Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 4:41 AM
Site: Bcom International Supply Chain Management
Course: Bcom International Supply Chain Management (IMM)
Glossary: SCS Glossary
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Strategic Marketing Plan

Marketing strategy is a long-term, forward-looking approach and an overall game plan of any organization or any business with the fundamental goal of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by understanding the needs and want of customers.

Strategy

Strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. 

Strategy Direction Matrix

Planning tool that provides a framework to help executives, senior managers, and marketers devise strategies for future growth and making decisions.

Strategy Independence

Independent Strategy adds value to its clients by seeking out investment themes and opportunities, often challenging conventional wisdom.

Structural Unemployment

Structural unemployment refers to a mismatch between available jobs and job-seekers qualifications (or lack of them).

Subsidies

Subsidies are cash payments to producers.

Substitutes

Substitutes are products that can be used instead of an existing product, example brown bread and white bread.

Summarising

Summarising – reducing the extent of a written piece to capture the main ideas.

Sunk Costs

Sunk costs– costs already incurred, therefore irrelevant to the decision at hand.

Supply

Supply refers to all goods the company is able and willing to produce.