Strategic Management
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Strategic Management focuses on the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to achieve organizational objectives and sustain competitive advantage. The course explores key concepts such as environmental analysis, competitive positioning, resource-based theory, and strategic decision-making processes. Through case studies and practical applications, students learn how organizations navigate complex business environments, assess internal capabilities, and respond to external opportunities and threats. The course emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and leadership skills required for strategic planning in dynamic and global markets.
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Strategic Marketing 10th Edition by David Cravens
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Chapter 1: New Challenges for Market Driven Strategy
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Q1) Which of the following activities is an example of promotion strategy?
A) Distinctive capabilities
B) Benchmarking
C) Public relations
D) Product positioning
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following stages of marketing strategy process considers organizational design and marketing strategy implementation and control?
A) Implementing and managing market-driven strategy
B) Designing market-driven strategy
C) Identifying and evaluating markets, segments, and customer value
D) Market-driven program development
Answer: A
Q3) Synergies highlight competencies,resources,and capabilities that drive efficiency and effectiveness in the business.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Markets and Competitive Space
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Q1) Sales forecasts,typically,fall short of market potential.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Market entry by a new competitor is likely under which of the following conditions?
A) When markets have matured and growth is slow
B) When major market-entry barriers are present
C) When competition is limited to one or a few competitors
D) When market incumbents' profit margins have declined
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is the first step in defining and analyzing product-markets?
A) Forecasting market size
B) Determining the boundaries of the market
C) Analyzing competition
D) Predicting rate of change of the market
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Strategic Market Segmentation
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Q1) Explain the goal of strategic marketing segmentation.
Answer: The goal of strategic marketing segmentation is to support processes whereby products are designed and developed around the needs of different types of purchaser to offer superior customer value,and then to identify the mechanisms by which that value can be delivered.This requires segmenting markets in ways that reflect how customers actually live their lives and the jobs that they need to get done.
Q2) The _____ strategy follows the logic that buyers who are offered alternatives may increase their total purchases of a brand.
A) variety-seeking
B) mass customization
C) microsegmentation
D) macrosegmentation
Answer: A
Q3) The use situation variables describe brand-use and consumption.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Strategic Customer Management: Systems,
ethics, and Social Responsibility
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Q1) In the value creation process,the benefits the customer receives are expressed by the customer strategy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is customer lifetime value? How is it calculated?
Q3) Which of the following is a pitfall to be avoided when implementing CRM initiatives?
A) Creating a customer strategy before implementing CRM
B) Putting CRM in place before changing the organization to match
C) Matching the technology to the customer strategy
D) Investing in building relationships with interested customers
Q4) Which of the following activities hinders the successful implementation of CRM initiatives?
A) Creating a customer strategy before implementing CRM
B) Changing the organization before putting CRM in place
C) Matching the technology to the customer strategy
D) Investing in building relationships with disinterested customers
Q5) The sum of CLV for all the customers of a firm is termed as business case.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Capabilities for Learning About Customers and Markets
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Q1) Market sensing is concerned with the ability of organizations to continuously learn about their markets,and acts as an antecedent to market orientation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The markets are best understood if the firm has a fixed view on what information will influence the firm.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Megagro,a groceries retail chain,demonstrated the market sensing process of _____ when it hired researchers to survey the refrigerator contents and lifestyles of 90 families-checking average family size,gross family income,what the families ate for breakfast,and how often they shopped for groceries.
A) scanning the periphery of the market
B) encouraging experimentation
C) searching for latent customer needs
D) analyzing competitors' actions
Q4) What is the role of management information systems (MISs) in data collection?
Q5) Give an account of the barriers that affect the market learning processes.
Q6) List the market-sensing processes used by market-driven companies.
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Chapter 6: Market Targeting and Strategic Positioning
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Q1) Explain how test marketing can help assess positioning effectiveness.
Q2) The positioning _____ indicates management's desired positioning of the product (brand) in the eyes and minds of the targeted buyers.
A) strategy
B) concept
C) effectiveness
D) location
Q3) Briefly explain the four life cycle stages of the product-market environment.
Q4) The positioning _____ is the positioning initiative which combines marketing program (mix) policies used to portray the positioning desired by management to the targeted buyers.It includes the product (good or service),supporting services,distribution channels,price,and promotion actions taken by the organization.
A) effectiveness
B) concept
C) strategy
D) location
Q5) Identify and discuss the three possible targeting strategies in growth markets.
Q6) Explain the consumer behavior of buyers in mature markets affecting brand management.
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Chapter 7: Strategic Relationships
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Q1) Which of the following should be considered for a successful alliance disengagement plan?
A) Identifying and agreeing on the events that will trigger exit from the alliance
B) Design of the engagement process
C) Restructuring and cost-reduction
D) Developing new markets and building market position
Q2) Alliances are agreements between two or more firms to establish a separate entity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing firm activities?
Q4) Moving products through various stages in the value-added process often involves linking suppliers,manufacturers,distributors,and consumer and business end-users of goods and services into _____ channels.
A) lateral
B) vertical
C) horizontal
D) parallel
Q5) Describe the different forms of organizational relationships.
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Chapter 8: Innovation and New Product Strategy
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Q1) Product _____ refers to when a new product attracts sales from an existing product.
A) cannibalization
B) knockdown
C) scaffolding
D) benchmarking
Q2) How can innovations be classified? What are the different types of innovations?
Q3) The _____ is a form of innovation through collaborative relationships where anybody can propose problems,offer solutions,and decide which solutions to use.
A) elite circle
B) innovation mall
C) innovation community
D) consortium
Q4) Which of the following is the first step in the new-product-planning process?
A) Idea generation
B) Marketing strategy development
C) Product development
D) Customer needs analysis
Q5) Explain the importance of concept evaluation in new-product planning.
Q6) Describe how focus groups help generate new-product ideas.
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Chapter 9: Strategic Brand Management
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Q1) A name,term,design,symbol,or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers is known as a(n) _____.
A) product
B) merchandise
C) brand
D) advertisement
Q2) Which of the following leads to a negative impact on brand management?
A) Reduced customer search costs
B) Fragmentation of markets and media
C) Increased brand loyalty
D) Reduction in buyer's perceived risk
Q3) Moving the brand down is relatively easy to pursue since it benefits from the image of the higher-level brand.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Brands that have been successful over a long time period offer useful insights about brand strategy management.Discuss some of these insights.
Q5) What functions do brands serve for sellers?
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Chapter 10: Value Chain Strategy
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Q1) If a company decides to distribute its products in many of the retail outlets in a trading area that might normally carry such a product,it is using a(n) _____ distribution approach.
A) exclusive
B) intensive
C) selective
D) moderate
Q2) Consumer-products manufacturers often direct advertising to _____to help pull products through distribution channels.
A) middlemen
B) consumers
C) distributors
D) retailers
Q3) A primary feature of a vertical marketing system is the management (or coordination) of the distribution channel collectively by the organizations involved.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the major issues in deciding distribution intensity.
Q5) Discuss the factors that influence distribution decision.
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Chapter 11: Pricing Strategy
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Q1) Which of the following is the first step in selecting a pricing strategy?
A) Setting pricing objectives
B) Analyzing the pricing situation
C) Selecting pricing strategy
D) Determining specific prices and policies
Q2) The competitor is the frame of reference for demand-oriented pricing methods.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When using markup pricing,which of the following formulas determines the selling price?
A) Price = Average unit cost divided by Markup percentage
B) Price = Average unit cost divided by 1 minus Markup percentage
C) Price = Unit cost minus Markup price
D) Price = Total fixed costs divided by Unit price minus Unit variable cost
Q4) Explain the various roles of price in the marketing program.
Q5) Give an account of predatory pricing.What are its ethical implications?
Q6) Reverse auction pricing involves sellers bidding for organizational buyers' purchases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Promotion, advertising, and Sales Promotion Strategies
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Q1) Which of the following is a disadvantage of advertising?
A) It has high cost per exposure.
B) It has fixed messages for the duration of an exposure.
C) It does not allow much creativity in message design.
D) It provides low control of message content.
Q2) An advantage of personal selling over advertising is its flexibility in responding to the buyer's objections and questions at the time the decision to purchase is being made.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____ consists of planning,implementing,and controlling an organization's communications to its customers and other target audiences.
A) Promotion strategy
B) Distribution program
C) Benchmarking
D) Planned obsolescence
Q4) List the activities involved in designing an organization's promotion strategy.
Q5) Identify the advantages and disadvantages of advertising.
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Q6) Define and explain the benefits of the objective and task method of promotion budget.
Chapter 13: Sales, digital, and Direct Marketing Strategies
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Q1) _____ for analyzing sales force assume that size of the sales force and/or effort deployment are determined by one factor,such as market potential or workload whose values can be used to determine required selling effort.
A) Revenue/cost analysis techniques
B) Single-factor models
C) Sales and effort response models
D) Portfolio deployment models
Q2) _____ selling provides assistance and support to value chain members rather than obtaining sales.
A) New business
B) Consultative/technical
C) Missionary
D) Trade
Q3) Which of the following initiatives of forming a salesforce strategy requires deciding how personal selling is expected to contribute to the marketing program?
A) Determining the role of the sales force in the promotion strategy
B) Selecting the selling process
C) Deciding if and how alternative sales channels will be utilized
D) Designing the sales
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Chapter 14: Designing Market-Driven Organizations
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Q1) A key advantage of functional organizational design is its customer focus.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the dependence of innovation and growth on knowledge workers.What should the management of these workers emphasize on?
Q3) A key characteristic of new organizations is an emphasis on managing organizational process,rather than a primary emphasis on structure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following does the management of knowledge workers emphasize on?
A) Formal structures
B) Talent management
C) Reporting lines
D) Conventional culture
Q5) Explain the issue of integration vs.diffusion in the organizational design of marketing.
Q6) Explain the importance of organizational agility and flexibility.
Q7) Explain the traditional organizational structure and its limitations.
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Chapter 15: Strategic Marketing Implementation and Control
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Q1) Discuss factors that influence the implementation of a marketing strategy.
Q2) Which of the following is the strategic marketing audit used for?
A) To translate broadly defined marketing strategy into very specific actions
B) To provide a means to link performance evaluation to strategy implementation
C) To ensure that activities in one area do not interfere with activities in another area
D) To initiate a formal strategic marketing planning program
Q3) The balanced scorecard method is used to implement marketing plans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following approaches is a quality control technique useful in determining when operating results are fluctuating normally or instead are disorderly?
A) Value chain analysis
B) Statistical process-control methods
C) Benchmarking
D) Data-control processes
Q5) What are the core tasks of a CMO?
Q6) Explain the dimensions of the marketing planning process.
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Q7) Discuss how organizational designs help implement a strategic marketing plan.