Hassan Sherwani ROLE OF SALES AND MARKETING IN ... - Oulu
Hassan Sherwani ROLE OF SALES AND MARKETING IN ... - Oulu
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Electricity industry used to be considered as monopoly but, this trend has been changed<br />
thanks to internationalization. Moreover, other factors such as global economic<br />
transformation, government policies and environment concerns are other key reasons.<br />
With these critical changes, there is a challenge to sales and marketing because it cannot<br />
work on traditional set of strategies. Therefore, organizations need to transform their<br />
internal strategies related to sales and marketing to cop against the external challenges.<br />
Hence, there is an analysis how much sales and marketing contribute to provide<br />
competitive advantage in this fast evolving electricity industry.<br />
Following sub-question is established to support the response of the leading research<br />
question;<br />
What level of integration between marketing and sales is sufficient to address issues<br />
related to ever transforming energy market?<br />
Changing trends<br />
Sales and<br />
marketing<br />
Electricity<br />
Industry<br />
Figure 1: The scope of thesis<br />
1.3 Aims and Objectives of the research<br />
Initially the thesis aims to determine the nature, extent and effect of technology in the<br />
electricity distribution business globally and especially within Finnish market. In that