2. Overview
„ Marketing: A Universal Discipline
„ The Three Principles of Marketing
„ Global Marketing:What It Is & What It Is Not
„ Importance of Global Marketing
„ Management Orientation & Global Marketing
„ Driving and Restraining Forces Affecting Global
Integration & Global Marketing
„ Summary
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3. Learning Objectives
„ Understand how the world economy developed over
the past decades
„ Know the impact of globalization on the marketing
discipline
„ Learn about the interdependencies between
management orientation & marketing performance
„ Understand the factors supporting or inhibiting
international marketing activities
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4. Marketing: A Universal Discipline
„ Marketing (1): the process of focusing the resources &
objectives of an organization on environmental
opportunities & needs
„ Marketing (2): a set of concepts, tools, theories,
practices, procedures, & experiences
„ Although marketing is a universal discipline,
marketing practice varies from country to country
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5. The Marketing Concept (1)
„ Concept has chanced dramatically
„ 1950’s: Focus on products
„ 1960’s:
ƒ Focus on customer orientation
ƒ Development of marketing mix: product, price, place,
promotion (4P’s)
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6. The Marketing Concept (2)
„ 1990’s:
ƒ Focus on customer in the context of the broader external
environment
‚ Competition, government policy & regulation
ƒ Focus on stakeholder value
‚ employees, customers, shareholders, society
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7. The Marketing Concept (3)
„ Today:
ƒ Two key tasks of marketing
‚ Focus on customer & his/her environment
‚ Create value for consumers & stakeholder
ƒ Shift towards
‚ Focus on managing strategic partnerships
‚ Positioning of firm in value chain to optimize value
creation
ƒ Profit as a measure of success, not an end in itself
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8. The Three Principles of Marketing
CUSTOMER VALUE
DIFFERENTIATION FOCUS
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9. Key Elements of Marketing –
1. Customer Value
„ Goal: create customer value that is greater than the
value created by competitors
„ Strategy:
ƒ Expand or improve product and/ or service benefits
ƒ Reduce the price
ƒ Combine these two elements
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10. Elements of Marketing –
Customer Value
V=B/P
V = Value
B = Perceived Benefits – Perceived Costs
P = Price
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11. Key Elements of Marketing –
2. Differentiation
„ Goal: create competitive advantage through
differentiation
„ Advantage can exist in any element of a company’s
offer
„ One way to penetrate a new national market is to
offer a superior product at a lower price.
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12. Key Elements of Marketing –
3. Focus
„ Goal: a concentration of attention & resources
„ Requirement to create customer value at a
competitive advantage
„ A viable way for small & medium sized companies
to achieve dominant position in world market
„ A clear focus on customer needs & wants
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13. Global Marketing
„ Marketing discipline is universal but markets &
customers are quite different
„ 3 domains of knowledge
ƒ Cross-Cultural Knowledge
ƒ Country/ Regional Knowledge
ƒ Cross-Border Transactions Knowledge
„ Need for “Global Localization”: Adjustment of
global marketing strategies to local requirements
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14. Examples of Global Marketing
Product Canon/photocopier/McDonalds/Toyota/Ford
Design
Brand Name Marlboro/Coke/Pepsi/Mercedes/Caterpillar
Product Colgate toothpaste/Unilever fabric softener
Positioning
Packaging Gillette razors
Advertising Coca-cola/British Airways/Benetton
Strategy
Sales IBM
Promotion
Distribution Benetton/United Distillers
Customer American Express/Hertz
Service
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15. Importance of Global Marketing
„ International arena is of great importance to
companies maximizing growth potential
„ 75% of market potential is outside the US
„ 94% of market potential for German companies is
outside of Germany
„ A large number of industries will be dominated by a
handful of global companies
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16. Management Orientation and Global
Marketing (1)
„ Different Management Orientations in the Global
Arena – EPRG Framework
Polycentric
Ethnocentric
Regiocentric Geocentric
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17. Management Orientation & Global
Marketing (2)
„ Ethnocentric Orientation:
ƒ Characteristic of domestic & international companies
ƒ Opportunities outside the home market are pursued by
extending various elements of the marketing mix
„ Polycentric Orientation
ƒ Characteristic of multinational companies
ƒ Marketing mix is adapted by autonomous country
managers
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18. Management Orientation & Global
Marketing (3)
„ Regiocentric or Geocentric Orientation:
ƒ Characteristic of global & transnational companies
ƒ Marketing opportunities are pursued by both extension &
adaptation strategies in global markets
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19. Driving Forces Affecting Global Marketing
ƒ Technology
ƒ Regional Economic Agreements
ƒ Market Needs & Wants
ƒ Transportation & Communication Improvements
ƒ Product Development Costs
ƒ Quality
ƒ World Economic Trends
ƒ Leverage
ƒ The Global/ Transnational Corporation
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20. Restraining Forces Affecting Global
Marketing
ƒ Management Myopia & Organizational Culture
ƒ National Controls & Barriers
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21. Summary
„ Global marketing is the process of focusing
resources on global marketing opportunities
„ Goal, to create customer value & competitive
advantage by maintaining focus
„ Three classifications of management orientation:
ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, geocentric
„ Global marketing importance is shaped by a variety
of driving & restraining forces
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