Purchase Solution

Marketing: Three Primary Performance Dimensions

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Identify and describe the three primary performance dimensions that are important to business unit managers and then compare low-cost defenders with prospectors in terms of these primary performance dimensions.

Purchase this Solution

Solution Preview

THREE PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS IMPORTANT TO SBU MANAGERS
The five major dimensions can be described as follows:
1 Financial Dimensions: represent the traditional approach to organizational success. In essence, it
would involve Dimensions such as sales, profits, or return on investment.
2 Customer/Market Dimensions: represent the relationship between an organization and its customers.
Customer-centric companies are adept at understanding customer needs and wants,
building products that meet these needs, and keeping them satisfied, resulting in high retention
rates.
3 Process Dimensions: reflect the organizational efficiency and improvement view. Many of the
influential business themes in the past decade have focused on process improvement-TQM,
learning SBUs, and team-based efforts.
4 People Development Dimensions: recognize the critical role of stakeholders in organizational success. The level of employee skills, commitment to technological leadership, personnel development,
staff slack resources are indicative of the essential role of employees in organizational success.
5 Preparing for the Future Dimensions: are clearly expressions of foresight. This dimension must be
viewed as a critical organizational issue and includes Dimensions such ...

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Business Processes

This quiz is intended to help business students better understand business processes, including those related to manufacturing and marketing. The questions focus on terms used to describe business processes and marketing activities.

Managing the Older Worker

This quiz will let you know some of the basics of dealing with older workers. This is increasingly important for managers and human resource workers as many countries are facing an increase in older people in the workforce

Organizational Behavior (OB)

The organizational behavior (OB) quiz will help you better understand organizational behavior through the lens of managers including workforce diversity.

Basic Social Media Concepts

The quiz will test your knowledge on basic social media concepts.

Learning Lean

This quiz will help you understand the basic concepts of Lean.