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Technolgical Products Marketing - course description

General information
Course name Technolgical Products Marketing
Course ID 06.9-WM-MaPE-P-TechPrMark-23
Faculty Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Field of study Management and Production Engineering
Education profile academic
Level of studies First-cycle studies leading to Engineer's degree
Beginning semester winter term 2023/2024
Course information
Semester 4
ECTS credits to win 3
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr inż. Małgorzata Śliwa
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Lecture 15 1 - - Credit with grade
Project 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

The main learning outcome will be to learn about the elements of marketing, the essence of marketing management and building a marketing plan. The student will also learn about current trends to support promotional activities (e.g. social media).

Prerequisites

Business Management and Economics

Scope

Lecture:

L1: Outline of marketing theory, strategic and operational marketing. Categories of marketing, marketing of production and consumer goods, goods, services and information, buyer behaviour, marketing of services. Marketing of technological products.

L2: Marketing strategy.

L3-4: Marketing plan. Market analysis (proximity analysis using benchmarking method), SWOT analysis, resource analysis. Marketing MIX: product - product life cycle, positioning of the offer, market segmentation, benefits from the purchase of a product, the concept of assortment, stages of introducing new products, the concept of brand, positioning and repositioning, product perception maps, price - pricing strategies, break-even point, types of prices, price calculation, distribution - distribution channels, types of distribution, distribution systems, degrees of intensity of distribution, optimal size of an order, management of the distribution process, promotion - advertising, packaging, sales promotion, public relations, publicity, propaganda, personal selling, forms of promotion.

L5: Social media in marketing.

L6: Neuromarketing: definition, purpose, examples, ways of research.

L7: Marketing information system - internal company documentation, marketing intelligence, marketing research - defining the subject and purpose of the research, developing a research plan, collecting information, analysing information, research reports, marketing research methods - interview, observation, survey questionnaires, etc., marketing decision support system. E-comerce.

L8. Passing form: written test. Proposal of final grades.

 

Project:

P1: Establish the scope of the project: data of the potential company - industry, company structure, target group, area of activity, products (services) offered - i.e. the idea and the current state, define the purpose of the project - i.e. for which product a marketing strategy will be created.

Q2: Conduct a competitor analysis using benchmarking methodology. Identify the potential product (service) life cycle. SWOT analysis. 

P3: Marketing MIX: definition of the price calculation process, choice of the price determination method, proposal of the pricing strategy; definition of the distribution strategy: number of channels, description of functions and relationships. Selection of promotion mix measures, proposal of promotion strategy.

P4-5: Design of promotional activities using social media.

P6-7: Conduct marketing research - define the purpose of the research, group of respondents develop a survey questionnaire, conduct a pilot study, make changes to the survey questionnaire, conduct the main study, present the results of the study. Define a marketing plan for the venture.

P8: Passinf terms: project and a multimedia presentation of the project. Proposal of final grades

Teaching methods

Lcture: conventional

Project: consultation having a seminar character, team working.

 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture - Written test.

Classes - grade from project and its presentation.

Final grade  - the condition for passing the course is to pass all its forms. The final grade for completing the course is the arithmetic mean of grades for individual forms of classes.

Recommended reading

  1. Hammond, K. L., Content Marketing: Social Media Content Marketing. N.p.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
  2. Setiawan, Iwan., Kartajaya, Hermawan., Kotler, Philip. Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital. Germany: Wiley, 2016.
  3. Setiawan, Iwan., Kartajaya, Hermawan., Kotler, Philip. Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity.GB: Wiley, 2021.
  4. Trzmielak D., Zehner W., Marketing nowych technologii i produktów B+R, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, 2020
  5. Sheldrake, John. Technology, Business and the Market: From R&D to Desirable Products. Wielka Brytania: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014.
  6. Luther, William M., The Marketing Plan: How to Prepare and Implement it. USA: AMACOM, 2011.

Further reading

  1. Product Innovation Toolbox: A Field Guide to Consumer Understanding and Research. Wielka Brytania: Wiley, 2022.
  2. Kotler Ph.: Marketing. Analiza, planowanie, wdrażanie i kontrola, Gebethner i S-ka, Warszawa, 1994
  3. Patalas-Maliszewska J., Woźniak W., Kłos S.: Ekonomiczne aspekty wdrażania innowacji w przedsiębiorstwach MSP, Oficyna Wydaw. Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, Zielona Góra, 2008
  4. Trzmielak D., Zehner W., Marketing nowych technologii i produktów B+R, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, 2020
  5. Stawarz-García B.: Content marketing i social media: Jak przyciągnąć klientów, PWN, Warszawa, 2017

Notes


Modified by dr inż. Małgorzata Śliwa (last modification: 12-05-2023 19:38)