Exam 2 Chap 9 Flashcards

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Competitive intelligence

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An intelligent system that helps manager asses their competition and vendors in order to become more efficient and effective competitors

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Source of competitive intelligence

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  • internet, industry expert, gov, industry trade show, salespeople
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Where does competitive intelligence derive from?

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Military intelligence, competitive intelligence is important tool for helping a firm competitor advantages

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Marketing research

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The process of planning, collecting, analyzing data relevant to a marketing decision

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What does market research do?

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  • link customers to markets through info
  • it is the main data source for management info
  • provide data on the effectives of marketing mix
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What are the 3 roles of marketing research

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  • descriptive
  • diagnostic
  • predictive
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Descriptive

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  • gathering and presenting factual statement

- what is the historic sales trend in the industry

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Diagnostic

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  • explain data

- what was the impact on sales after change in packaging

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Predictive

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  • address “what if”
  • what if question, how can descriptive and diagnostic research be used to predict the result of a planned marketing decision
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What do market use marketing research?

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  • improve the quality of decision making
  • helps managers trace problems
  • helps manager understand detailed and complicated relationship
  • helps manager serve customer accurately and efficiently
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Secondary data

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  • data previously collected for any purpose other than the one at hand
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Origins of internal source of secondary data

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  • the company website
  • annual reports
  • blogs
  • social media post / YT
  • product testing result
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Origin of external source of secondary data

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  • government agencies
  • trade and industry association
  • business periodicals
  • news media
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Secondary data +

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  • save time and money
  • help formulating problem statement
  • suggest research methods and data solve problems
  • basis for data comparaison
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Secondary data -

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  • may not give adequate detailed information

- quality and accuracy of data may pose a problem

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Primary data

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Information that is collected for the first time

- used to solve the particular problem at hand

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Survey research

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The most popular technique for gathering primary data

- goal get: facts, opinion, attitudes

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Types of survey research interviews

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  • in home personal interviews

- mall intercept interviews

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In home personal interviews

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In home personal interviews often provide high quality info.

- tend to be expensive because fo interviewers travel time

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Mall intercept interviews

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A survey research method that involves interviewing people in common areas of shopping mall

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Executive interview (survey research)

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Type of survey that usually involves interviewing business people at their office

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Focus groups (survey research)

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7 to 10 people who participate in a group discussion

- discussion lead by moderator

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Telephone interview

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Cost less than personal interview, but cost rapidly increase due to respondent refusal to participate

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What cost less than personal interviews

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Telephone interviews

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Why does cost increase in telephone interviews

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Cuz people dont want to participate

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Central-location téléphone (CLT) facility

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Specially designed phone rooms used to conduct phone survey

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Mail survey alternative

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Mail panels

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Benefits of mail survey

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  • low cost
  • elimination of interviews and field supervisors
  • centralized control
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Computer assisted personal interviews

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Interviewing method in which the interviewer reads question to the respondent off a computer screen.
- data enter into pc

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Computer assisted self-interviewing

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Interview method in which a mall interviewer intercept and directs willing respondents to nearby computer.
- responds read question from pc and direct answer on pc

31
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Questionnaire design

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  • open ended question
  • close ended question
  • scaled response question
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Questionnaire

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People are ask the same questions

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Open ended questions

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Interviews question that encourage an answer phrased in the respondent own words

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Closed ended question

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Interview question that ask the respondent to make a selection from limited list of response

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Scales response question

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A closed ended question designed to measure the intensity of a respondent answer

36
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Observation research

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Method relis on 4 types of observation

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What are the 4 types of observation research

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  • people watching people
  • people watching activity
  • machines watching people
  • machines watching activity
38
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Mystery shopper

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Researcher posing as customers who gather observational data about a store

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Behavioral targeting (BT)

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Form of observation marketing that combines a consumer’s online activity with psychographic and demographic profiles that is in the data base

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Virtual shopping

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Simulation of actual retail store environment on a computer

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Experiment

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A method of gathering primary data in which the researcher alter one or more variables while observing the effects of those alteration on another variable

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Ethnographic research

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The study of human behavior in its natural context, involves observation of behavior and physical setting

43
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Social media’s monitoring

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Tools to monitor online buzz