Marketing management

Structure Type: Course
Code: KB02CLIMJ4
Type: Elective
Level: Bachelor
Credits: 4.0 points
Responsible Teacher: Holma, Heikki
Language of Instruction: Finnish

Learning Outcomes

Students will become familiar with the planning and managing of marketing. They will be competent in compiling a marketing plan for a case company using their previously acquired knowledge.

Upon completion of the course, students will

- understand marketing as a part of a company's strategic business planning and management,
- acquire profound knowledge of the model of environmental marketing and the knowledge environment model and understand the significance of their operationalisation and implementation,
- understand the differences and connections between the strategies for consolidates, overall business, and marketing, as well as the connections strategies have to organisational structures, procedures and operations schemes,
- understand the more common strategic and operative management standards, which are also feasible to use in marketing management,
- be competent in assessing the development that takes place in the field and the impact it has on a company's marketing, and
- be competent in applying the knowledge they learn when compiling a marketing plan for a case company.

Student's Workload

Total work load of the course 108 h
- of which schedule studies 32 h
- of which autonomous studies 76 h

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

No previous studies are required.

Contents

- Strategic and operative planning and management of marketing
- Model of environmental marketing and the knowledge environment model
- Strategic decisions, structures, procedures and operations schemes in marketing
-Marketing plan

Recommended or Required Reading

- Juslin H. and Hansen E. .2002 Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries (assigned pages). Authors Academic Press.
- Juslin H. & Neuvonen J. 1997. Metsäteollisuustuotteiden markkinointi. Ministry of Education.
- Other material to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Lectures
- Supervised assignments
- Field trips
- Exam

Assessment Criteria

Grading will be announced during the course.

Assessment Methods

- Active participation
- Assignments
- Exam
- Grading based on a scale of 1 to 5

Work Placement

None

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