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Unit name: ENTERPRISE, INNOVATION & MARKET number: 200911
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Reference.......................................................................................................................21
Appendices....................................................................................................................25
Executive Summary
In modern society, innovation has been considered as a main role that makes company
survives in competitive market. With innovation, company not only can keep up with new
trends but also expand its business with differentiated products. According to Green (2019),
company involved in innovation contributes to the overall success of business in the future.
In fact, Thegioididong, which is well-known as the leading in mobile phone retail chain in
Vietnamese market, has applied two innovations in the company process, which helps the
corporation to reach customers much more effectively.
Both of two innovations bring several benefits to the existing markets. Thegioididong had
appied successfully the omni-channel marketing to their business. Based on the statistics of
Google Analytics, the website of company had attracted 30-35 million visits per month from
2017 up to now(Tra, 2019). This leads to the increase in sales of Thegioididong. Besides,
artificial intelligence creates an opportunity for improving operations. Due to the advance in
technology, “supperapp”, which recognizes as the newest application, will enable
consumers to easily connect with more functions than using the retail chain’s website(Dang,
2020). This technologies improve customer experiences through atrial storage of shopping
information, which significantly reduces the time spent shopping.
SWOT
-Website is designed
to bring more
convenience to
customers.
-The mobile phone retail market is stated at being the saturated point
=> The cake is not delicious anymore => switch into other fields, for
example, TheGioiDiDong and FPT Shop started to e-watch (sell
Apple’s watch)
To lead in any market, business itself must deeply understand the behavioural process of
buying goods and services from the end-customer, how interactive between the quantity
demanded and price purchased for each time the end-customer looks for any product. That
is all about the importance of studying microeconomics and it would be applied to the case
of Thegioididong.
Market Structure
Thegioididong, Vien Thong A, and FPT Shop are the three largest retailers in Vietnam’s
mobile retail market. Thegioididong is one of the fastest-growing firms, has expanded its
share of the market from 21% in 2013 to 30% in 2015 (“Mobile World Investment,” 2016).
Eventually, the retailer currently holds the top position and controls up to 40% of the market
innovative approach to business. For instance, the company grew its revenue by 60%
to the market leader, Thegioididong. FPT Shop serves as the second-largest retailer,
controlling approximately 14.9% of the market. Like its rival Thegioididong, FPT shop
increased its revenue from VND 5,200 billion to VND 7,800 billion between the years 2014
and 2015, which further grew to 13,100 billion in 2017 (“FPT Retail,” 2018). Lastly, Vien
Thong A controls nearly 5.3% of the market. The company closed the year 2018 with
revenues amounting to VND 4,600 billion (“Nguyen Kim,” 2018). With higher revenue and a
larger number of retail outlets spread across various Vietnamese provinces and cities,
Competition
Competition in Vietnamese e-phone retail market is growing stiffer with the rapid expansion
of the few large retailers. Thegioididong, Vien Thong A, and FPT Shop strive to outdo each
other by focusing on increasing the market share. Thegioididong mainly invests in improving
offers competitive and discounted prices; for example, the company sells the Realme 5i and
iPhone 11 Pro at 3’690,000 VDN and 31,890,000 VDN instead of 4,200,000 VDN and
33,000,000 VDN, respectively (“Thegioididong,” 2020). On the other hand, FPT Shop relies
on a myriad of factors to attract and retain customers. Lastly, Vien Thong A boosts its
revenue through online sales practices. All of them share most of their marketing strategies;
Barriers to Entry
Vietnamese e-phone market is stated to be at saturated point, as being one of the most
factors destroying new players to the Vietnamese market. The market is becoming
oligopolistic, whereby a few established firms, such as Thegioididong, FPT Shop, and Vien
Thong A, control a substantial share of the market. This market characteristic hinders new
businesses from accessing the market (Le, 2016). Surviving the competition presented by
established firms requires new entrants to put in place numerous adaptations, which
significantly increased the capital costs and the operational costs. Service innovation serves
as a vital competition tool in the market; however, the cost of innovation increases the cost
of entry and operation for new entrants. Unlike their established counterparts, new
2019).
Based on Vietnam’s salary report in 2019, demand for electronic products and services is
projected to increase significantly in the next five years. The market features indicate a
income levels makes the market still less sensitive to price increments, implying that higher
Problem Identification
With the evaluation of current innovations, current marketing analysis and current
microeconomics analysis above, key points are clearly identified. First, the domestic mobile
market has shown signs of saturation and in Vietnam where most people already own a
phone, the negative growth has been predicted by many experts. This has led to certain
concerns for retail chains and phone makers when the market is no longer potential.
Second, in mobile phone retail market, Thegioididong, Fpt and Vien Thong A still the giants
in influencing this industry and in the future, this rank would be predicted to continue by
focusing on improving customer loyalty. Third, among these three brands, many marketing
strategies and communications are well conducted, enhancing the brand identification in
mindset of Vietnamese people.
However, with this industry, we defined the problem is that mobile retail market did not work
the same with other industries, such as health care and FMCG because customers’
demands on mobile phone is not on a daily basis and it usually takes more time to consume
and rebuy a mobile phone, except that some customers want to buy more than one phone
and hence, it reduces the profit of this industry in the long-term. Additionally, with very high
competition from Fpt and Vienthong A, it seems to have big indifference between these
firms in marketing, sales and especially customer services so either Thegioididong or Fpt
will not create much differences to customers’ minds. Following this analysis, our team
came to find that Thegioididong is decreasing in success in mobile retail market as there
has been a saturation in this industry.
Doanhnhan.vn (2018) stated that the explosion of e-commerce has also put great pressure
on mobile phone retailers. Lazada, Tiki, and Shopee all have separate deals with mobile
phone companies to offer cheaper specials. As a result, mobile phone retail giants are
forced to change or expand business to survive. At the end of 2017, FPT Retail acquired
Long Chau drugstore chain and is restructuring this system to enter the pharmaceutical
retail market.
Similarly, Thegioididong has officially acquired Phuc An Khang pharmaceutical chain to
encroach into pharmaceutical industry.
It could be seen that it is not easy for Thegioididong to make decision into this new market,
but with the existing resources in operation strategy, marketing and sales omnichannel,
Thegioididong could save a lot of money in developing process. For example,
Thegioididong, could use these advantages to make brand identification in customer
insights at first. Additionally, logistics and inventory management should be considered, and
they would have to find an effective way to maintain these products in-house and out-of-
house.
Marketing mix
As mentioned above, TheGioiDiDong can overcome difficulties and create new potentials
based on products that few distributors pay much attention to, namely e-earphones.
Therefore, a new marketing strategy must be devised, resulting from market research, in
order to create an image of a new and more innovative TheGioiDiDong in the eyes of
customers.
Product
The main "product" provided by TheGioiDiDong are mobile-phone retail services.
TheGioiDiDong has the motto of bringing convenience and “5-star” service attitude to
achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction no matter how many more markets that
the firm decided to invest in. Bluetooth headsets, which have already existed for years,
didn't really stand out in the market until Apple launched the first Airpod model in 2016.
Since then, a wide range of phone companies and electronic components have realized the
potential of this item and began to exploit them. TheGioiDiDong 's website, which was used
to specialize in smartphone and laptops, will be diversified with a new category of headsets.
In the website for the earphones, products will be categorized based on brand, function and
price. Not only for Airpods, customers will have various choices and information from the
company’s counterparts before confirming a purchase decision. For example, Samsung,
Sony, Xiaomi, Jabra, or Apple for Bluetooth headsets or Logitech, Razer or SteelSeries for
gaming headsets. These are the potential brands which are expected to cooperate with
TheGioiDiDong to create an evolution.
The demand for headphones will vary depending on different kinds of customer. Not only
Bluetooth headsets but also recent gaming headsets have significantly emerged. Through
times, now that industries like vlogger or streamer thrive, specialized products will be very
popular among those. It would be very convenience if they could buy a reputable product
from a giant like TheGioiDiDong. TheGioiDiDong should label on its products and upgrade
the information frequently. This positioning not only hits the mind of TheGioiDiDong 's target
customer base with the habit of updating the trend regularly, but also becomes the key
competitive advantage of the earphone market. Finally, in process of branding, the company
should emphasize the phrase "The leading retail system of mobile phones, smart headsets
and laptops nationwide" to enhance customer awareness.
Price
Different from smartphone market, headphone market seems more optimistic as prices are
pretty much reduced. Since US-China trade tensions are show no signs of abating and
based on the goal to diversify the production environment in many different countries, Apple
is going to establish factories at Vietnam at the end of 2020. Without being subjected to
taxes and manufacturing costs, the products sold from Apple will be less expensive.
TheGioiDiDong need to pay attention to the movement of competitors such as GearVn,
NguyenKim.TGDD. Researches show that, the average price of an average Bluetooth
earphone has inched up to $40 so far, according to the latest data released by Futuresource
Consulting. Customers willing to pay for an average headset is $42.70, up 14% from 2018
and still holding double-digit growth for years. (tinhte.vn)
Place
TheGioiDiDong 's distribution strategy is known to be very well implemented. As a matter of
fact, thegioididong.com has been present in all provinces and cities across the country with
more than 1771 stores evenly distributed throughout important locations in the region.
Therefore, when innovating to headphones market, TGDD should pay attention to make the
distribution in the most effective way. For offline business, in addition to keep the remaining
stores in the stable condition, TheGioiDiDong should keep the inherent business model,
only adding separate display booths for headphones. In addition, TheGioiDiDong can open
a monumental showcase located in the city center (refer to Samsung Showcase model at
Bitexco), which is for the exhibition of the newest, limited edition headphones and auxiliary
models of the publisher. Customers can directly interact with them under the enthusiastic
guidance of staffs. Also, TheGioiDiDong can collaborate with game development companies
at Vietnam like Garena to promote and organize events there to attract customer line of
gamers or streamers. Besides, social networking sites are also considered as abundant
online sales channels, such as Facebook or Instagram. As a matter of fact, the number of
social network users reached 3.3 billion in 2018, accounting for 43% of the world's
population, of which Vietnam ranked seventh the proportion of Facebook users
(quantriphanphoi.com)
Promotion
Modern wireless earphones market is still new, but it has created a wave of trend for young
customers with modern lifestyles. Therefore, the use of images of KOLs or influencers will
be an opportunity for Thegioididong to innovate in the media field and help the firm to make
strong impression in customers’ eyes like Sơn Tùng MT-P with Oppo. Nowadays, between
many forms of marketing, the role of representative / influencer still holds an especially
important position to help the brand become unique and closer to the target audience. Thus,
2020 will be the year that influencer marketing is a promising and effective choice for brands
(brandsvietnam.com). In fact, other recent retail systems, such as Tiki, Lazada ... have
already achieved remarkable result from media influencer, stated a report by Tiki.vn, by
using famous celebrities as representative such as Truong Giang, Tran Thanh or Son Tung
MTP. Thegioididong can launch a PR campaign by sponsoring those events, thereby
improving contact opportunities, directly to consumers and even the media. For technology
enthusiasts, Techfest Vietnam is a good example. It is also known as The National
Innovation Day is the largest annual event for the technology startup community in Vietnam.
Charity and promotion activities should also be focused. TGDD can host charitable activity
for the company’s members or collaborate with scholarships fund organization like “Light
your hope”, thereby giving away free headsets to poor students with good results for study
purpose. These will stimulate customers to purchase more and create a beautiful image of
TheGioiDiDong in the in the customer’s subconscious.
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Appendices
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What needs doing? As per the List the various jobs required to be List the names of team members
“Marking criteria & completed within the task & How long will who collaborated in completing the
standards”. it take to complete? various jobs within the task.
Task 1 - Evaluation of current Research about the chosen brand Trầần Trúc Anh
innovation. (Thegioidiong). Nguyễễn Quốốc Dũng
Then identify 2 innovations from this Đốễ Hoài Thương
brand via the Internet and directly calling
to the hotline of the brand to get more
information
Explore how the innovations came into
being, then compare and contrast them to
each other, describe features of the
innovations
Highlight the advantages of the
innovations
Task 2 - Current marketing Research more on the brand, the industry, Đốễ Hoài Thương
analysis. the market, and the competition Nguyễễn Trầần Quỳnh Trầm
Find out what kind of marketing activities Trần Phương Thảo Nguyên
have been carried out by Thegioididong in
the way they sell smartphones. Then
compare them to competitors such as FPT
Shop and VienthongA
Applying theory from chapter 3-5 to
construct and evaluate SWOT and
Marketing Mix analyses
Task 3 - Current economic Gather annual reports & documents Nguyễễn Quốốc Dũng
analysis. related to Thegioididong, its 2 rivals and Đốễ Hoài Thương
the market. Nguyễễn Trầần Quỳnh Trầm
From those, analyse and evaluate the
micro conditions of 3 firms and verify the
saturation of the market
Compare & contrast the 3 firms, regarding
their sales turnover, inventory, etc
Draw graphs, charts and tables to
Task 4 - Problem Review and summarize all the findings Nguyễễn Trầần Quỳnh Trầm
identification. from Task 1-3 Trần Phương Thảo Nguyên
Search for the market gap or any Trầần Trúc Anh
unsatisfied demand from market segments.
Then identify the problem of
Thegioididong in the industry of retail
service
Finalize the problem statement
Task 5 - The new innovation Conduct a final group meeting to Nguyễễn Quốốc Dũng
& Target market profile. brainstorm ideas for the new innovation Trầần Trúc Anh
Review chapter 1,2 and 4 to obtain Đốễ Hoài Thương
necessary theories Trần Phương Thảo Nguyên
Apply the innovation process Nguyễễn Trầần Quỳnh Trầm
Task 6 - The new marketing From task 5, conduct a Marketing Mix Trần Phương Thảo Nguyên
mix strategy. analysis for this new innovation Nguyễễn Quốốc Dũng
Redo all the similar jobs from task 2, but Trầần Trúc Anh
applying on this new innovation Đốễ Hoài Thương
Task 7 - APA Referencing Spellcheck, grammar check and proofread Nguyễễn Quốốc Dũng
style. the paper Trầần Trúc Anh
Create a reference list Đốễ Hoài Thương
Trần Phương Thảo Nguyên
Nguyễễn Trầần Quỳnh Trầm
Timeliness of work
Overall Project
Quality of work
Responsibility
Task support
Involvement
Leadership
Interaction
List below the specific tasks you completed for the project – (continue on subsequent page/s if space is not
sufficient):
Tran Truc Anh:
Research more on the brand, the industry, the market, and the competition
Find out what kind of marketing activities have been carried out by Thegioididong in the way
they sell smartphones. Then compare them to competitors such as FPT Shop and
VienthongA
Applying theory from chapter 3-5 to construct and evaluate SWOT and Marketing Mix
analyses
From task 5, conduct a Marketing Mix analysis for this new innovation
Redo all the similar jobs from task 2, but applying on this new innovation
All members
Conduct a final group meeting to brainstorm ideas for the new innovation
Review chapter 1,2 and 4 to obtain necessary theories
Apply the innovation process
Spellcheck, grammar check and proofread the paper
Create a reference list