Sony case study
A useful exercise looking at Sony and their approach to marketing and advertising.
10.4 Investigating marketing campaigns
You need to research real campaigns and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the underlying marketing decisions. This will include how effective the campaign was, based on the following criteria:
10.3 Research to inform marketing decisions
The type of research carried out will depend on:
• the element of the marketing mix being addressed
• the type of market.
10.2 Marketing decisions and the planning process
You need to understand how to produce plans for the development of the marketing mix using tools such as:
• product life cycle
• Ansoff
• portfolio analysis tools, eg the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix.
10.1 Influences on marketing decisions
You need to understand the wide range of influences on an organisation, both internal and external, and the types of decisions that have to be made relating to these influences in order to keep the organisation moving forward in line with management plans. To achieve this, organisations have different marketing objectives, strategic or tactical, depending [...]
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Unit 8 – Business Development
Key information for the unit
unit-8-work.doc
Unit 8, Task 3 – Finance
Here are all the files that you will need for task 3, Financial Projection, for Applied Business Unit 8
Easyjet Case Study
Have you ever wondered how much money EasyJet makes per flight?
Business Aims, Ojectives and Organisation – Part I
The main objective for any business is to satisfy their customers. That is to say, businesses to succeed must provide what their customers want. There is no right or wrong, no one method to satisfy customers. Some customers
A2 predictor
Open the spreadsheet below and enter anticipated grades to see what grade you are on target for…
grades.xls
Tasks 7, 8 and 9 – marketing
Important guidance for tasks 7, 8 and 9 from Unit 3, Marketing for Applied Business.
task-7-to-9.doc
Peter Drucker
The man who invented management
The story of Peter Drucker is the story of the rise of the modern corporation and the managers who organize work. But a humanistic regard for employees and a critique of the abuses of capitalism were also a crucial part of his legacy. In this podcast John Byrne tells us [...]
Secrets of the male shopper
Who he is, what he’s buying, and why marketers want him
BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne, and Senior Writer Nanette Byrnes talk about why marketers are finally paying attention to the half of the male population they’ve been missing….
Taken from: http://www.businessweek.com
Woz on Leadership
Part two in a series of discussions with Steve Wozniak.
Woz chats to Martin about people, leadership and building the first PC.
Building Apple
Part one in a series of discussions with Steve Wozniak.
Steve discusses how he met Steve Jobs and together built Apple.
Richard Branson on technology of tomorrow
Run Time: 7mins 40secs
Martin chats to Sir Richard Branson about the importance of technology, innovation, people and new flight experiences….
Taken from: http://www.tot2008.com/video19.asp
Unit 3 Market Research
Information for the market research:
Start Up Costs and Running Costs
If you are struggling to think of start up and running costs…..
Software – notes from lesson
Pictures of the software work
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