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MKTG3008 – Marketing and Customer Insights

2020 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde

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General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Con Korkofingas
con.korkofingas@mq.edu.au
Contact via con.korkofingas@mq.edu.au
Room 144, 3 Management Drive
Tuesday 11-12pm
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above including ((STAT150 or STAT1250 or STAT170 or STAT1170) and (MKTG202 or MKTG2002) and MKTG2017)
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

The digital revolution has created an enormous volume of data about markets, customers and the business environment which marketers have sought to incorporate into their strategic decision-making. Yet, raw data on its own adds very little to the strategic decision process. Marketers need to understand how to organise and analyse available data to generate actionable insights. Such insights are useful in anticipating future consumer needs, identifying trends, forecasting market conditions, gauging competition and making informed predictions about an ever-changing environment. Marketers then utilise these insights to build compelling narratives and to provide actionable recommendations for important marketing decisions.
In this unit students will investigate appropriate data, data sources and analytic techniques required to generate input for key marketing decisions regarding markets and customers. Students will assess suitable data analysis techniques and evaluate generated output to develop insights and determine potential marketing decision options. Additionally, students will appraise these key options by estimating likely impacts and integrating these impacts with practical organisational issues.

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Investigate and apply appropriate data, data sources and analytic techniques required to generate input for key marketing decisions regarding markets and customers.
  • ULO2: Examine output from relevant analyses to generate insights and determine potential options for key marketing decisions.
  • ULO3: As individuals and in groups, synthesise insights from analyses to evaluate potential options and create practical solutions with actionable recommendations for key marketing decisions

Assessment Tasks

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General Assessment Information

Late assessment submissions must also be submitted through the appropriate submission link in iLearn. No extensions will be granted unless an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. Late submissions will not be accepted after solutions have been discussed and/or made available.

Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.

Delivery and Resources

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This unit is delivered on campus through weekly 3-hour seminars. The seminars comprise lectures, case studies and other interactive learning activities. 

Prescribed Text:

  • Rajkumar Venkatesan, Paul Farris and Ronald T. Wilcox (2015) “Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics: Real World Cases and Data Sets for Hands-On Learning” Pearson Education - ISBN-13: 978-0133552522; ISBN-10: 0133552527

Other Useful Texts:

  • Chuck Chakrapani (2018) “Analytics for Customer Insights: A Non-Technical Introduction” ISBN- 10:0920219527
  • Ömer Artun and Dominique Levin (2015) “Predictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big Data” Wiley, ISBN 978-1-119-03736-1 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-119-03732-3 (ePDF); ISBN 978-1-119-03733-0 (ePub)
  • Mike Grigsby (2018) “Marketing Analytics: A Practical Guide to Improving Consumer Insights Using Data Techniques” 2nd Edition, Kogan Page, ISBN 978 0 7494 8216 9; E-ISBN 978 0 7494 8217 6

Unit Schedule

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Changes from Previous Offering

This is a new unit. Although it has a similar code to MKTG308, the unit teaches methods for generating marketing and consumer insights rather than customer relationship management.