Spécialisation The 4 A's of Marketing with Jagdish Sheth

Technology has always impacted marketing, especially in areas such as branding, packaging, distribution, and retailing. It has also impacted advertising and promotion. This course focuses on the impact of digital technology on all aspects of marketing including the 4P’s of marketing, word of mouth communication, and market research. It articulates the disruptive impact of social media and user-generated content.

The rise of emerging economies is bringing significant changes in the marketing practice. The traditional notion of extending products and services designed for advanced economies is no longer as successful in emerging markets. This is primarily because of affordability and accessibility. Moreover, most consumption in emerging markets is unbranded products and services, and unorganized competition. This course identifies five dimensions where emerging markets are different. The traditional approach of think global, act local (glocal) is replaced by a new perspective of think local, act global, especially in large emerging markets such as China and India.

This course focuses on how to make marketing both more efficient and effective. It advocates that the role of marketing is to create a win-win situation for both customers and marketers. Good marketing also requires taking a purpose-driven approach. Marketing also needs to broaden to more stakeholders aside from the customer. Therefore, it requires internal marketing, supplier marketing, community marketing, and investor marketing. This course also demonstrates that stakeholder marketing generates better financial performance for the marketer.