Competitive Marketing Strategies: Analyzing Your Organization


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
It takes a certain amount of marketing innovation to win customers today. When developing a competitive marketing strategy, conducting effective research is a key step. You need to assess your organizational capabilities and advertising activities. In this course, you'll learn how to assess an organization's core capabilities and how to conduct a marketing audit. This course also describes how to conduct an internal analysis as part of the process of developing competitive marketing strategies. It explains the types of questions you may need to ask about your organizational resources and capabilities. And it describes areas to consider when doing a marketing audit and looking at innovation activities.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants to develop or refine their marketing skills.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

Lesson Objectives

Competitive Marketing Strategies: Analyzing Your Organization

  • recognize the purpose of competitive marketing strategies
  • categorize examples of resources and competencies important for creating and maintaining competitive advantage
  • recognize the steps in identifying important organizational capabilities
  • identify areas of focus when analyzing your organization's marketing strategy and structure
  • recognize aspects to examine when analyzing your organization's systems, productivity, and marketing mix
  • identify examples of what you should consider when conducting an innovation audit
  • Course Number:
    mkt_05_a05_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone