In: Operations Management
Here are three questions for us to
discuss:
1) How valid do you think the "marketing concept" is as a key to
business success? Do you buy Pride and Ferrel's argument?
2) Does the "marketing concept" have any application to an
individual's life? How can it be a key to personal success just as
to organizational success?
3) As you "Begin with the End in Mind" for your own life, in what
way could you utilize the "marketing concept" to guide your
imagined picture of the end/whole of your life and the choices you
will make along the way to get you there?
1.
It is completely valid that marketing concept is the main key to
the business success. To formulate the correct marketing concepts
different factors are required to be considered. To know the market
trend, different research and analysis are required to be
performed. To build a successful business, it is required to know
the customer first. Based on the customer’s needs, the
decision-making process is made which replicates the utilization of
many new channels for marketing. The new marketing channels obtain
the customer's feedback which helps in the product implementation
process.
Yes, Pride and Ferrel's argument can be bought it will additionally
help to redevelop the marketing concept and provide many
alternative methods to construct the strategies for innovating an
effective marketing concept.
2.
Yes, it can lead to personal success. For an example: A marketing manager has given the responsibility to sale the organizational products in the market, the manager planned accordingly and sold the product by utilizing through marketing channels. This increases the growth of the organizational products in the market and the manager appraised by the company because of the high sale value. Thus, it leads to personal success and the organization also sustains for a long-term growth.
3.
"Begin with the End in Mind"
resembles each day assigned task which is correctly formulated with
well marketing approach based on the scenario of the target. To
patch up with the imagination picture of the end of life with the
marketing concept is something challenging aspects as to mandate
the picture in mind requires freedom to utilize that marketing
concept in the market. The correct formulation of the imaginary
picture will lead to enormous success to be defined. To make that
imaginary concept worth it is required to target that concept with
efficiency and proven strategies are required to be formulated with
a correct decision-making process; otherwise, it will lead to
hiding behind the competitive advantage which will stop to explore
the imaginations. Therefore, it is required to construct the
correct blueprint of the imagination in the real market by
providing the correct essence of achievements.