Postgraduate Course: Strategic Marketing (EMBA) (CMSE11223)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Adopting a strategic focus, the course will critically review current theory and practice and discuss how marketing strategies are evolving in the light of changes arising from increasingly sophisticated and demanding consumers, new technology and globalisation. |
| Course description |
The introductory course assumes no prior knowledge of marketing. It adopts a strategic focus and considers the nature and scope of marketing in society, the need for a customer orientation and role of segmentation, targeting and positioning, the management of the marketing mix (comprising products, prices, promotion, distribution, physical evidence, process and people). This strategic focus is developed through extended case studies that are used as the basis of class discussion to critically examine marketing concepts and applications across a number of different sectors and organisations
Syllabus
Introduction to Marketing
Understanding Customer Behaviour
Marketing Environment and Strategy
Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
Branding Products and Services
Innovation and NPD
Pricing and Distribution
Marketing Communications
Student Learning Experience
This course offer a mixture of lectures, case studies, vignettes, video presentations, in class discussion and webinars. Key marketing concepts are presented in lectures, examples illustrate how these have been applied in practice, and these ideas are further critiqued (as far as time allows) through class discussion drawing in directed reading, analysis and own managerial experience. Recommended readings support independent learning and allow for further critique and exploration of relevant theories and concepts. Workshops are organised around the Strategic Marketing Challenge and this applied group project ensures complementary learning through practical research and experience.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2020/21, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
48 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Group Assignment 50%
Individual Assignment 50%
Group Assignment (and Presentation): Students will be part of a group linked-up with a local organisation to work on a brief for the Strategic Marketing Challenge. The group will submit a group report (and make a short presentation).
Individual Assignment: Students will be required to submit an individual assignment.
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| Feedback |
Informal feedback will be provided in class through discussion of concepts and ideas, analysis and discussion of several cases.
A short formative assessment will focus on an outline consultancy proposal.
Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which will be made clear to students at the start of the academic year
Students will be provided with electronic written feedback for all coursework.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and critically discuss the marketing activities that impinge on our daily lives as business managers and citizens.
- Critically evaluate key marketing theory, concepts, research and current practice.
- Describe strategic frameworks related to the selection of marketing objectives, target markets and marketing mixes
- 4. Appreciate how marketing practice is influenced by contemporary challenges in the operating environment
- Apply theoretical frameworks to real-world marketing innovation challenges: identifying their key features and implications, setting appropriate marketing objectives and evaluating alternative marketing strategies.
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Reading List
Core Textbook
Baines, P, Fill, C., Rosengren, S. and Antonetti, P (2017) Fundamentals of Marketing, OUP, Oxford
Supplementary Reading
Digital/eMarketing: Stokes, R. (2013) eMarketing: the essential guide to marketing in a digital world. 5th Edition.
Branding: Champniss, G. and Rodes Vila, F. (2011) Brand valued: how socially valued brands hold the key to a sustainable future and business success, John Wiley and Sons.
Critical Marketing: Ellis, N. et. al. (2012) Marketing: A critical textbook, Sage.
Articles from journals in the library collection will be recommended as the course progresses. All journals are available electronically |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive and Subject Specific Skills:
Critically evaluate key marketing concepts, theory and practice.
Communicate clearly to others an analysis of marketing situations or evaluation of theory.
Apply theoretical frameworks to real-world marketing situations.
Reflect on the relevance of marketing as a manager, business leader and as a consumer
Transferable Skills:
Develop confidence and skills in business engagement and team-based consulting.
Demonstrate skills of critical and reflective thinking.
Identify, locate and evaluate source material (academic and practitioner) to support arguments.
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| Keywords | Marketing Strategy Innovation |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr David Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3822
Email: D.W.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Angela Muir
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Angela.Muir@ed.ac.uk |
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