core concepts in Marketing
- Evolution of Marketing
- Marketing Planning Process
- Contemporary Issues and Practices
Week-2 Scanning the Business Environment
- The value chain
- Core Competencies
- Strategic Planning Process
- PESTEL
- Competition Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
Week-3&4 Marketing Information System and Marketing Research
- Role of Marketing Information
- System in Managerial Decision Making Process
- Components of Marketing Information systems
- The Marketing Research Process: An overview
- Defining the Management Decision Problem and Marketing Research Problem
- Framing Research Objectives and developing the research plan
- Exploratory vs. Conclusive Research
Week-5&6 Buyer Behavior
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumer buying process model
- What Influences Consumer Behavior
- Key Psychological Processes
- The Buying Decision Process: The Five Stage Model
- Other Theories of Consumer Decision Making
- Industrial Buyer Behavior
- Concept of Buying Center
- Industrial buying process model
- Influence of Economic and Behavioral Factors
- Influence of Procurement Organization
- Role of Negotiation Process
Week-7&8 Generic Marketing Strategies
- Defining Market Segmentation
- Bases of segmentation
- Evaluation and Targeting Market Segments
- Brand Positioning and Differentiation