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Chapter 6 Scanning the Marketing Environment by

Chapter 6 Scanning the Marketing Environment by. PowerPoint by Milton M. Pressley University of New Orleans. Kotler on Marketing. Today you have to run faster to stay in place. Chapter Objectives. In this chapter, we focus on two questions:

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  1. Chapter 6Scanning the Marketing Environmentby PowerPoint by Milton M. Pressley University of New Orleans

  2. Kotler on Marketing Today you have to run faster to stay in place.

  3. Chapter Objectives • In this chapter, we focus on two questions: • What are the key methods for tracking and identifying opportunities in the macroenvironment? • What are the key demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural developments?

  4. Analyzing Needs and Trends in the Macroenvironment • Trend • Fad • Megatrends

  5. Discussion Question Given the definitions for fads, trends, and megatrends presented in the text, how would you define youronline activities? Can you identify an online trend that is likely to grow into a megatrend?

  6. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • The substantial speedup of international transportation, communication, and financial transactions, leading to the rapid growth of world trade and investment, especially tripolar trade (North America, Western Europe, Far East) • The movement of manufacturing capacity and skills to lower cost countries. • The rising economic power of several Asian countries in world markets. • The rise of trade blocks such as the European Union and NAFTA signatories.

  7. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • The severe debt problems of a number of countries, along with the increasing fragility of the international financial system. • The increasing use of barter and countertrade to support international transactions. • The move toward market economies in formerly socialist countries along with rapid privatization of publicly owned companies. • The rapid dissemination of global lifestyles. • The gradual opening of major new markets, namely China, India, eastern Europe, the Arab countries, and Latin America.

  8. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • The increasing tendency of multinationals to transcend their locational and national characteristics and become transnational firms. • The increasing number of cross-border corporate strategic alliances–for example, MCI and British Telecom, and Texas Instruments and Hitachi. • The increasing ethnic and religious conflicts in certain countries and regions. • The growth of global brands in autos, food, clothing, electronics.

  9. Figure 6-1: Colgate-Palmolive’s Total Global Branding StrategyColgate-Palmolive has had global success with its Colgate line of tooth-care products. The products and their packaging design do not vary from country to country; the only thing that changes is the language on the packages.

  10. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Demographic Environment • Worldwide Population Growth • Population Age Mix • Ethnic and Other Markets

  11. Discussion Question Can you identify one or more nations whose populations hold the promise of huge potential markets for consumer goods? How have pressures from potential marketers to these untapped consumer groups driven the political discussion on a national and international level?

  12. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Educational Groups • Household Patterns • Geographical Shifts in Population • From a Mass Market to Micromarkets

  13. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Economic Environment • Income Distribution • Savings, Debt, and Credit Availability

  14. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Natural Environment • Shortage of Raw Materials • Increased Energy Cost • Anti-Pollution Pressures • Changing Role of Governments

  15. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Technological Environment • Accelerating Pace of Change • Unlimited Opportunities for Innovation

  16. Figure 6-2: Virtual Reality Applications in MarketingVirtual Reality technology lets users interact with computer-generated worlds through sight, sound, and touch.

  17. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Varying R&D Budgets • Increased Regulation of Technological Change • Political-Legal Environment • Legislation Regulating Business • Growth of Special-Interest Groups • Consumerist movement

  18. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • Social-Cultural Environment • Views of themselves • Views of others • Views of organizations • Views of society • Views of nature • Views of universe

  19. Identifying and Responding to the Major Macroenvironment Forces • High Persistence of Core Cultural Values • Existence of subcultures • Subcultures • Shifts of Secondary Cultural Values Through Time

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