Monday, 3 December 2012

OUGD502 // Lecture // Who are they?

Markets, Audience & Analysis

Marketing Roles:
- identify consumer needs
- pricing strategy
- promote products to target audience
- identify distribution networks
- add value - customer benefits
- monitor performance of products

4p's
Product - item to satisfy what need / want
Price - amount to pay for product
Promotion - methods of communication. How markets find out about the product
Place - where the product is

87% of design businesses employ less than 10 people
16 % of design companies are in North of England
23% of design companies are in London
28% of designers are freelance

What kind of creative are you?
Evolutionary
- The evolutionary is someone who adapts current situations, products and designs to gradually make changes that will carry people along with you

Manager
- The manager looks after existing situations and makes them more effective and efficient

Cautious
- A cautious creative will give the market what it wants

Revolutionary
- The revolutionary will plough through everything and everyone to make change


Opportunist
- The Opportunist will seek new opportunities and hopes someone else will help them make it work

Risk Taker
- The risk taker will give the market something it didn’t realise it needed yet

Ideas and Opportunities
What is an idea?
- anytime, anybody, anywhere, inspire by anything
- random, rarely successful
- 5000 ideas a day

What is an opportunity?

- The People are Right
- The Place is Right
- The conditions are Right
- The Time is Right
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME

Why Fail?

Politicians could not see any benefit
Economics were fragmented
Society had no need
Technology too primitive

Positives & Negatives :
Political factors
Environmental Factors
Social Factors
Technological Factors

P.E.S.T analysis

Where do opportunities come from?

- Trends
- Technical developments
- Political change
- Economic boom and slump
- Human need
- Problems
- Research

Spotting opportunities:

Skills
- Technical
- Practical
- Conceptual
- Professional

Aptitudes
- Teamwork
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Project Management
- People Management

Predisposition
- Risk / Cautious
- Evolution / Revolution
- Manager / Opportunist

How do you know if its good opportunity?

- Look at your competitors
- How many are there?
- How well are they doing
- What do they do well?
- What could you improve upon?

Assessing the competition:
- What are their Strengths?
- What are their Weaknesses?
- What Opportunities have they taken?
- What Threats do they face?

SWOT Analysis:

Quality of opportunity:
- For me
- For customer
- For planet
- For stakeholder

OVERVIEW
Marketing Roles:
- Identify customer needs to develop new products
- Develop pricing strategies
- Promote products to a target market
- Identify distribution networks
- Add value to your product through customer benefits
- Monitor the performance of the products

Marketing Basics:
PEST ANALYSIS      
- What are the chances of success?
SWOT ANALYSIS    
- How good is the opportunity?
PUSH & PULL
SUPPLY & DEMAND
- What do I have what do they need?






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