Marketing Planning (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

V

Objective

The student knows the marketing planning theories, models and concepts. The student understands the importance of marketing analysis in strategic planning and management. The student knows different analysis and planning tools and is able to use them in strategic marketing planning.The student knows how marketing strategies and plans are developed and understands their relevance in practice.The student is able to use different tools in marketing planning.

Content

Industry analysis; market analysis, business environment analysis, competition and customers, marketing strategy. Execution of marketing plan.

Materials

Marketing Strategy & Competitive Positioning; Hooley., G. Piercy., N., Nicoulaud., B. Sixth Edition. 2017. Financial Times, Prentice Hall. Marketing Management, Kotler., P and Keller., K. 14th Edition, Prentice Hall. 2012. Tavoitteellinen markkinointi; markkinoinnin tutkimus ja suunnittelu; Raatikainen., L. 2010. Edita.

Teaching methods

The course structure will contain the following steps to support students learning process:
1. Expertise lectures and individual assignments
2. Groupwork
3. Presenting the groupwork to other students
4. Individual review of individual assignments and peer review of groupwork

Support will be available in the following way:
1. Introduction to the targets, theme and tasks
2. Guidance to groupwork
3. Peer review of groupwork both in oral and in written form
4. Feedback of the groupwork from the lecturer both in oral and in written form
6. Feedback from the individual assignments from the lecturer in written form

Exam schedules

No exam, the course grade is based on individual assignments and groupwork. Target company/topic for the group work can be chosen by students own contact group. Deadline for the individual assignments is 13.12.2020. Last 3 lectures are booked for groupwork presentations and peer reviews.

Completion alternatives

Recognition of Prior Learning and experience
More information from the lecturer and JAMK Study Guide

Student workload

Expertise lectures 5*1,5h = 7,5h
Visiting lecturers (to be confirmed) 1,5h
Individual assignments 10h
Groupwork 57,5h
Groupwork presentation and peer review 3*1,5h = 4,5 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5(Excellent)- The student possesses advanced skills in marketing planning theories and concepts. He/she is able to collect, combine and apply information in order to analytically study different courses of action to solve decision making problems and displays excellent problem solving and decision making skills. Student is able to make creative and professional strategic choices. He/she is able to make credible marketing decisions based on clear and thoroughly justified goal formulation and comprehensive situation analytics.
4(Very Good)- The student applies the holistic marketing concept effectively. He/she is able to independently collect, apply and deliver information from versatile sources and is able to make a synthesis of the theory. The student is able to make workable strategic choices and is able to make credible marketing decisions based on clear goal formulations. He/she is able to solve marketing decision problems by applying a synthesis of the theoretical background and literature to the pragmatic situation and displays good problem solving and decision making skills.
3(Good)- The student knows the concept of marketing planning comprehensively and is familiar with all the basic concepts. He/she is able to make strategic choices and is able to make marketing decisions based on goal formulations. The student is able to solve marketing decision problems by utilizing theoretical background and literature and displays problem solving and decision making skills.
2(Satisfactory)- The student knows the basics of marketing planning and is familiar with the basic concepts. He/she is able to make simple strategic choices and is able to make basic marketing decisions based partly on goal formulations. The student is able to present the results but the conclusions are incomplete.
1(Sufficient)- The student knows the basics of marketing planning. He/she is able to make simple strategic choices and make simple marketing decisions based partly on goal formulations.
0 (Fail) – The student doesn’t know the basics of marketing planning. He/she is not able to make simple strategic choices or make simple marketing decisions based partly on goal formulations.

Qualifications

The basics of marketing

Further information

Evaluation is based on following criteria:
Individual assignments
Individual assessment of individual assignments
Groupwork and presenting the groupwork to other students
Peer review of the groupwork