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MN52115: Marketing

[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]

Academic Year: 2023/24
Owning Department/School: School of Management
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWRI 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Report Individual (CWRI 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On completion of this module, students will be able to:
  • Critically evaluate the principles and precepts of strategy and marketing strategy.
  • Critically evaluate, and apply strategy and marketing strategy planning concepts and theories.
  • Synthesise market, competitor, and customer research to develop a marketing strategy that is implementable.
  • Identify and develop implementation, control, and evaluation methods for the marketing strategy.



Synopsis: Learn to develop products and services that provide value to your customers. You will explore the principles, tools, models and concepts to allow you to: - identify a market - understand your customers - develop success factors that align with organisational strategy You will learn to create a marketing strategy, identify customer segments and develop a clear value proposition. You will also develop a marketing plan to deliver elements of your strategy and controls to monitor the plan.

Content:
  • Marketing strategy and the strategic planning process.
  • Core and competitive, business level and corporate level strategies.
  • Role of mission, vision, corporate objectives.
  • The marketing and strategy environment, larger (macro) and task environment, change and drivers in the performance (meso) environments.
  • Internal analysis (micro) environment.
  • Marketing and organisational resources, capabilities, and competencies.
  • Portfolio analysis.
  • Customer analysis.
  • Competitive benchmarking.
  • Models of buyer behaviour and factors influencing behaviour.
  • Marketing planning, implementation of tactics, control and evaluation.


Course availability:

MN52115 is Compulsory on the following courses:

School of Management

MN52115 is Optional on the following courses:

School of Management

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
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