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PIERCY • BRIGETTE
NICOULAUD
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Customer analysis
Introduction
• Information; raw material for decision making
• Marketing research; provision of information to
reduce level of uncertainty in decision making
• Chapter includes;
– Information needs about customers
– Research techniques for collecting data
– Uses of these techniques i.e. creating &
segmenting market and identifying current and
potential product/service positions
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What we need to know about
customers
• Grouped into current and future information
• Critical issues concerning current customers;
– Who are the prime market targets?
– What give them value?
– How they can be brought closer?
– How can they be better served?
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Figure 4.1 Who is the customer?
Initiator
Purchaser Decider
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Information on current customers
• Recognizing five roles can be useful in
targeting marketing activity
– The initiator – initiates the research for solution to
consumer’s problem
– The influencer – influence on purchase decision
– The decider – actually make the decision
– The purchaser – buys the product or service
– The user – consumes the product or service
• Different approaches may be suitable
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Figure 4.2 Understanding customers-the key
questions
WHO
Is involved in buying
and consuming?
HOW WHAT
Do they use the Are their choice
product? criteria?
CUSTOMERS
WHERE WHEN
Do they buy? Do they buy/use
the product?
WHY
Do they buy/use
the product?
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Information on future customers
• Two main types of change essential to
customer analysis
– First; change in existing customers their wants,
needs and expectations (Kaizen approach)
– Second; new customers emerging as potentially
more attractive targets
• Main way to analyze customers is through
marketing research and market modeling
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MARKETING RESEARCH
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Figure 4.3 Marketing-research methods
Marketing
research methods
Tailor-maid Off-the-peg
Company records
research research
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Company records
• Company’s own records
– Data about who purchase and how much
purchase may be obtained from invoice records
– Purchase records may show customer loyalty
pattern
• Identify gaps in customer purchasing and
highlight most valuable customers
• Collect routine data on as detail a basis as
possible for unforeseen data requirements
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Off-the-peg research
• Tapping into existing research services; data
that are already in existence
– Information such as market size, growth rates,
economic trends
• Crouch and Housden classify research as;
– Secondary or desk research
– Syndicated research
– Shared research
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Secondary desk research
• Data already been published by someone else
• Advantages;
– Relatively cheap, quick to obtain, can be reliable
and accurate i.e. govt. publications
• Disadvantages;
– Out of date and not specific enough, vary
dramatically in quality, both from country to
country and supplier to supplier
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Following question must be born in mind to
check accuracy of secondary data
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Syndicated research
• Research buyers share costs and findings of
research among themselves
• Conducted by marketing research agencies
and sold to whoever will buy
• Examples are A.C. Nelsen, TCA, AGB, TGI etc
• Advantages; methodology usually tried and
tested, samples are often bigger
• Disadvantages; data are limited in usefulness
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Shared research
• Some of the costs and fieldwork are shared by
number of companies but not results
• Advantages;
– Established methodologies and are relatively quick
and cheap to tap into
• Disadvantages;
– Its scope and number of questions that can be
asked
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Tailor-made research
• Flexibility to design the research to exactly
match the need of the client company
• Categorized as quantitative and qualitative
research
– Qualitative research emphasize gaining
understanding and depth in data that can not be
quantified
– Quantitative research involves large samples and
produces quantifiable outputs
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Qualitative techniques
• Unstructured or semi-structured interviewing
methods
• Two main techniques are used; group
discussion and individual depth interviews
• Group discussion take the form of relaxed,
informal discussion among 7-9 respondents
• The Depth interview takes place between one
interviewer and one respondent
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Figure 4.4 Uses of qualitative research
Understanding
Helping the findings of
structure later large-scale
research projects
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Quantitative techniques
• Include surveys, observation methods and
experimentation
• Surveys are vast subject in themselves
• Surveys include three types; personal
interviews, telephone interviews and postal
surveys (mail)
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Figure 4.5 Uses of surveys
To provide
quantitative data
on markets and
customers
To determine
To determine
customer
customer Surveys requirements and
behavior
expectations
To determine
To provide data
customer
for segmentation
opinions and
of markets
perceptions
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Surveys
Personal interviews Telephone interviews
Advantages Advantages
• Greatest flexibility • Data is acquired quickly
• Useful in attitudinal • Low cost
statements, • Closely controlled
Disadvantages Disadvantages
• Most expensive to conduct • Every one may not have
telephone
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Surveys (Cont’d)
Postal methods
Advantages Disadvantages
• Cheapest of all • Low response rate
• Useful in locating • Little control over who
geographically disperse responds
samples • Requires clearly laid out
questionnaire, well
pretested to insure clarity
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Observation techniques
• Observation techniques can be particularly
useful where respondents are unlikely to be
able or willing to give the types of information
required
– Observing what items a shopper has taken from
supermarket shelf, considered for purchase but
not bought
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Experimentation
• Experiments are either carried out in the field
or in-house (laboratory)
• Field experiments take place in the real world
• In-house experiments are conducted in more
controlled but less realistic settings
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Figure 4.6 Uses of experimentation
To establish the
To establish
strength of
causation
relationship
To test customer
reactions to
alternative
strategies
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THE MARKETING RESEARCH
PROCESS
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Figure 4.7 Stages in a comprehensive marketing
research project
Problem
definition
Exploratory
research
Quantitative
research
Analysis and
interpretation
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Problem definition
• Define clearly the problem to be tackled
• Series of discussion between marketing
research personal and marketing decision
maker are necessary
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Exploratory research
• Identify information gaps and specify the need
for further research
• Initially secondary sources and company
records can be utilized
• Qualitative research might then be used to
explore
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Quantitative research
• Help in formulating hypothesis about how
market is segmented and what factors
influence purchase
• Followed by quantitative study
– Ask respondents to evaluate competing products
• Experimentation might also be used in
quantitative phase of segmentation
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Analysis and interpretation
• Turn the data generated into meaningful
information
– Factor analysis
– Cluster analysis
– Perceptual mapping
• Finally results will be presented to senior
marketing decision-maker
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Organizing customer information
• Information is organized through MIS
• Information system (MIS) has five basic
components;
– Market research interface to collect data
– The raw data collected
– Statistical techniques used to analyze
– Market models to utilize raw data and statistical
techniques
– Finally managerial interface as decision maker
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Figure 4.8 Marketing decision support systems
Marketing decision-maker
Managerial interface
Decisions
Responses
Statistical Market
techniques models
Raw data
Marketing research
interface
Marketing environment
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Raw data
• Data come into system from variety of
sources, from internal and external primary
and secondary sources
• Stored in various forms i.e. paper, people’s
head, on computer
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Statistical techniques
• Synthesize and analyze the raw data
• Commonly used statistics are averages,
means, standard deviations, ranges etc
• Market models
– Model is representation of the real world
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Marketing decision support systems
• Change in emphases in marketing from
information systems (MIS) to marketing
decision support systems
• Provision of question and answer facilities
• Grouped into two types;
• Data-oriented decision support systems,
– Data retrieval and simple analysis using statistical techniques
• Model-oriented decision support systems
– Simulation and representation of aspects of the real world
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Characteristics of MDSS
• MDSS support decisions!
– Support rather than replace, managerial decision
making
• MDSS are essentially interactive
– Ask questions, receive inputs and experiment with
decision
• MDSS should be flexible and easy to use
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