ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY MBA FIRST YEAR AND
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DR. PRASANTH MBA PH.D. DME MOBILE / WHATSAPP: +91 9924764558 OR +91
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SECOND YEAR
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
2.1 PRODUCT AND SERVICES MARKETING
1. “Every service needs a product and every product needs a service” comment.
2. Assume you are a team member of the marketing research department of a low
cost domestic airline. Your manager has asked you to evaluate the service
quality of the airline. How would you go about It.? What service quality
dimensions would you use to evaluate the same?
3. Assume you are the marketing manager of a company manufacturing fully
automatic washing machines. What product support services would you provide
to the customer to have competitive advantage?
4. Customer waiting can be managed only by operations management’. Do you
agree with the statement? Justify your answer giving suitable examples.
2.2 MARKETING RESEARCH
1. Marketing Research has been suggested as a training ground for advancement in
the firm. Do you agree with this or do you feel that researchers should stay within
their specialty?
2. Assume you wish to determine whether men are brand-conscious when they are
shopping for suits. How could this question be studied using the observation
method? Using the questionnaire method?
3. Mr. Puneeth is running a FMCG production company which has market nationality
for the past 50 years. As it reaches maturing stage in its product life cycle, it has
planned to diversify its market from FMCG to Yarn exports. As a Chief Executive
Officer of the company how will you do marketing research for this new business to
find out the market potential?
4. Mr. Adithya, the Managing Director of ANC Limited has given a task to Mr. Sarath,
the R & D Manager to conduct a customer satisfaction survey for their brand of
shampoo among general public in major cities of Tamil Nadu. He has done the
customer satisfaction survey for the past six months. Now, Mr. Sarath has to
prepare the research report of his study. Assist Mr. Sarath in preparing the report
considering data and other necessary details for your own.
2.3 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
1. Consumer protection is an important issue. What areas of consumer behavior
appear to be most in need of increased regulation and / or consumer
education?
2. Assume that you are a marketing officer for a large furniture retailer. Prepare a
marketing program that would be successful in reaching consumers in the
25-34 age groups.
3. Assume that a soft-drink marketer wanted to increase penetration in the
Hispanic market. Prepare a set of recommendations for doing so.
4. Assume that a French manufacturer of women’s apparel is seeking to expand
markets by exporting to Canada. What marketing program should be
recommended for maximum effectiveness?
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2.4 RURAL MARKETING
1. Discuss the important dimension of the rural market demographics and their
implications for marketers of consumer doubles.
2. Explain the important communication concept relevant to the rural markets
what is the significance of usage of symbols and principle, colour and music and
rural marketing communication.
3. Looking at the profile of the rural consumers on Indian today. What are the key
challenges passed for Indian marketers in the rural marketing segments?
4. As the product manager of an established consumer goods company, how would
you handle the menace of spurious brands in the rural markets?
2.5 SALES AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
1. Write an essay on wholesaling? Explain the different marketing functions
performed by wholesaler-distributors for manufacturers with the help of suitable
examples.
2. What is the purpose of Sales Organization? What steps will you take for setting
up a Sales Organization? Explain with the help of suitable examples.
3. What are the different sources of Sales Force Recruits? Illustrate with the help of
suitable examples.
4. What special distribution challenges exist in India? What is the best way for
foreign companies to deal with these challenges? Explain
2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. If strategic planning is essentially a program, can it display the degree of
adaptiveness that 21st century enterprises need? Would ‘strategic
improvisation’ be a plausible alternative? Explore the practical consequences of
strategic improvisation for enterprise management.
2. Select an Automobile industry in India, and evaluate its competitive
business strategy using Porter’s five force model? What strategies can you
suggest to convert the unattractive forces in to attractive ones?
3. “Complementary mergers may result in each firm filling in the missing pieces
of their firm with pieces from other firm.” – Examine the validity of the
statement in the Indian context with necessary examples.
4. ‘Formality is the enemy of creativity and innovation’. ‘Informality is the
enemy of disciplined and reliable performance’. Is it consequently impossible
for an enterprise to be both innovative and disciplined? Investigate how
these qualities can be combined.
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2.7.1 E-COMMERCE
1. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future
prospect of e-commerce.
2. Explain the characteristics of large companies that involve B2G and B2C
transactions in their business, which require roboust, capable and scalable
electgronic commerce system.
3. Visit the following sites:
www.olx.com / www.labour.tn.gov.in / www.clicks.co.za / www.digitalplanet.co.za
a. For each site determine whether it is in the exposure stage, interaction
stage, e-commerce stage or e-business stage. Provide reasons for your answer.
b. Determine whether each site is B2C, C2C, C2B or B2B and why.
c. Critically discuss the process of setting up a free-standing website and
evaluate the potential of e-commerce for small business development in India.
4. Consider the development of a portal for a Retailer shop. Discuss the various
technologies, tools and components involved in designing the same.
2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Below is the gist of an article from Business Week. After reading it
(a) identify the broad problem area,
(b) define the problem, and
(c) explain how you would proceed further.
“While Chrysler‘s minivans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles take a big share
of the truck market, its cars trail behind those of GM, Ford, Honda, and Toyota.
Quality problems include, among other things, water leaks and defective parts”.
2. It is advantageous to develop a directional hypothesis whenever we are sure of
the predicted direction. How will you justify this statement?
3. If a control group is a part of an experimental design, one need not worry about
controlling other exogenous variables. Discuss this statement
4. Whenever possible, it is advisable to use instruments that have already been
developed and repeatedly used in published studies, rather than develop our
own instruments for our studies. Do you agree? Discuss the reasons for your
answer.
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