Strategic Market Management
Strategic marketing constitutes a pivotal management task for all organisations, whether commercial, government or not-for-profit.
It seeks to define its relationship with various environments, to analyse its industry or sector, to understand its customers and stakeholders and to create competitive advantage in the global marketplace. The process begins with articulating the organisation’s vision and mission in the light of its own capacity and context, through evaluation of alternative market strategies and adoption of specific plans, and culminates with organising for implementation and control.
Core coverage of the course will thus include the topics:
- Environmental Scanning and Market Intelligence
- Internal Analysis, Planning Process and Competitive Advantage
- Social Responsibility and Business Sustainability
- Customer Focus, Demand Management and Strategic Positioning
- Product Innovation, Brand Management, and Diversification
- Organisational Design, Implementation and Control
- Strategic Partnerships and Relationship Management
- New/Growth Markets and Mature/Declining Markets.
Throughout, this course will highlight socio-ethical issues in managerial decision-making that have long-term consequences for the organisation and the societies in which it operates. Participants will be facilitated to take a comprehensive perspective to devising marketing strategies in global contexts.
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.
See reading list in the current syllabus.
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Course reports
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Contact
Course coordinator: coursecoordinator@sbs.su.se
Head of course: Anders Parment
