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Marketing Strategy

When you'll study it
Semester 2
CATS points
15
ECTS points
7.5
Level
Level 4
Module lead
Philip Megicks
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

The module considers strategic marketing decisions and their implications for organisations in regard to achieving their goals and objectives. It focuses on employing a market-led strategic approach to decision making through providing value to customers and developing a sustainable competitive advantage. The module adopts a planning perspective on marketing decision making which involves assessing the external and internal dimensions of the strategy process. It considers alternative strategic options in terms of market and product alternatives, their evaluation and selection, programmes for effective implementation, and measures for establishing performance. Contemporary competitive marketing forces are considered together with the application of strategic decision making to marketing in a range of different organisational contexts.

Linked modules

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Marketing MANG1015