30564 - Strategic Marketing Planning

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Maurizio Canavari
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: AGR/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Marketing and Economics of the agro-industrial system (cod. 0868)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course the student is able to master different methods to setting up a strategic marketing plan. She/he is aware of strategic analysis tools to organize information about competitors, markets and the market environment and can follow the process to create and implement marketing management strategies on the base of that information.

Course contents

Marketing management and business strategies (evaluation of current and future position, definition of the basic competitive strategy). Marketing planning: from strategy to tactics. Identifying maketing segments and targeting. Development and launch of new products. Building a marketing plan: strategic marketing mix.

Readings/Bibliography

Roger A. Kerin, Steven W. Hartley, Eric N. Berkowitz, William Rudelius (2007), Marketing - McGraw-Hill, Milano, ISBN 9788838663901 (capitoli 2-3, App. A, 10-11)
Optional textbook:
Antonio Ferrandina (2010), Il marketing plan. Guida operativa, 5 ed., FAG, ISBN 978888233873

Teaching methods

The course is based on a traditional lecturing style with the occasional use of the IT laboratory for groupwork.
Seminars about specific topics held by practitioners/experts/scholars will integrate the coursework materials.

Assessment methods

Final oral exam.

Teaching tools

Seminars, class groupwork.

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Canavari