Business Management
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Course Introduction
Business Management provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices involved in effectively managing organizations. The course covers key topics such as strategic planning, organizational structure, leadership, human resource management, marketing, operations, and financial management. Students will explore decision-making processes, the role of managers in various business environments, and the challenges of operating in a globalized world. Through case studies and practical examples, learners will develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for leading successful businesses.
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Essentials of Marketing Management 1st Edition by Greg Marshall
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Chapter 1: Marketing in Todays Global Business Milieu
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Q1) Don Peppers and Martha Rogers promote the idea of ____________.
A) Market orientation
B) Mass customization orientation
C) Differentiation orientation
D) One-to-one marketing orientation
E) Relationship orientation
Answer: D
Q2) Walmart opened its first international store in Canada over 30 years ago.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Bryan gets reduced fees for his daughter's piano lessons by maintaining her teacher's Web site.Bryan is practicing the central tenet of marketing called
A) Value
B) Exchange
C) Growth
D) Sustainability
E) Customization
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Elements of Marketing Strategy and Planning
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Q1) Describe how GE holds each individual SBU accountable for its functional level plans. Answer: A firm's SBU plans all incorporate functional-level plans from operations,marketing,finance,and the other operational areas.Just as the individual SBU CEOs are held accountable for their unit's performance to Jeff Immelt within the context of GE's plan,each SBUs chief marketing officer,chief financial officer,and other operational-level executives is held accountable for the performance of his or her portion of the SBU plan to their own business unit CEO.While GE's system certainly may be larger in scope and complexity than many business-planning situations,the logic is the same regardless of the type or size of an organization.Hence,the marketing plan is nested within the context of an overall corporate and/or business-level strategic plan.
Q2) Strategy has two key phases: formulation and execution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) (Little m)marketing serves as the driver of business strategy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Perspectives on Crm and Marketing Metrics
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Q1) Data mining is about analyzing as much information as possible about customers and potential customers to develop micro-segments.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Define customer satisfaction.
Answer: Customer satisfaction means the level of liking an individual harbors for an offering-that is,to what level is the offering meeting or exceeding the customer's expectations.
Q3) The CRM process cycle may be divided into _____ elements.
A) Four
B) Five
C) Eight D) Ten
E) Twelve
Answer: A
Q4) Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty essentially are the same thing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Managing Marketing Information
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Q1) Secondary data was collected for some other purpose than the problem currently being considered,but has relevance to the current problem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define and give the advantages of the two major types of qualitative data.
Q3) A company uses its information system to explore ways of reducing the wait time for technical support calls from its customers.In this example,the information system is helping address a _______ issue.
A) Tacit
B) Sporadic
C) Paradoxical
D) Strategic
E) Tactical
Q4) A market information system is a software package that companies purchase to help decision makers cope with critical information.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define and give examples of the 3 major types of quantitative data.
Q6) What are the benefits of statistical software for managers/decision makers?
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Chapter 5: Understanding Customers:
Business-To-Consumer Markets
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Q1) What problems can organizational employees experience due to differences in nonverbal communication? How does this affect marketing?
Q2) Personal characteristics refer to demographic and lifestyle attributes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______ is a subjective opinion about something.
A) Belief
B) Motivation
C) Attitude
D) Values
E) Expectations
Q4) Personality trait theories suggest that individuals have unique personal characteristics but it is not possible to measure the differences between people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Give an example of how selective retention can hurt an organization.
Q6) Three psychological tools shape perception: Selective awareness,selective distortion and selective retention.Explain these tools.
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Chapter 6: Understanding Customers:
Business-To-Business Markets
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Q1) Materials,repairs and operational supplies and services,are generally purchased through a ______________.
A) Buying center
B) Buying committee
C) Bid at time of need
D) Straight rebuy
E) Contractual liturgy
Q2) Once a sale is made and the product delivered in the B2B market,the buyer _____.
A) Evaluates the product and supplier in a post purchase process
B) Considers the sale complete
C) Looks for rapid installation of the product
D) Uses pert charts to evaluate time efficiencies
E) None of the above
Q3) Which of the following describes a straight rebuy?
A) Reorder products that are rarely used
B) Put reorders into a buying center to reconsider the supplier
C) Reorder products that are used on a consistent basis
D) Develop a list of suppliers to rank them by price
E) Reorder products after an extensive information search
Q4) Why is the demand for products and services different in a business market?
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Chapter 7: Segmentation,target Marketing,positioning
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Q1) Jane is evaluating Central America as a possible new market for the OTC (over-the-counter)pharmaceutical line she manages.What are some of the barriers the company may face in reaching segments there?
Q2) When JC Penney orders winter coats,it sends them to stores at different times of the year.This is an example of _______.
A) Demographic segmentation
B) Geographic segmentation based on climate
C) Behavioral segmentation
D) Psychographic segmentation
E) Demographic segmentation based on social class
Q3) With reference to the VALS framework,makers are active and impulsive,seeking stimulation from the new,offbeat,and risky.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Under positioning occurs when consumers have a vague idea about the company and its products,and do not perceive any real differentiation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Product Experience: Product Strategy and Building the Brand
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Q1) In the maturity stage of the PLC,consumer goods companies find that they spend
A) A small percentage of their budget on mature products preferring to spend on new products
B) A large percentage of their budget on marketing communications because of the need to support the brand and reinforce key product differentiators
C) A proportionate percentage of their budget on marketing communications in order to maintain their market share and not let new competitors enter the market with ease
D) A lower percentage of their budget on marketing communications in order to milk the product for profitability
E) The same as in the growth stage
Q2) List and describe each of the types of labeling requirements and explain why each is important.
Q3) Compare product lines and product mixes.Give examples of each.
Q4) List and define the 4 basic strategic decisions in defining a brand.Describe the options along with their advantages and drawbacks available for each decision.
Q5) Define product.What is the difference between product and product item?
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Chapter 9: The Product Experience: New-Product
Development and Service
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Q1) It is said that customers do not buy goods or services: They buy _______.
A) Products that come with some services
B) Offerings which render services which create value
C) Services that come in a variety of sizes and shapes
D) Technology that is a service orientation
E) All of the above
Q2) The number of products purchased by the same customer is called repeat purchases.This can be important with things like stereos and cell phones which are considered convenience goods.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Customers are sometimes excellent sources of new product ideas.They typically are not good at coming up with ______.
A) Money making ideas
B) New-to-the-world ideas
C) Ideas that make sense
D) Brand saving ideas
E) None of the above
Q4) What are the five states of the innovation diffusion process?
Q5) Identify three internal issues that may contribute to new product failure.
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Chapter 10: Managing Pricing Decisions
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Q1) ___________occurs when a seller offers different prices to different customers without a substantive basis,such that competition is reduced.
A) Price fixing
B) Price discrimination
C) Deceptive pricing
D) Bait & switch
E) Predatory pricing
Q2) Regardless of whether the setting is B2C or B2B,the vast majority of costs are associated with the purchase price.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Keegan has always followed economics and politics very closely.Over the years,he has become very interested in the ideas of pricing based purely on economic models and solely for profit maximization and how both of these affect ethical concerns.What do you think about Keegan's ideas and the ethical implications of each?
Q4) When is the logic of competitor-base pricing not a rational option?
Q5) Which two price calculations rely heavily on accurate forecasts of products sold?
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Chapter 11: Managing Marketing Channels and the Supply Chain
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Q1) A processing house gathers eggs from individual farm operators for sorting by grade and size,then to be packaged and sent on their way to retailers.The processing house is performing the function of ___________.
A) Reverse logistics
B) Disintermediation
C) Assortment creation
D) Breaking bulk
E) Accumulating bulk
Q2) Manufacturers' costs would skyrocket if they held the responsibility for interfacing with and delivering products to every one of their end users.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You have many shopping goods in your warehouse.You would like to move them out of your warehouse and are researching the various distribution strategies.What strategy would you use?
Q4) What are the differences between a direct and an indirect channel?
Q5) What is the goal of a just in time (JIT)inventory control system?
Q6) In an administered VMS,who is the lead player,and what does it do?
Q7) What are the goals of partner relationship management strategies (PRM)?
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Chapter 12: Points of Customer Interface: Bricks and Clicks
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Q1) What are companies doing to enable them to have customer service available by phone 24 hours a day?
Q2) Tyler's marketing class just visited a warehouse for one of the nation's top electronic companies.While in the warehouse Tyler was amazed at the number of televisions he could count.The warehouse manager explained that the television company produces hundreds of TV's a day,and then ships them to the various retailers,so that the retailers can make them available to the customers.Why is it important for the retailer to be a part of this system?
Q3) With ______________ the potential market includes almost everyone with cable television in the United States,however the actual number of viewers is small.
A) Direct selling
B) Television home shopping
C) Vending machine retailing
D) Catalog retailing
E) Electronic retailing
Q4) Assortment is the number of product categories offered by a retailer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the difference between variety and assortment?
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Chapter 13: Integrated Marketing Communications: Promotional Strategy, advertisig
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Q1) Promotion feeds _______________ through strong persuasive communication.
A) Attention
B) Interest
C) Desire
D) Action
E) Advertise
Q2) List and describe the steps of the AIDA model.
Q3) Describe why targeting Gen Y and Millennials are a more challenging target audience for marketers than older people.
Q4) Describe the pros and cons of advertising,sales promotion,personal selling,and direct and interactive marketing in the promotion mix.
Q5) What promotion mix elements should be the focus of a pull strategy?
Q6) ___________________ is an interactive marketing system that uses personal communication with a customer by means other than a salesperson.
A) Advertising
B) Sales promotion
C) Direct marketing
D) Public relations
E) Personal selling
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Chapter 14: Integrated Marketing Communications:
Personal Selling, direct Market
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Q1) What are three reasons Geographical organization tends to have the lowest cost?
Q2) _____ drive(s)interactive marketing,controlling when,where,and how they interact.
A) The company
B) Intermediaries
C) Salespeople
D) Customers
E) Sales managers
Q3) Which of the following is a way in which B2B selling differs from B2C?
A) Good interpersonal and communication skills are needed in B2C but not in B2B.
B) Many of the goods and services sold by B2B salespeople are more expensive and technically complex than those in B2C.
C) Excellent knowledge of the products being sold is vital in B2B but not in B2C.
D) An ability to discover customer needs and solve their problems is relevant only to B2B selling.
E) B2C customers tend to be larger and engage in extensive decision-making processes involving many people.
Q4) What are the three types of online advertising discussed in the book?
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