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MKC1
Fundamentals of Marketing and Business Communication
Question | Answer |
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What is a value proposition? | a thirty-second “elevator speech” stating the specific benefits a product or service offering provides a buyer. It shows why the product or service is superior to competing offers. |
What are corporate level plans? | Plans developed for the corporation as a whole. |
What is a strategic business unit (SBU)? | A business or product line within an organization that has its own competitors, customers, and profit center for accounting purposes. |
What are business level plans? | Plans developed for each SBU. They typically have their own mission statement. |
What is the first mover strategy? | A corporate level strategy that theorizes that the first organization to offer a product in the marketplace (innovator) will be the long term market leader. |
What is the second mover strategy? | A corporate level strategy that theorizes that closely observing the innovations of first movers, and then improving them can help an organization gain marketplace advantage. |
What is the strategic planning process? | The process an organization takes to allocate it's resources under different conditions to accomplish it's objectives, deliver value, and be competitive. |
What is a situation analysis? | An assessment of an organization's internal and external environments. |
What are some examples of things that are a part of an organization's internal environment? | Capability of its personnel, financial resources, technology, etc. |
What are some examples of things that are part of an organization's external environment? | Competitors, Economy, etc. |
What is a SWOT analysis? | An analysis of an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. |
What are Michael Porter's 5 forces? | Potential new entrants, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, substitutes, and competitive rivalry. |
What is a mystery shopper? | A person who is hired to visit a company or one of it's competitors as a customer to observe their level of customer service, cleanliness, quality, etc. |