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MARKETING MANAGEMENT
12th edition

3
Gathering
Information and
Scanning the
Environment

Kotler

Keller

Chapter Questions_1
• What are the components of a modern
marketing information system?
• What are useful internal records?
• What is involved in a marketing
intelligence system?

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Chapter Questions_2
• What are the key methods for tracking
and identifying opportunities in the
macroenvironment?
• What are some important
macroenvironment developments?

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MIS Probes for Information
• What decisions do you regularly make?
• What information do you need to make these
decisions?
• What information do you regularly get?
• What special studies do you periodically request?
• What information would you want that you are not
getting now?
• What are the four most helpful improvements that
could be made in the present marketing

information system?
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Internal Records

Order-to-Payment
Cycle

Sales
Information
System

Databases,
Warehousing,
Data Mining

Marketing
Intelligence
System


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Steps to Improve Marketing Intelligence

Train
Train sales
sales force
force to
to scan
scan for
for new
new developments
developments
Motivate
Motivate channel
channel members
members to
to share
share intelligence
intelligence

Network
Network externally
externally
Utilize
Utilize aa customer
customer advisory
advisory panel
panel
Utilize
Utilize government
government data
data resources
resources
Purchase
Purchase information
information
Collect
Collect customer
customer feedback
feedback online

online
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Table 3.2
Secondary Commercial Data Sources

Nielsen

SAMI/Burke

MRCA

Simmons

Information
Resources, Inc.

Arbitron
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Needs and Trends
Fad
Trend
Megatrend
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10 Megatrends Shaping the
Consumer Landscape
• Aging boomers
• Delayed retirement
• Changing nature of
work
• Greater educational
attainment
• Labor shortages

• Increased immigration
• Rising Hispanic
influence
• Shifting birth trends

• Widening geographic
differences
• Changing age
structure
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Environmental Forces
Demographic
Political-Legal

Economic

Technological

Socio-Cultural
Natural
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Population and Demographics







Size
Growth rate
Age distribution
Ethnic mix
Educational
levels

• Household
patterns
• Regional
characteristics
• Movement

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Mattel
Markets in
China

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Population Age Groups

65+
40-65
25-40
Teens
School-age
Preschool
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Schwab’s Chinese-language Web site

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Household Patterns

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Economic Environment

$ Purchasing Power

$ Income Distribution
$ Savings Rate
$ Debt
$ Credit Availability

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Types of Industrial Structures

Industrial
economies


Industrializing
economies

Raw-materialexporting
economies

Subsistence
economies

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India – An Industrializing
Economy

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Saudi Arabia –
A Raw-Material Exporting Economy

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The Gap
“look” is
recognizable
everywhere
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Social-Cultural Environment
Views
Views of
of themselves
themselves
Views
Views of
of others
others
Views
Views of
of organizations
organizations
Views
Views of
of society
society
Views
Views of
of nature
nature
Views
Views of
of the
the universe
universe
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Table 3.4 Most Popular American
Leisure Activities







Walking
Gardening
Swimming
Photography
Bicycling
Fishing








Bowling
Camping
Jogging
Free weights
Golf
Continuing
education

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Natural Environment
Shortage of
raw materials
Increased
energy costs
Anti-pollution
pressures
Governmental
protections
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Technological Environment
Pace of change
Opportunities
for innovation
Varying R&D
budgets
Increased regulation
of change
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Political-Legal Environment

Increase in
business legislation

Growth of special
interest groups

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Unit Pricing on Store Shelves

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Marketing Debate

Take a position:
1. Age differences are fundamentally
more important than cohort effects.
2. Cohort effects can dominate age
differences.
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Marketing Discussion

What brands do you feel successfully
speak to you? Effectively target your
age group? Why? Which ones do not?

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