Summary
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Subject index
Fully revised and updated, Problems in Marketing includes over 50 new problems. This varied and challenging collection of problems has been written as a learning aid to any marketing textbook. The problems cover a wide range of marketing practice, each problem concentrating on a single concept or technique of marketing management. Problems begin with a full introduction to the concept followed by explicit instructions for solving them. This leads directly to a series of discussion questions to further enhance the application of each problem. A companion Web site with resources for students and instructors is available:Click here to access the companion web site.
Positioning, Product and Pricing
Product strategies specify market needs that may be served by different product offerings. It is a company's product strategies, duly related to market strategies, that eventually come to dominate both overall strategy and the spirit of the company. Product strategies deal with such matters as number and diversity of products, product innovations, product scope and product design.
The implementation of product strategies requires cooperation among different groups: finance, research and development, the corporate staff, and marketing. This level of integration makes product strategies difficult to develop and implement. In many companies, to achieve proper coordination among diverse business units, product strategy decisions are made by top management.
In some companies, the overall scope of product strategy is laid out at ...
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