Assessment Task - Learner's Instructions

Assessment Task: Written Questions

You are required to individually answer all of the following questions:

Question 1:

How would you determine whether the opportunities are likely to contribute to the business? (100-150 words)

Question 2:

Your client has identified a viable marketing opportunity and has asked you to identify and document changes needed to current operations to take advantage of this opportunity. Please write a checklist showing the criteria you have considered and the changes required in each area.

Question 3:

What factors does an organisation need to consider ensuring that organisational changes to service an increased or different customer base include provision for continued quality of service to existing customers? Provide at least five examples.

Question 4:

What resource requirements must be estimated before an organisation enters a new market? Provide at least six examples.

Question 5:

Who are eight of the key stakeholders in any organisation and what information do they need to ensure that proposed changes to current operations will be viable? (40-60 words)

Question 6:

Your organisation has committed to developing a new product for its existing markets and to entering a new market for its existing products. You have been directed to document the changes needed for one of these markets. Draft the memo which you would issue in response.

Question 7:

Describe the structure/ form that direct marketing can take. (50-75 words}

Question 8:

What are the advantages and disadvantages to an organisation of having a broad marketing mix? Provide at least two examples of each.

Question 9:

Against what kind of goals should marketing opportunities be evaluated? Provide at least five examples and briefly describe how they should be structured/ quantified