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DEVELOPING MARKETING STRATEGIES AND PLANS | CHAPTER 2 37<br />

TABLE 2.1<br />

Some Examples of Master Marketers<br />

Amazon.com Electrolux Progressive Insurance<br />

Bang & Olufsen Enterprise Rent-A-Car Ritz-Carlton<br />

Barnes & Noble Google Samsung<br />

Best Buy Harley-Davidson Sony<br />

BMW Honda Southwest Airlines<br />

Borders IKEA Starbucks<br />

Canon LEGO Target<br />

Caterpillar McDonald’s Tesco<br />

Club Med Nike Toyota<br />

Costco Nokia Virgin<br />

Disney Nordstrom Walmart<br />

eBay Procter & Gamble Whole Foods<br />

Planning Implementing Controlling<br />

Corporate planning<br />

Division planning<br />

Organizing<br />

Implementing<br />

Measuring results<br />

Diagnosing results<br />

Business planning<br />

|Fig. 2.1|<br />

The Strategic<br />

Planning,<br />

Implementation, and<br />

Control Processes<br />

Product planning<br />

Taking corrective<br />

action<br />

target markets and the firm’s value proposition, based on an analysis of the best market opportunities.<br />

The tactical marketing plan specifies the marketing tactics, including product features,<br />

promotion, merchandising, pricing, sales channels, and service. The complete planning, implementation,<br />

and control cycle of strategic planning is shown in Figure 2.1. Next, we consider<br />

planning at each of these four levels of the organization.<br />

Corporate and Division Strategic<br />

Planning<br />

Some corporations give their business units freedom to set their own sales and profit goals<br />

and strategies. Others set goals for their business units but let them develop their own strategies.<br />

Still others set the goals and participate in developing individual business unit strategies.<br />

All corporate headquarters undertake four planning activities:<br />

1. Defining the corporate mission<br />

2. Establishing strategic business units<br />

3. Assigning resources to each strategic business unit<br />

4. Assessing growth opportunities<br />

We’ll briefly look at each process.

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