These four elements are mobilized through seven marketing activities (7As) that occur during the marketing strategy process. These activities enable the firm to anticipate market changes, adapt the strategy to stay ahead of competition, align the organization to the strategy and market, activate effective implementation, ensure accountability for results, attract resources, and manage marketing assets.
Marketing Excellence is a superior ability to
perform essential costumer-facing activities.
Four elements of
MARKORG:-capabilities,
-configuration,-human
capital, -cultures
Capabilities: disseminating and responding to marketing
intelligence, CRM, Bran asset, brand equity, marketing mix
Market share, marketing
spending on sales, relational
outcomes, R&D, SG&A
Configuration: Organizational structures, metrics, and incentives/control systems.
Measure marketing department power: % mkt
executives in TMT, garner rewards, ranking in
the TMT hierarchy, job titles-TMT
8 KAM structures: top management,
middle management, operating level,
cross-functional, unstructured, isolated,
country club and none.
Measured the use of market-based metric:
costumer satisfaction assessments,
salespeople performance-strength of
relationships with customers, customers poll
Emotional intelligence and the accuracy of
intuitive judgements have positive effects on
sales performance
Brand evaluations and brand equity,
both increases where there is an
alignment between employees and
brand personalities
Culture: guides thinking and actions throughout the firm
Building and Sustaining a
Market Oriented culture
7As that marketers deploy to generate firm perfomance results
Anticipating market place changes, adapting the firm to such
changes, aligning processes, structures and people; activating
efficient and effective individual and organizational behaviors;
creating accountability; attracting important financial, human, and
other resources and engaging in asset management that develops
and deploys marketing assets.