Burning Ideas

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Process Writing

When we write, we do more than just put words together to make sentences. Good writers go through several steps to produce a piece of writing.

1. Choose a topic. Before you write, your teacher gives you a specific assignment or some ideas of what to write about. If not, choose a topic yourself.
2. Gather ideas. When you have a topic, think about what you will write about that topic.
3. Organize. Decide which of the ideas you want to use and where you want to use them. Choose which idea to talk about first, which to talk about next, and which to talk about last.
4. Write. Write your paragraph or essay from start to finish. Use your notes about your ideas and organization.
5. Review structure and content.  Check what you have written. Read you’re writing silently to yourself or loud, perhaps to a friend. Lock your places where you can add more information, and check to see if you have any unnecessary information. Ask a classmate to exchange text with you. Your classmate read your text, and you read his or hers. Getting a reader’s opinion is a good way to know if your writing is clear and effective. Learning to give opinions about other people’s writing helps you to improve your own. You may want to go on to step six now and revise the structure and content of your text before you proofread it.
6. Revise structure and content. Use your ideas from step five to rewrite your text, making improvements to the structure and content. You might need to explain something more clearly, or add more details. You may even need to change your organization so that your text is more logical. Together, steps five and six an be called editing.

• Proofread. Read text again. This time, check your spelling and grammar and think about the words you have chosen to use.
• Make final corrections. Check that you have corrected the errors you discovered in steps five and six and make any other changes you want to make. Now your text is finished!

Marketing strategy must reflect a coordinated effort of product performance and two-way communication. Within the communication process must be integration of marketing efforts and messages. Further, what is communicated about the product must be accurate, or the position won’t be supported. How can a company make certain that such integration occurs?
Several factors can encourage the appropriate level of integration within the marketing program. Clear strategic decisions, personnel stability, compensation systems that support the marketing strategy, and formal communication and organizational structures that encourage cross-functional interaction are among the more important.

Clear Strategic Decisions
In one study that examined mismatches between marketing and sales strategies, an issue that surfaced was a lack of decisiveness on the part of senior marketing executives. For example, two sales managers said that, although formal strategy indicated that a product would be on the market for the next few years, informal signals from marketing management indicated that the product might be withdrawn. As a result, the sales force was not putting any effort into those products. Sales and marketing strategies are neither immediate nor irreversible; if management waffles on strategic decisions, then marketing and sales investments could be wasted and relationships (both internal and external) damaged.

Personnel Stability
Relationships take time to build. As mentioned earlier, internal relationships go through the same stages as external relationships. Moving people rapidly through the organization can mean that relationships between areas of the marketing department are never built. One manager in one study reported three marketing executives in five years; one salesperson told us he had three different sales managers in one year! While each successive manager had to try to quickly build rapport with each subordinate and superior, the whole sales team suffered because new relationships had to be built between each new manager and all of the other functional areas. When rapid personnel turnover occurs, the relationship cannot get past the exploration stage.

Compensation
A key issue that creates ill will is the fact that different groups within marketing compete for the same budget. Fights over budgets can create bad feelings and damage relationships. Budgets, though, are not the only “money” issue that can damage or enhance relationships. Many companies are evaluating and testing compensation plans that encourage teamwork. For example, marketing managers may find that their pay contains incentives based on sales or contribution margins. When that is the case, they are incented to work more closely with the sales force. Morehead Supply is one company that pays quarterly bonuses to all marketing personnel if sales targets are achieved. Unlike profit sharing plans that the company also uses, these bonuses are specifically designed to encourage teamwork within the marketing–sales interface. Compensation can also help turn budgeting into teamwork. By using a joint compensation system, all of those competing for budget end up being paid based on the same performance. As a result, they are more determined than ever to see that the budget results in effective marketing. The issue, though, also affects how areas such as manufacturing, engineering, and other functional area bonuses are paid. When those areas are also compensated for customer satisfaction and teamwork, then those outcomes are more likely.

Organizational Structure
Compensation plans, though, should be supported by the appropriate organizational structure. The structure of the organization can enhance or inhibit the ability to create internal partnerships. In the next section, we discuss different types of organizational structures, as well as the different groups within marketing between whom partnerships are created.

Market-driven companies, or those with a strong market orientation, are superior in two important ways. First, market-driven companies do a better job of market sensing, or anticipating market requirements ahead of competition. Market sensing is the gathering of information from the market. Market research, is one form of market sensing, but market sensing can be achieved through listening to the sales force, observing competition at trade shows, and developing stronger ties with innovative customers and suppliers.

Similarly, the second important difference is that market-driven companies are able to develop stronger relationships with their customers and their channels of distribution. Stronger relationships include more direct lines of communication; instead of all communication going between a purchasing agent and a salesperson, interaction among engineers in all three firms (customer, manufacturer, and supplier) can occur. Stronger relationships can result in greater attention to the customer throughout the firm.
Research indicates several outcomes of a market orientation. Increased profit is one outcome, although increased market share does not necessarily follow a market orientation. That higher profit is due to the better pricing and product development that occur because of market orientation. In fact, in studies conducted in Japan, India, Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong, market orientation was found to influence performance.

A market orientation influences performance more in economies or industries that are rapidly changing. There is some evidence from transitional economies, such as Ghana or China, that firms with market orientations may last longer and respond better to dynamic economies. In stable markets, market orientation seems to be less important, but there are few markets that stay stable. As competition grows more fierce, market orientation becomes essential.
Companies that want to adopt a market orientation must have adequate spanning processes, processes that link internal processes with the customer. New product development is one such spanning process, as it links market requirements with internal processes such as manufacturing. All companies have new product development processes; the difference is how the process incorporates the voice of the customer. For internal processes to contribute to the value delivered by the value chain, there must be adequate spanning processes.

If you know that your backpacking trip will take you through snowy mountain roads and swampy hiking trails, you would be wise to put on your snow tires and double up on insect repellant. Similarly, if you know the nature of competitive challenges in your market, you should be sure your firm is adequately prepared to meet them. Every firm has both strengths and weaknesses, but it is how they match up against the competitive structure of the market that determines success.
Three broad types of action plans are implicated by competitive analysis. A firm will want to choose its competitive battlegrounds judiciously. If it is the low-cost producer, it might enjoy profitable business from a large, powerful buyer. A firm that is disadvantaged on the cost side should probably not pursue business from the powerful buyer, but compete in another customer sector where quick response and specialized technical service are critical. Solar Kids, a Cincinnati-based computer training company, faced up to the waning profit opportunities at elementary and high schools: lots of rivals, impoverished and slow-paying customers. It changed its name to Solar Comp and moved into corporate training, where competition pivots on expertise with the latest applications software and personal productivity tools.
Innovative organizations will sometimes pursue a strategy designed to change the competitive structure of the industry. Advertising and a sophisticated means of programmed merchandising for resellers may transform a market characterized by small regional manufacturers into one dominated by a few national marketers. In markets where this has occurred, the new competitive structure creates barriers to entry through new distribution requirements and product differentiation by branding.
The third strategic approach is to anticipate and exploit change in the competitive structure of the industry. Our challenge is to look carefully at each competitive force, understand its root causes, and forecast its impact on the profitability of an industry. Then, with insight and mobility superior to our competition, we try to secure a position to capitalize on the evolution of the field. In the opening vignette to this chapter, we profiled the moves to stake out a commercial presence in the developing digital economy. It is a reasonable bet that its growing experience and reputation will earn it superior profits and up the stakes for potential rivals in these evolving markets.

Profits are the economic rewards to a business for providing value to customers better than the rest and running an efficient operation. If we briefly examine a few sources of profit, we can get a good preview to the upcoming discussion of the anatomy of competition. Competition is more than industrial rivals cutting prices in an effort to gain market share. It has a structure that can be described and analyzed.

Five Forces

The preceding scenarios suggest that firms have improved profit capabilities to the extent that they can withstand price pressures in the business environment. If we pause to reconsider each scenario, we see that price pressures come from five distinct sectors.

Rivalry in the Industry Not all businesses face the same amount of price pressure from their competitors in the same business. In Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, hotels enjoyed great pricing latitude because demand outpaced the supply of local rooms. Like the lodging business, other industries are partitioned by natural boundaries or customer purchasing constraints.
If industry rivals offer relatively undifferentiated products or if demand is significantly less than overall capacity, firms will tend to find intense rivalry. Price competition frequently intensifies in declining markets because firms try to grab market share to cover fixed expenses that can’t be shrunk as rapidly as the market.

Powerful Suppliers A manufacturer that relies heavily on a unique input for its product becomes vulnerable to price hikes or other means of “holdup” from the supplier. Of course, the unique input may provide a means of differentiation for the manufacturer. The “Intel inside” sticker on a desktop computer provides many buyers assurance of a top-quality Pentium processor, no matter what the brand name on the PC. The buying firm must carefully weigh the benefits from depending on a powerful source of supply. A key question may be what the future supply situation looks like. Perhaps there will be alternative suppliers when patent protection expires or when another source—maybe even one internal to the firm— has been brought up to speed.

Threat of Substitutes Industries are typically defined by their channel position and their output. Are they manufacturers or distributors? Do they sell chemicals or rolled wire? Notice that user considerations get no mention. But clearly, if a buyer regards the products from two different industries as substitutes, the makers of those products must be considered competitors.

Threat of Potential Entrants Rapidly growing or profitable markets tend to attract new sellers. And newcomers can
change the competitive landscape in several ways. First, new participants in the market increase the productive capacity serving the market; therefore the existing demand from customers has to cover more fixed costs. Second, a new rival will fight to increase market share, perhaps displacing incumbents in the assortments of resellers or underbidding the established firms. Third, new rivals can bring new or substantial resources to the fray.

A business strategy also has to develop the detailed aims and action plans for the functional areas. A host of questions must be addressed in this portion of a strategy. Will special emphasis be given logistics for customer service or will the firm decentralize manufacturing to provide short supply linkages to key customers? Will the firm need a strong advertising campaign or will it need to support distributor activities that play key roles in product differentiation? How important is supply management, relative to other facets of the value creation process? How can the sales, service, and operations people at the branches be encouraged to work as a team?
In many markets, careful analytical attention and planning are given to the product line—its scope, composition by functional feature and durability, horizontal and vertical connectivity, price, and so on. A computer company must consider the relationship of each model to the others it markets. What is the positioning strategy for each model and the array of accessories and peripherals? Engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and logistics must collaborate in the formulation of supporting goals and activities.
The growing interconnectivity in today’s information environment has posed new challenges for computer makers. For the small and midsized firms that want network services, manufacturers are relying more heavily on their value-added resellers (VARs). But at least two distinct action plans are evident. The approach used by Digital and Compaq favors Internet and/or intranet technology to provide technical and strategic support to a broad base of VARs. The other approach, exemplified in moves by IBM and Apple, provides increased service and incentives for an elite group of VARs.
Of course, the remainder of the marketing mix must also be tightly formulated. Advertising and distribution strategies must be worked out to support the intended positioning and product line strategies. The roles of the sales force with respect to each product and customer group need to fit with the advertising and telephone marketing strategies. Also, pricing strategies need to be in harmony with the advertising, selling, distribution, and manufacturing strategies.