Marketing Management

Syllabus

Spring, 2012

Instructor: Jaw, Chyi

Office Tel: #5231

 

Text: Basic Marketing: A Marketing Strategy Planning Approach, by PerreaultCannonMcCarthy  18e, McGraw-Hill, 華泰代理。

    Please respect the intelligent property of the textbook, don’t copy the textbook illegally.

 

Course Objective:

1. Build market concept based on global and information economics;

2. Analyze marketing environment and market characteristics;

3. Develop and integrate marketing mix strategies;

4. Manage marketing actions and link other functions in a firm;

5. Focus on some special marketing issues;

6. Reinforce marketing practical skill by case study;

7. Review important marketing literature and communicate the academic knowledge;

8. Explore interesting idea and learn to develop a research framework in this discipline.

 

Notes:

1.      Please always check the announcements for this course on the instructor’s blog.

2.      About 9 students make up a team (totally 8 teams) to work for all assignments in this course. The class representative has to send the team list including team number and membership names to jaw.report@gmail.com after the first class.

3.      We will spend 20 minutes to review the lesson of last week by Interactive Q&A.

4.      The Marketing Practice is the most important assignment and performance for this course. Every team has to contact a small-and-medium firm to understand their marketing strategies and problems and complete all of the marketing practice assignments.

5.      There are twice Exams in this semester, both of middle-term exam and term exam.

6.      In order to save resources and speed up the reviewing process, necessary work is asked to email jaw.report@gmail.com. Some excellent work may be posted on the instructor’s blog as a reference for other students.

7.      Those delayed and crib report would be rejected.

 


Grading Policy:

Practical Case                  50%

Class Participation          20% (Including Interactive Q&A)

Exam                               30%

 

Course Agenda

 

2/22         Introduction

 

2/29         Marketing Concept & Strategy Planning: CH. 1 & 2 (CH. 19 & 20)

                Marketing Practice (1): Case Introduction

 

3/7           Changing Marketing Environment & STP: CH. 3 & 4

                Movie: Outsourced

 

3/14        Demographic Environment: CH. 5

                 Marketing Practice (2): The Changing Environment and the STP Strategies for the Case

 

3/21         Buying Behaviors: CH. 6 & 7

                 Marketing Practice (3): The Customer Characteristics and Buying Behaviors of the Case

 

3/28         Marketing Research: CH. 8

                 Marketing Practice (4): (a) Find the Important Marketing Problems for the Case; (b) Design and Implement a Marketing Research for the Case.

 

4/4           Spring Break

 

4/11         Products & Services: CH. 9

                 Marketing Practice (5): Design a Webpage for the Case

 

4/18         Mid-term Exam

 

4/25         NPD & Product Management: CH. 10

                 Marketing Practice (6): Develop a New Product or a New Service for the Case.

 

5/2           Channel Strategies (I): CH. 11, 12 & 13

Video Case

 

5/9           Guest Speech: Dr. Chin, Vice President of Kopin Taiwan Corporation

 

5/16         Channel Strategies (II): CH. 11, 12 & 13

                 Marketing Practice (7): Redesign to Improve the Physical Surroundings for the Case Store

 

5/23         Promotion (I): Introduction & Personal Selling: CH. 14 & 15

International Award Ad CF

 

5/30         Promotion (II): Ad, SP, & PR: CH. 16

                 Marketing Practice (8): (a) Develop a Complete Promotion Proposal for the Case (Including All Promotion Tools); (b) Produce a CF for the Case.

 

6/6           Pricing Strategies: CH. 17 & 18

                 Marketing Practice (9): Estimate the Total Marketing Cost and Develop a Pricing Strategy for the Case

Video Case

 

6/13         Final Term Presentation for Marketing Practice

 

6/20         Term Exam