Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Elective: Marketing Management (Part - 1)




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Elective: Marketing Management (Part - 1)

Attend any 4 questions.  Each question carries 25 marks
(Each answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words)


1.Describe Marketing Myopia symptoms according to Prof. Levitt.

Answer : We always know when an HBR article hits the big time. Journalists write about it, pundits talk about it, executives route copies of it around the organization, and its vocabulary becomes familiar to managers everywhere—sometimes to the point where they don’t even associate the words with the original article. Most important, of course, managers change how they do business because the ideas in the piece helped them see issues in a new light.

Marketing Myopia” is the quintessential big hit



2.Examine why new product fail.

Answer : As important as it is to engage in continuous product development, many of these new products will fail. New product failure rates have been recorded that are as high as eighty percent, and as low as fifty percent. Which figure we believe is dependent upon how 'failure' and 'new product' are defined. There also are many reasons why new products fail.  This section defines what is meant by the term 'failure' and summarizes the major reasons normally offered for why products do fail.

Types of Product Failures



3.Discuss the details of the distinct steps for positioning a brand.

Answer : Determining Positioning Strategy.

All of us know that it is a complex and difficult task to identify and select a positioning strategy. Lets us discuss the steps involved in positioning strategy, there are basically six-step that are adopted.
In each of the steps, marketing research techniques can be employed to get the necessary information. These steps are discussed as follows:

(1) Identifying the Competitors - A first step is to identify the competition. This step is not as simple as it seems to be. For example, ‘Pepsi ‘ might



4.Explain the pricing methods based on demand.
Answer : The pricing method you select provides direction on how to set your product price. The way you set prices in your business will change over time, for many reasons. As you learn more about your customers and competition, you may decide to change your pricing method. Use changes in the industry or the development stage of your product as an indicator that it’s time to review your pricing strategy.

There are three basic methods to price your product:




5.How to prevent a price war? Explain.
Answer :


6.Explain the different steps in Direct Marketing.

Answer :


25 x 4=100 marks

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