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Capturing Marketing Insights

Presented by: Prof Joydeep Biswas

Marketing Management - I
Learning Objectives

What is Marketing Environment?

Understanding the Micro Environment

Understanding the Macro Environment

Responding to the Environment


Marketing Environment
Includes the actors and forces outside marketing that
affect marketing management ability to build and
maintain successful relationship with target customers.
Marketing – Micro Environment
Consists of actors close to the company that affect its
ability to serve its customers:
• Company
• Suppliers
• Intermediaries
• Markets
• Competitors
• Publics
Marketing – Micro Environment
Marketing – Micro Environment
Company
• Top management
• Finance
• R&D
• Purchasing
• Operations
• Accounting
Marketing – Micro Environment
Suppliers
• Vendors
• Agencies
Marketing – Micro Environment
Competitors
• Direct Competitors
• Indirect Competitors – Substitutes

Intermediaries
• Resellers and distribution channel firms
• Agencies – research firms, advertising agencies,
media firms, consulting firms
• Financial intermediaries
Marketing – Micro Environment
Publics
• Financial Public
• Media
• Government
• Citizen-action
• Local
• General
• Internal
Marketing – Micro Environment
Customers
• Consumer markets
• Business markets
• Reseller markets
• Government markets
• International markets
Marketing – Macro Environment
Consists of the larger societal forces that affect the
microenvironment:
• Demographic
• Economic
• Natural
• Technological
• Political
• Social and Cultural
• Legal
Marketing – Macro Environment
Marketing – Macro Environment
Demographic
• Family
• Workforce
• Geographic
• International
• Ethnicity
• Gay & Lesbian
• Disabled
Marketing – Macro Environment
Economic
• Consumer spending
• Income distribution
Marketing – Macro Environment
Natural
• Raw material shortage
• Increased pollution
Marketing – Macro Environment
Technological
• New products, new opportunities
• Increased safety
• Privacy concerns
Marketing – Macro Environment
Political
• Business Regulations
• Advertising Regulations
• Content Regulation

Social
• Ethics
• Cause-related marketing
• Socially responsible behaviour
Marketing – Macro Environment
Cultural
• Core beliefs and values
• Secondary beliefs and values
Responding to the Environment
• Uncontrollable
• Proactive
• Reactive

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