STRATEGIC MGMT LL CASEBOOK W/CONNECT
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To determine: Whether the business practice of Company P is ethical or not.
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Strategic management refers to formulating and implementing the way to achieve the goals by considering available resource and the internal and external environment. It will be framed by the top management on behalf of an organization.
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1. Enumerate three (3) effects of the company's selling prices on the business. Briefly discuss each.
2. How important is their selling price regarding the company's long-term sustainability?
3. In your opinion, how can they further improve their business?
3. Companies such as Johnson and Johnson are in a more advantaged position because they have the product knowledge and thus, consumers must rely on them for accurate information about product safety, usage, and effectiveness. Given this situation, companies have a duty to take special care to ensure that consumers' interests are not harmed by the products that they offer them. Discuss what can Johnson and Johnson do in design, production, and marketing to ensure that the above is achieved.
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Regarding product life-cycle planning, good marketing managers know that
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competing firms may introduce a product during any stage of the product life cycle.
every brand must go through the sales decline stage.
market introduction is usually profitable for the innovator.
any change in an existing product results in a new product life cycle.
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