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Strategic planning

The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities

Mission statement

A statement of the organization's purpose -- what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment

Business portfolio

The collection of businesses and products that make up the company

Portfolio analysis

The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company

Growth-share matrix

A portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company's SBUs in terms of market growth rate and relative market share

Strategic business unit (SBU)

The key business that makes up the company

Product/market expansion grid

A portfolio-planning tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development, or diversification

Market penetration

Company growth by increasing sales of current products to current market segments without changing the product

Market development

Company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products

Product development

Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments

Diversification

Company growth through starting up a acquiring businesses outside the company's current products and markets

Value chain

The series of internal departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support a firm's products

Value delivery network

The network made up of the company, its suppliers, its distributors, and its customers who partner with each other to improve the performance of the entire system

Marketing strategy

The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable customer relationships

Market segmentation

Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors, and who might require separate products of marketing programs

Market segment

A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts

Market targeting

The process of evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter

Positioning

Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers

Differentiation

Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value

Marketing mix

The set of tactical marketing tools -- product, price, place, and promotion -- that the firm blends to produce the respons it wants in the target market

SWOT analysis

An overall evaluation of the company's strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (O)

Marketing implementation

Turning marketing strategies and plans into marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing objectives

Marketing control

Measuring and evaluating the results of marketing strategies and plans and taking corrective action to ensure that the objectives are achieved

Marketing return on investment (marketing ROI)

The net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment