Hassan Sherwani ROLE OF SALES AND MARKETING IN ... - Oulu
Hassan Sherwani ROLE OF SALES AND MARKETING IN ... - Oulu
Hassan Sherwani ROLE OF SALES AND MARKETING IN ... - Oulu
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There is a good opportunity to improve marketing effectiveness, with input from the<br />
sales teams leading to marketing initiatives that are more likely to reflect customer<br />
needs, and that are well- planned and coordinated with sales, reducing mistakes in<br />
expensive marketing pieces. The other underlying benefit is the improvement of sales<br />
effectiveness with more focused marketing initiatives helping to increase the closing<br />
ratio and the average sale per customer, as well as to improve customer satisfaction.<br />
6.2 Theoretical Implications<br />
The research is implemented on the basis of the empirical study. Furthermore, the<br />
analysis of the empirical study relies in the opinions of the interviewed staff from <strong>Oulu</strong>n<br />
Sähkönmyynti Oy. The findings of the study are partly in line with the theoretical<br />
reviews and the main contribution of this study is to raise issues that are of greatest<br />
importance in terms of sales and marketing contribution towards electricity industry.<br />
The essence of providing this research is to see how these above mentioned factors<br />
change macro and micro level infra-structure and as the main emphasis of thesis work is<br />
sales and marketing functions therefore, the effect of these factors on an organization is<br />
studied. There is a case company and the company’s sales and marketing activities have<br />
been investigated under the light of this changing pattern in business context. Moreover,<br />
there is an investigation of governmental laws and regulations and their influence on<br />
organization. In addition, it is interesting to see how Finnish company would adopt its<br />
sales and marketing ventures and as discussed earlier, does it focus on separate roles of<br />
these two functions or emphasize on collaboration. The research work highlights<br />
alignment of sales and marketing functions along with some of the key aspect of<br />
theoretical framework discussed in Chapter 3. The research can be utilized later for<br />
searching and studying the possible synergies between macro and micro environment of<br />
electricity industry at large.<br />
As discussed earlier, macro level is composed of distinguish factors such as economics,<br />
demographics, social conditions, technological changes, natural forces and government<br />
regulations. As laws and regulation within Finnish market are pretty much consistent as<br />
shown in section 3.1 therefore, this thesis work has not discussed macro level issues at<br />
large. In current scenario, governments are really concerned about socio-economic