Module-2

Analyzing Marketing
Environment
 Marketing Environment:
• The marketing environment refers to all internal
and external factors, which directly or indirectly
influence the organization’s decisions related to
marketing activities.
• Internal factors are within the control of an
organization; whereas, external factors do not fall
within its control.
• The external factors include government,
technological, economical, social, and competitive
forces; whereas, organization’s strengths,
weaknesses, and competencies form the part of
internal factors.
 Types of environment:

• Micro Environnent

• Macro Environnent
 Micro Environment
• Suppliers:
• Marketing Intermediaries:
• a. Resellers:
• b. Distribution Centers:
• c. Marketing Agencies:
• d. Financial Intermediaries:
• iii. Customers:
• iv. Competitors:
 Macro Environment:

• Macro environment involves a set of environmental

factors that is beyond the control of an organization.

• These factors influence the organizational activities to a

significant extent.

• Macro environment is subject to constant change.

• The changes in macro environment bring opportunities

and threats in an organization.
 I- Demographic Environment:
• Demographic environment is the scientific study of human
population in terms of elements, such as age, gender,
education, occupation, income, and location.

• It also includes the increasing role of women and

technology.

• These elements are also called as demographic variables.

• Before marketing a product, a marketer collects the

information to find the suitable market for the product.
 II- Economic Environment:

• Economic environment affects the organization’s

costs structure and customers’ purchasing power.

• The purchasing power of a customer depends on

the current income, prices of the product, savings,
and credit availability.
 The factors economic
environment is as follows:
a. Inflation:

b. Interest Rates:

c. Unemployment:

d. Customer Income:

e. Monetary and Fiscal Policy:

 III. Natural Environment:
• Natural environment consists of natural resources,
which are needed as raw materials to manufacture
products by the organization.
• The marketing activities affect these natural
resources, such as depletion of ozone layer due to
the use of chemicals.
• The corrosion of the natural environment is
increasing day-by-day and is becoming a global
problem.
Natural factors affect the marketing
activities of an organization
• A. Natural Resources:

• b. Weather:

• c. Pollution:
 iv. Socio-Cultural Environment:
• Socio-cultural environment comprises forces, such
as society’s basic values, attitudes, perception, and
behavior.
• These forces help in determining that what type of
products customers prefer, what influences the
purchase attitude or decision, which brand they
prefer, and at what time they buy the products.
• The socio-cultural environment explains the
characteristics of the society in which the
organization exists. The analysis of socio-cultural
environment helps an organization in identifying
the threats and opportunities in an organization.
 Technological Environment:

• Technology contributes to the economic growth of

a country. It has become an indispensable part of
our lives.

• Organizations that fail to track ongoing

technological changes find it difficult to survive in
today’s competitive environment.
Technological trends
affect the marketing
environment:
a. Pace of Technological Change:

b. Research and Development:

c. Increased Regulation:

vi. Political and Legal Environment:

 Various legislations affecting the
marketing activities are as
follows:
• a. Anti-pollution laws, which affect the production

or manufacturing of various products.

• b. Customer legislation, which tries to protect the

customer’s interest.
 The important acts set by the Indian
government, which effect the marketing
environment of an organization:
• i. Prevention of Food and Adulteration – 1954
• ii. Drugs Control Act – 1954
• iii. Company Act – 1956
• iv. Standard Weights and Measurement Act – 1956
• v. MRTP- Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices – 1969
• vi. Display of Price Order – 1963
• vii. Indian Patents Act – 1970
• viii. Packaged Commodities Order – 1975
• ix. Environment Act – 1986
• x. Consumer Protection Act – 1986
 The marketing environmental
analysis will help the marketer to:
• Become well acquainted with the changes in the
environment.
• Gain qualitative information about the business environment;
which will help him to develop strategies in order to cope
with ever changing environment.
• Conduct marketing analysis in order to understand the
markets needs and wants so as to modify its products to
satisfy these market requirements.
• Decide on matters related to Government-legal-regulatory
policies in a particular country so as to formulate its strategies
successfully amidst these policies.
• Allocate its resources effectively and diversify either into a
new market segment or totally into a new business which is
outside the scope of its existing business.
• Identify the threats from the environment in terms of new
competitors, price wars, competitor’s new products or services,
etc.; and prepare its strategies on the basis of that.
• Identify the opportunities in the environment and exploit these
opportunities to firm’s advantage. These opportunities can be in
terms of emergence of new markets; mergers, joint ventures, or
alliances; market vacuum occurred due to exit of a competitor, etc.
• Identify its weaknesses such as lower quality of goods or services;
lack of marketing expertise; or lack of unique products and
services; and prepare strategies to convert its weaknesses into
strengths.
• Identify its strengths and fully exploit them in firm’s advantage.
These strengths can be in terms of marketing expertise, superior
product quality or services, or giving unique innovative products or
services.
SWOT Analysis
Porter's Five Forces Model
 Analysing Industry Attractiveness
Threat
Porters’ Five Forces of Subs
Power of Suppliers Threat of New Entrants
- dominated by a few large companies
- input is unique or differentiated --- alternative
there is economies of scale
products
product are differentiated e.g. brands are
Industry Rivalry
- input has large switching costs - capital is required to enter e.g. fixed assets

Threat of New Entrants

- input cannot easily be substituted

Power of Suppliers
- supplier poses a threat of forward integration
- access to distribution channels
- government policy restrictions
- numerous Power
- there is players ofscale
Buyers
of roughly equal size
- you are not important to supplier
economies of
eg. licensing, safety

- a---slow
dominated
few
product arerate
or large of by a few
growth
volume Industry
differentiated
- numerous
large
in Rivalry
the
buyers companies
industry
players of roughly equal e.g.size brands
--input
- lack of
standard is unique - a slow rateor
differentiation
undifferentiated differentiated
to enterproducts
of growth in the industry
- capital is - required lack of differentiation e.g. fixed assets
-
- lack input of
-- represents has
switching large a high switching
costs
- lack of switching
proportion
costs costs of buyers costs
access to- capacity distribution channels
can be increased only in large amounts
--input
- capacitybuyer cannot
can
is in be
a
- high easily
low
exit barriers be substituted
increasedprofit only in large amounts
industry
- government policy
- rivals are restrictions
strategically diverse
--supplier
- high exit
unimportant poses
barriers to a threat
quality of
of forward
buyers integration
product
eg.
Power licensing,
of Buyers safety Threat of Substitutes
--you
- - rivalsproduct are strategically
are notdoes importantdiverse tothe supplier
products not save buyer money
- few or large volume buyers
standard undifferentiated - alternative products are available
- buyer posesindustry a threat of backward integration
- represents a high proportion of buyers costs
- buyer is in a low profit
- unimportant to quality of buyers product
- product does not save the buyer money
- buyer poses a threat of backward integration
(Porter, 1979) Porters5Forces | 1
 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Porter's Five Forces is a framework for
analyzing a company's competitive
environment.
• The number and power of a company's
competitive rivals, potential new market
entrants, suppliers, customers, and substitute
products influence a company's profitability.
• Five Forces analysis can be used to guide
business strategy to increase competitive
advantage.