Week 1
Collaboration
Collaboration: Service-dominant logic (one-week activity)
The dominant paradigm in
marketing for the past decade has been service-dominant logic (SDL), the idea
that organisations and consumers co-create value in an ongoing process with
various points of interaction.
In this week’s collaboration, you will reflect on and evaluate your own experiences with the co-creation of value, for example, personalised interactions where both you and the organisation benefitted from the exchange.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
In this week’s collaboration, you will reflect on and evaluate your own experiences with the co-creation of value, for example, personalised interactions where both you and the organisation benefitted from the exchange.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review service-dominant
logic (SDL) in your notes and readings and think about situations in which you
engaged in the co-creation of value.
To complete this Collaboration:
By Saturday (Day 3)
For your Initial Response, in 300–500 words, address the
following:
Use service-dominant
logic (SDL) to describe a situation in which you engaged in co-creation of
value. What strategies could the marketer have used to enhance this experience
for you? How would these strategies have improved your experience?
Submit your Initial Response to Turnitin and to
the Collaboration forum.
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Participate in the Collaboration Forum by posting 3 to 5 responses to your colleagues in which you:
Constructively critique their description of a situation in which they engaged in co-creation of value. Remember to provide a rationale for each of your comments.
Identify additional
strategies the marketer could have used to enhance your colleagues’
experiences. How would these strategies have improved their experiences?
You should aim to participate
with follow-on postings to your colleagues’ responses, making 3–5 significant
follow-up postings. Aim to spread your total collaboration discussions across 3
separate days of each week.
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Week 1 Module Project: First submission: proposal
This week, you select a product or
service to work on for your Module Project
To complete this Module Project
submission:
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Submit a proposal of
approximately 300-500 words in which you:
Identify and describe the
organisation and the product or service for which you would like to develop a
strategic marketing plan for your module project. Briefly explain why you are
choosing to evaluate this organisation for your module project.
Submit an initial list of
2-3 resources you will be able to use for your research. These sources may be
articles on the industry or the organisation, from relevant websites. The Week
3 marketplace analysis and subsequent Market Perspectives assignments must be
supported by a substantial list of quality external reference sources using the
online library.
This first Module Project
submission is not graded, but you will receive feedback from your Instructor to
help you improve your work. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn
from your Instructor’s feedback – give the assignment your full effort and ask
for clarification on any feedback you do not understand.
To access the weekly
submission link, click here.
In Module Home navigation
menu, select Weekly Assessments in the navigation menu, then Week 1.
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Week 2 Collaboration
Market segmentation, part 1 (two-week activity)
Last week, you
used service-dominant logic (SDL) to explain your experiences with the
co-creation of value. This week, you begin a two-week collaboration analysing
and evaluating the market segmentation practices of two very different
organisations. You will begin with the Coca-Cola Company’s failed launch of its
Dasani brand of bottled water in the UK. For Part 1, watch ‘Coke’s Water Bomb’ in
the Learning Resources section of Week 2, paying close attention to the
company’s marketing strategy.
To complete
this Collaboration:
By Saturday
(Day 3), submit a response of approximately 300-500 words
answering the discussion questions below:
What are the
important segmentation variables for the water market in the UK? Make sure to
justify your selections.
What segment(s)
did Coca-Cola target and why?
What mistake(s)
did Coca-Cola make in the UK? Based on your understanding of the water market
in the UK, why were these mistakes?
Submit your
initial response to the Turnitin link provided and post to the Collaboration
forum.
By Wednesday
(Day 7), post 3-5 responses to your colleagues in which you:
Constructively
critique their description of segmentation variables for UK bottled water and
those targeted by
Coca-Cola.
Remember to justify your responses.
Constructively
critique their description of the mistakes made by Coca-Cola in the UK.
Remember to justify your responses.
Ensure that you
spread your collaboration posts across at least three separate days of each
week. This will help maximise the value of your collaboration with colleagues
and serve to meet the learning objectives for each activity.
Next week, you
will continue this Collaboration by analysing and evaluating the marketing
strategy for the University of Liverpool’s MBA programme and considering how
well it has been designed to serve your own needs.
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Week 3 Collaboration: Market segmentation, part 2
This
week, you will continue your collaboration discussion from Week 2 by considering
external environmental factors.
Last week, you explored the role played by marketing research,
segmentation and targeting in developing marketing strategies that effectively
serve the wants and needs of the consumer.
This week, you will expand your focus to consider the adaptation
of marketing strategies to external environmental factors in the markets
served.
In Part 2 of the market segmentation collaboration, you will
address a more personal example of how well the University of Liverpool’s
marketing strategies have been designed to serve your own wants and needs.
To complete this Collaboration:
Until Monday (Day 5)
Continue to participate by engaging in a discussion
with your colleagues, replying to each other’s posts.
In your discussion:
·
Consider the segmentation and targeting strategies the
University of Liverpool has chosen for marketing its MBA programme.
·
To what extent has it needed to adapt these strategies and its
offerings to the environmental factors in the markets in which it operates?
·
Reflect on your own reasons for choosing to undertake your MBA
at the University of Liverpool. How have the strategies and marketing practices
aligned with your reasons and contributed to or detracted from value co-creation
and establishing a strong ongoing relationship?
Post an additional 3-5 responses to your colleagues in which
you:
Compare their analysis with yours of the effect of external
environmental factors on ‘Coke’s water bomb’.
Compare their analysis with yours of the effect of external
environmental factors on UoL’s MBA programme.
Expand upon their reflections on their reasons for choosing the
UoL programme, the value co-creation and the relationship established with your
own observations.
You should aim to participate with follow-on postings to your
colleagues’ responses, making 3–5 significant follow-up postings. Aim to spread
your total collaboration discussions across 3 separate days of each week.
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Week 3 Individual Summary
For your Individual Summary, post a summary of
approximately 250 words of what you have learned from this Collaboration,
addressing the following questions:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using segmentation
to target offerings to specific market segments?
How does an understanding of external environmental factors
contribute to more effective target market segmentation and value creation for
the organisation and for their customers?
Submit your Individual Summary to Turnitin and
to the Collaboration forum.
To access the Collaboration Forum, click on the "Week
3 Collaboration Forum" link.
To submit your Individual Summary to Turnitin, click on the
"View/Complete" link for Week 3 Collaboration Individual
Summary – Turnitin
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Week 3 Module Project:
Second submission: Situation analysis
This
week, you submit the situation analysis section of the module project. This
week, you will submit the first part of your strategic marketing plan
report.
The
report should outline your analysis of the market environment and your
organisation’s marketing response so far.
Specifically,
describe the nature of the product (product attributes and/or services
provided) and market (characteristics, needs, trends, growth).
From
your analysis of the internal and external environments, prepare a SWOT
analysis of the organisation's strengths and weaknesses and of the
opportunities and threats in the external environment.
This
must not simply be a report on what the organisation is currently doing or a restatement
of the work of others. Throughout the assignment, you should focus on how the
decisions you recommend will offer a competitive advantage for the firm and
justify any changes you consider necessary.
You do
not need to include a Cover Sheet (but do include your name at the top),
Table of Contents or Executive Summary in this Week 3 assignment.
You do need
to include a Reference section at the end along with in-text citations
identifying all sources used to prepare your assignment, which should include a
substantial listing of originally sourced material from the online library,
quality websites and/or industry sources.
References:
The
References should be a list of quality academic and professional articles and
papers, links to websites and other sources (for example, documented
interviews) which you have consulted in developing your Module Project
assignment.
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Week 4: Collaboration:
Customer insight, part 1 (two-week activity)
This
week, you begin your second two-week collaboration in which you consider our
own purchasing behaviour as consumers and compare it with the purchasing
behaviour of an organisation.
What
factors influence your purchasing decisions, and how would those decisions
change if you were buying not just for yourselves, but for an entire
organisation? By examining the purchase of a computer or mobile device, you and
your colleagues will gain a better understanding of
these processes and the importance of customer insight in a successful
marketing strategy.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review both customer and business buying-decision processes in
your notes and readings, paying close attention to how these processes differ
from each other.
To complete this Collaboration:
By Saturday (Day 3)
For your Initial
Response, in 300 to 500 words, address the following:
Consider the last time you bought a computer or mobile device
for accessing the Internet. What were the major factors that influenced your
behaviour as you moved through the buying-decision process? Why were these
factors important to you?
Now consider how you would approach this decision if you were
responsible for buying this type of equipment for an organisation for which you
worked to be used by all of its employees. How would the buying process and the
factors that would influence your decision be different from your own personal
purchase?
Submit your Initial
Response to Turnitin and
to the Collaboration forum.
Until Wednesday (Day 7)
Participate by engaging in a discussion with your
colleagues, replying to each other’s posts:
Constructively critique their assessment of the consumer versus
the business buying process. Remember to justify your response.
Reflect upon ways in which your classmates’ posts may have
reshaped your own views.
Ask clarifying questions.
To submit your initial response to Turnitin, click on the
"View/Complete" link for Week
4 Collaboration Initial Response -- Turnitin.
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Week 4 Personal
Development Plan: Second submission: reflection
For
your second PDP Assignment, you submit a critically reflective paper that will
address your perspectives on marketing based on your personal and professional
experiences. Reflecting regularly on acquired knowledge is important in order
to ensure you remain sharp and open to innovative
ideas.
To complete this PDP:
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Submit an approximately 1,000-word narrative addressing the
following:
Your prior knowledge and experience with the
module's key concepts and themes, including those you identified as particular
areas of interest in your initial PDP submission;
Your personal perspectives and assumptions around key module
topics;
How your current practice relates to key module topics;
Identifying strategies to achieve your plans;
Identifying areas for your personal development and growth.
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Week 5 Collaboration: Consumer insight, part 2 (two-week
activity)
For this week’s collaboration, you will continue to explore the
importance of consumer insight, understanding the purchasing decisions of both
individuals and organisations.
You will once again consider your last purchase of a computer or
mobile device, this time focusing solely on branding and its impact on your
decision to buy. You will also have the opportunity to reflect on the influence
of new technologies on brand equity. Finally, you will submit a summary of the
entire two-week collaboration.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review your notes and readings on branding, positioning and
building brand equity.
Review your responses from Part 1 of the collaboration.
To complete this Collaboration:
Until Monday (Day 5)
Continue to participate by engaging in a discussion with your
colleagues, replying to each other’s posts.
In your discussion:
Consider the role that branding played in your last purchase of
a computer or mobile device for accessing the Internet. How was brand image of
alternative choices a positive or negative factor in your influencing your
decision?
Now consider the role that branding would play in an
organisational buying decision for the same type of equipment and how it would
be similar to or different from the influence it has on a consumer's purchasing
behaviour.
Post an additional 3-5 responses to your colleagues in which
you:
Compare and contrast the results of their analysis with yours.
Reflect on how technology has offered new capabilities for
building (or destroying) brand equity, including social media and online brand
communities.
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Week 5: Module Project:
Third submission: Marketing strategy
This week, you submit the marketing
strategy section of the module project
For your third module project submission,
you will submit the second part of your strategic marketing plan report, an
initial draft of your Marketing Strategy sections 3.0-3.5, in which you explain
your organisation’s mission, marketing and financial objectives, target markets
and positioning strategy by making reference to relevant marketing theories,
concepts and frameworks.
This must not simply be a report on what
the organisation is currently doing or a restatement of the work of others. Throughout
the assignment, you should focus on how the decisions you
recommend will offer a competitive advantage for the firm and justify any
changes you consider necessary.
You do not need to include a Cover Sheet (but do include your
name at the top), Table of Contents or Executive Summary in the Week 5
assignment.
You do need to include a Reference section at the end along with
in-text citations identifying all sources used to prepare your assignment,
which should include a substantial listing of originally sourced material from
the online library, quality websites and/or industry sources.
To complete this Module Project submission:
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Submit approximately 1,000 words in which you complete sections
3.0-3.5 of the Strategic Planning Project:
3.0 Marketing Strategy
3.1 Mission
3.2 Marketing Objectives
3.3 Financial Objectives
3.4 Target Markets
3.5 Positioning
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Week 6 Collaboration
Collaboration:
Marketing strategies, part 1 (two-week activity)
More than a decade ago O’Malley and
Patterson (1998) boldly proclaimed ‘The marketing mix is a myth. Theoretically,
it has no foundations. Pedagogically it no longer serves a useful purpose and
practically it has been surpassed in many instances by more dynamic approaches
to marketing. We propose that the mix has now reached its vanishing point.’
Yet the ‘myth’ lives on in marketing
textbooks and among marketing practitioners who find it necessary to make
product, pricing, promotion and distribution channel strategy decisions. In
this week’s collaboration, you will debate the merits of the marketing mix as a
framework for understanding the discipline.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review your notes and readings on the
marketing mix.
To complete this Collaboration:
By Saturday (Day 3)
For your Initial
Response, in 300 to 500 words, address the following:
Do you feel the 4Ps should be retired, or
can they be reconciled with the newer paradigms such as relationship marketing,
SDL and co-creation of value?
Provide a detailed rationale for your
position along with support from external reference sources.
Submit your Initial Response to Turnitin and to the Collaboration forum.
Until Wednesday (Day 7)
Participate by
engaging in a discussion with your colleagues, replying to each other’s posts:
Constructively critique their assessment
of the 4Ps marketing mix. Remember to justify your responses.
Expand upon the topic with your own
insights and findings from the independent research you have done.
Reflect upon ways in which your
classmates’ posts may have reshaped your own views.
Ask clarifying questions.
You should aim to participate with follow-on
postings to your colleagues’ responses, making 3–5 significant follow-up
postings. Aim to spread your total collaboration discussions across 3 separate
days of each week.
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Week
7 Collaboration
Marketing Strategies,
part 2 (two-week activity)
This week, you continue to explore
marketing strategies, moving from micro to macro strategies
For this week’s collaboration, you will
continue to explore marketing strategies, moving from micro strategies such as relationship
marketing to macro strategies such as corporate social responsibility (CSR).
You will consider why organisations choose to pursue ethical business practices
and the potential impact of marketing on individual and societal well-being.
Finally, you will submit a summary of the entire two-week collaboration.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review your notes and readings on social
marketing and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Review your responses from Part 1 of the
collaboration.
To complete this Collaboration:
Until Monday (Day 5)
Continue to participate by engaging in a discussion
with your colleagues, replying to each other’s posts.
In your discussion:
Consider the ethical challenges that are
faced by marketers in making decisions about their product/pricing offerings,
their channel strategies and their integrated marketing communication
programmes. How does unethical behaviour impact consumer and partnership
relationships, as well as the co-creation of value?
Reflect on factors that should cause an
organisation to follow ethical and socially responsible business practices in
this highly interconnected world of 24/7 news and social media. Explain how
each factor might influence an organisation to act responsibly.
Do you feel that there is a bottom-line
case to be built for organisations embracing corporate social responsibility
(CSR) or that their primary concern should be for achieving objectives for
profit, growth etc without regard to the social consequences? Justify your
position with evidence from the readings and/or independent research.
Post an additional 3-5 responses to your
colleagues in which you:
Constructively criticise your colleagues’
assessment of the case for CSR. Remember to justify your responses.
Expand upon the topic with your own
insights and findings from the independent research you have done.
You should aim to participate with follow-on
postings to your colleagues’ responses, making 3–5 significant follow-up
postings. Aim to spread your total collaboration discussions across 3 separate
days of each week.
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Week 7: Module Project: Final submission
This week, you will submit the final
version of your strategic marketing plan report. There is a 4,000-word minimum
and a 5,000-word maximum limit for the main body of this submission (Sections
2.0-5.3).
This submission should include:
A new executive summary at 500 words maximum,
Your Week 3 and Week 5 submissions all revised based on
instructor feedback
The remaining Strategy, Financial and Controls sections
(3.6-5.3)
A full references section.
To complete this Module Project submission:
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Submit the final version of your strategic marketing plan
including:
Cover Sheet; including name, class, title and core word count.
Table of Contents; with page numbers.
Section 1.0 Executive Summary; 500 words maximum.
Section 2.0 Situation Analysis; including:
2.1 Market Summary
2.2 SWOT Analysis
2.3 Competition
2.4 Product Offering
2.5 Keys to Success
2.6 Critical Issues.
Section 3.0 Marketing Strategy; including:
3.1 Mission
3.2 Marketing Objectives
3.3 Financial Objectives
3.4 Target Markets
3.5 Positioning
3.6 Strategies
3.7 Marketing Mix (4 Ps for product offering or 7Ps for services
offering, as appropriate)
3.8 Marketing Research.
Section 4.0 Financials; including:
4.1 Break-Even Analysis
4.2 Sales Forecast (projected over 2 years) and Expenses
Forecast (also over 2 years).
Section 5.0 Controls; including:
5.1 Implementation (scheduled over 2 years)
5.2 Market Organisation
5.3 Contingency Planning (include specific observations on
difficulties and risks and worst-case scenario risks)
References: A list of quality academic and professional articles
and papers, links to websites and other sources (e.g. documented interviews)
which you have consulted in developing your Module Project assignment. All
references must be compiled in accordance with the Harvard Referencing
guidelines.
Submit your Module Project to the Turnitin link provided.
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Week 8 Collaboration: Final Reflection (one-week activity)
This
week, you will reflect on the material presented in this module and how organisations
need to adapt their marketing strategies to meet the changing needs of the
market.
To
prepare for this Collaboration:
Review
the description of the four components of the holistic marketing concept in
Chapter 1 (pages 10-12) of your textbook.
Consider
the past seven weeks’ learning regarding the contribution of relationship
marketing, integrated marketing, internal marketing and social responsibility
marketing to value creation and enhanced marketing performance.
Choose
an organisation with which you are currently working or one that you have been
involved with recently.
To
complete this Collaboration:
By Saturday (Day 3)
For
your Initial Response, in
300–500 words, address the following:
Identify
the marketing practices of your selected organisation that are consistent with
the holistic marketing concept and those that are inconsistent.
Do
you feel that the holistic marketing concept is an appropriate organisational
philosophy to guide this organisation’s marketing efforts? Provide specific
reasons why or why not.
What
changes would you recommend be made in the organisation’s marketing practices
to improve performance? Be sure to provide your rationale for each change.
Submit
your Initial Response to Turnitin and to the Collaboration forum.
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Participate in the Collaboration Forum by
posting 3 to 5 responses to your colleagues in which you:
Constructively
critique their assessment of their organisation’s marketing practices. Remember
to justify your responses.
Expand
upon the topic with your own insights and findings from the independent
research you have done.
Reflect
on ways in which your colleagues’posts may have reshaped your own views. Ask
clarifying questions
You
should aim to participate with follow-on postings to your colleagues’
responses, making 3–5 significant follow-up postings. Aim to spread your total
collaboration discussions across 3 separate days of each week.
Click
on the Reply button below to reveal
the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the Submit button to post your
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Week 8: Personal
Development Plan: Final submission: reflective paper
This
week, you will complete your Personal Development Plan. You will submit your
final reflection on progress towards goals and make
revisions to goals and action plan items, including ideas for future workplace
research (eg problems you might want to pursue for your dissertation at the end
of your MBA programme).
By Wednesday (Day 7)
Complete the formal
update of your PDP.
Submit your final PDP paper to Turnitin.
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