Marketing Information Systems:
part 1
Course code: PV250
Dalia Kriksciuniene, PhD
Faculty of Informatics, Lasaris lab.,
ERCIM research program
Autumn, 2012
Timetable
Part 1: Oct.22 Mon 14:00–17:50 C525
Part 2: Oct.23 Tue 8:00–11:50 G101
Part 3: Nov. 05 Mon 14:00–17:50 C525
Part 4: Nov. 05 Tue 8:00–11:50 G101
Part 5: Dec.10 Mon 14:00–17:50 C525
Part 6: Dec.11 Tue 8:00–11:50 G101
Assessment session: 1-2nd week of January
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Syllabus 1
∞ Marketing domain area
∞ The user’ requirements for the information
content, inputs, retrieval and presentation
∞ Definitions, functions, requirements for the
marketing information systems (MKIS).
∞ MkIS structure and concepts
∞ Investigation of the theoretical and
experimental research in MkIS area in the
scientific literature.
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Marketing as a domain area
Many definitions of marketing- different accents
(AMA-American marketing association definitions, ammended)
Marketing is a social process by which
individuals an groups obtain what they need
and want through creating and exchanging
products and value with others (Kotler, Turner,
1985)
Keywords:
Needs, wants, demands
Products
Values and satisfaction
Exchange and transactions
Markets 4
Needs, wants, demands
Need is a state of felt deprivation of some
basic satisfaction
• E.g. food, clothing –things of survival. These needs
are not created by society or marketers, they exist
in human biology
Wants are desires for specific satisfiers of
deeper needs.
• They are different is various societies: a person
needs food and wants oyster, needs clothing and
wants a Chanel outfit, needs esteem and wants
fancy necklace. Wants are continuously reshaped
by social forces and communities (families,
schools, church, etc.)
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Needs, wants, demands
Demands are wants for specific products that
are backed up by an ability and willingness to
obtain them by exchange.
Wants become demands when backed up by
purchasing power.
Companies have to measure not only how
many people want their product but how
many would actually be willing and able to
buy it.
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Needs, wants, demands
These distinctions answer frequent critics for
marketing “marketers create needs” or “marketers get
people to buy things they don’t want”.
Marketers do not create needs- they preexist
marketers. E.g. marketers do not create need for social
status.
Along with other influential forces marketers
influence wants. They suggest to consumers or try to
point out how particular product would satisfy need (e.g.
BMW car or Parker pen for satisfying need for social status)
Marketers try to influence demand by making
product attractive, affordable, available
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Products
Broad understanding of product: anything that
can be offered to someone to satisfy a need or
want.
Product as a physical object serves as a
vehicle for getting service (e.g. car for riding it).
Services are carried by other vehicles such as
persons, places, activities, organizations,
ideas. Product covers all vehicles that are
capable of delivering satisfaction of a want or
need
Tangible and intangible products. Other terms
for product: offer, satisfier, resource.
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Values and satisfaction
How do consumers choose among the products that
might satisfy a given need ?
E.g. how can we travel ? By foot, roller skates, bicycle, car, plane
or cruise ship.
The list makes a choice set.
According to it we can make a product set
The goal set which we want to satisfy in need for
traveling, e.g. speed, cost, ease. Each product has
difference capacity to satisfy goals.
What is the ideal product ?
Product space is the rating of products by customer
perception how far is is from ideal. Value (or utility) is
greater if product is nearer to ideal 9
Exchange and transactions
Marketing exists when people decide to satisfy needs
and wants in way we call exchange.
Four ways of exchange:
Self production (e.g. relieve hunger by fishing) - no marketing,
as there is no interaction
Coercion (e.g. wrest food from other) – no benefit is offered to
other party
Begging (e.g. approach other)- no tangible to offer, except
gratitude
Exchange (offer resource in exchange for good: money,
another good, service)- marketing arises from this approach
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Exchange and transactions
Exchange is the defining concept underlying
marketing- the act of obtaining desired product
from someone offering something in return
Terms for exchange: leave them both better or not
worse, that’s why exchange is a value creating
process
Exchange has to be seen as a process not event
(two partied finding each other, negotiating, moving towards
agreement)
If the agreement is reached, transaction occurs.
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Markets
Economist view: market is the place where
buyers and sellers gather
Marketers view: market consists of all
potential customers sharing a particular need
or want, able for exchange to satisfy it.
Market are seen as buyers (their groupings),
the sellers-as industry. They are connected
with flows:
Communication
Products (goods/services)
Money
Information
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Summary of marketing
concepts
Marketing means human activity that takes
place in relation to markets.
Marketer seeks for resource form someone
and willing to offer something of value in
exchange.
Marketer is seeking response from other
party, and can take a role of seller or buyer.
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Marketing management
It is the analysis, planning, implementation and control
of programs
designed to create, build, and maintain beneficial
exchanges and relationships with target markets
for the purpose of achieving organizational
objectives
The organization forms the idea of a desired level of
transactions with the target market. It has a task of
influencing the level, timing, composition of demand
according to goals.
States of demand to cope: negative absent, latent,
falling, irregular, full, overfull, unwholesome demand
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Marketing management
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Marketing
orientation
Focus Means Ends
Production
concept
Mass production lowering
costs and price
High production
efficiency and wide
distribution
coverage
Sell what is
produced. Leads to
impersonality of
consumer
Product
concept
Seeking for quality (as it is
understood by producer),
hoping that consumer
favors only products of
exceptional performance
Make good
products and
improve them over
time
Selling what
producers “love”
themselves cause
marketing “myopia”
losing sight what
customer wants
Selling
concept
Product distribution Selling and
promotion
Profits through
sales volume
Marketing
concept
Meet customer needs Integrated
marketing
Profits through
customer
satisfaction.
Societal
marketing
concept
Determine customer
needs
Deliver needs
fulfillment better
than competitors
Preserve and
ensure long-run
society welfare
Marketing’s role in a company
• Equal function or “primary four”:
marketing, production, finance, personnel
• More important function
• Central major function
• Customer –central function for controlling
4 primary functions
• Customer as controlling, marketing and
integrative function in the center
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Marketing’s role in a company
Production
FinanceMarketing
Personnel
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Marketing
ProductionFinance
Personnel
Equal Marketing-more important
Customer-central controlling
function shaping marketing
Marketing theories
Most prevailing theory is 4P (McCarthy, 1968)marketing
mix (customer, markets, etc. missing here).
Extension by Kotler (megamarketing) 4+2P
Booms&Bitner (Service marketing) 4+3P
Baumgartner (1991) – 15P
The mix concept was initially developed by Neil Burden
(1964) derived from Culliton (1948) : marketing is a mix
of ingredients (12 elements +4 forces) (Product planning, pricing,
branding, channels of distribution, personal selling, advertising, promotions,
packaging, display, servicing, physical handling, fact finding and analysis) +
(behavior of : consumers buying, trades’ (ret.wh), competitors and their position,
governmental
Search for suitable set of ingredients for each
transaction with customer. 18
4P – marketing mix components
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Marketing theories – 4P concept expansion
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Marketing theories
Relationship marketing theory (Gronroos1996,
Gummesson,1999 and USA “school”.
Christopher, Payne, Ballantyne (1991) Six markets
Kotler (1992) Ten players
Morgan, Hunt (1994) Ten partnerships
Gummesson 30R :classical relationships (3), special (14),
mega (6), nano (7)
Relationship history of communication with customer
leads to future activities including transactions.
Relationship processes can be considered as tangible, as
they use resources and can be measured by quantitative
indicators. They have life cycle. (Gronroos, 1996). 21
Marketing and management
processes (functions)
• 5 Key Functions of Management
∞ Plan
∞ Organise
∞ Make decisions (Command)
∞ Co-ordinate
∞ Control
If the specialist does not perform any of
these functions, he cannot be considered as
manager.
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MIS & Related Organisational
Functions (Lucey, T.)
Operational Mgmt
Tactical
Management
Strategic
Mgmt
Strategic Management:
Provides an organisation with overall
direction and guidance – mission and
vision (e.g. presidents, vice-prez.)
Tactical Management:
Develops the goals and strategies
outlined by Strategic Management
(e.g. Head of marketing department
Operational Management
Manages and directs the day-to-day
operations and implementations of
the goals and strategies, e.g. sales
manager
Non – Management employees:
Producing goods and services –
serving customers, order processing.
Marketing work scope and careers
• Sales manager
• Sale representative
• Advertising and promotion manager
• Marketing researcher
• Customer service manager
• Product manager
• Market manager
• Marketing vice-president
Extensive career specifications exist in enterprises
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Marketing work and careers (e.g.
defined by certification)
Identify information and research requirements for
business and marketing decisions.
Manage the acquisition of information and the
Marketing Information System (MkIS).
Contribute information and ideas for business and
marketing decisions.
Create a competitive operational marketing plan
appropriate to the organization's context.
Integrate appropriate marketing mix tools and
manage them to achieve the effective
implementation of plans
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Marketing work and careers
(e.g. defined by certification)
Define and use appropriate measures to evaluate the
effectiveness of marketing plans and activities.
Create an effective communications plan for a
specific campaign.
Manage marketing communications activities.
Develop and manage support to customers and
members of marketing channels.
Plan a marketing project.
Manage a team for marketing project or tasks.
Make recommendations for changes and innovations
to the marketing process for value enhancement
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“Battlefield” for performing marketing tasks
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MkIS as information equivalent of marketing
management of the enterprise
Management information systems have to reflect reality. By
looking at the system we should be aware of structure and
dynamics of processes of the entire scope of marketing.
E.g. accounting system of the enterprise consists of chart of
accounts interrelated by double entry principle.
What are the components of marketing system, can we
consider their entirety as information equivalent of marketing?
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MkIS and marketing of the enterprise. What
entirety we understand as system ?
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.. what tools can show us the invisible part ?
Definitions of MkIS
MIS may be defined as a set of procedures and methods
for the regular, planned collection, analysis, and
presentation of information for use in making marketing
decisions(Cox &Good, 1967)
MkIS comprises all computer and non-computer systems,
which assist the marketing function to operate effectively.
MkIS include many systems, which are not generally
thought of in marketing terms, e.g. general ledger or
production-planning systems.(O’Connor & Galvin 1997)
Marketing information systems are people, equipment, and
procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and
distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to
marketing decision makers (Armstrong & Kotler, 2007)
.. there are many more authors and definitions..
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Requirements for MkIS by definitions
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Requirements for MIS creation
MIS quality Requirement to MIS quality: description and author
MIS goal Gather , sort, distribute, analyse, evaluate pertinent, timely and accurate information (Cox and Good,
1968; McCarthy et.al., 1985; Marshall and LaMotte, 1992; Kelley, 1965)
Information for making effective decisions to improve planning, implementation and control (Kotler,
2001)
MIS structure Set of procedures and methods(Cox and Good, 1968)
Combination of procedures, human and computerised resources (Kotler, 1985; Kelley, 1965;
O’Connor and Galvin, 1999)
Formal system for creating organized information flow (Lucey, 1991, Marshall and LaMotte,1992)
Structure is freely composed of functional subsystems (Uhl, 1974)
Sources of information
processed by MIS
External, internal, research information (McCarthy et.al, 1989; Kotler, 2001)
Planning, control, research information (Smith et al., 1968)
MkIS definition summary
∞ The essence of a modern MkIS is people,
∞ who take part in the processes of
marketing management
∞ by using the most recent achievements of
IT.
∞ These processes are based on the flow of
information,
∞ which enables to solve encountered
decision problems
∞ and generate adequate marketing
decisions.
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MkIS definition summary
∞ MkIS definitions echo the management information
system, no specific marketing-related features are
presented.
∞ The marketing manager is mentioned in the definitions
without distinguishing between various types of
activities, marketing tasks or hierarchical level.
∞ MkIS is not defined as a general type of system (I-O-F),
rather it is composed of computerized and noncomputerized
elements assisting marketing
management processes.
∞ The MkiS structure is not stable, due to changing needs
in each stage of marketing processes, availability of
information technologies and data, risk, uncertainty.
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MkIS definition summary
∞ The managers become part of group which plans
information needs and implementation of MkIS. That
makes MkIS unique in each enterprise.
∞ The qualification of mangers is related to information
quality. Improvement of information quality
characteristics should go in tune with increasing skills.
∞ The changing environment for marketing decisions
requires flexibility of inclusion required information
sources.
∞ It means that the process of creating MkIS can
become ongoing, its structure composed in a flexible
way from various subsystems, and corresponds to
subjective needs of the managers.
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MkIS
Systems and Procedures
• Collection
• Analyses
• Storage
• Retrieval
and
•DisseminationMARKETING
MANAGER
Requests for
information
Regular and
customized reports
The user interaction with the
Marketing Information System (MkIS)
The features of marketing Information
System (MkIS)
Types of information needs
(classical)
Source? - knowledge of marketing manager, experience,
intelligence and derived wisdom from ability to merge
information
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Types of information needs
(contempory) Where do we get
information?
Who prepares it
to marketing
managers ?
What is the
format of
knowledge?
Marketing uses
knowledge,
created and
entered in other
departments or
organizations
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Influence of marketing theories to MkIS
Marketing is planned according to the 4P, it is implemented by
performing different specialized tasks (market analysis,
advertising, sales, customer service, etc.), it is controlled by
applying historical financial indicators, although all
marketing activities aim to bring changes in future.
Relationship marketing suggests describing marketing of the
enterprise by its set of relationships and their dynamics.
Therefore in contrary to “4P” , the RM can serve as basis for
information equivalent of the enterprise.
4P marketing is implemented by special department, and in RM
all employees ar considered as “part-time marketers”
(Gummesson, 1999)
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MkIS and marketing of the enterprise. What
entirety makes the model of MkIS system ?
∞ Structure of the model
∞ Dynamics of the
processes
∞ Information describing
the processes
∞ Evaluation of the
performance
(measures)
∞ Different levels of MkIS
representation suggest
of its multidimensional
origin
∞ How we can select
dimensions for MkIS
and create their
meaningful projections ? 39
Importance of MkIS concept and model as
adequate information equivalent of marketing
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Structure of MkIS model
∞ Many authors present their own MkIS model
∞ What is the system model in general? What parts does
it consist of?
∞ What dimensions can be observed in marketing
system?
∞ Evaluated from system theory perspective, the
suggested models can be considered as illustrative
structures.
∞ Model should reflect structure and dynamics of the
system, ensuring porssibility to transfer conceptual
model to the IS architectural model and
implementation by IT.
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The MkIS place in marketing (Kotler)
Model : Kotler P. (2003)
The MkIS model (subsystems)
Model : Kotler P. (2003)
The MkIS model (adopted by many authors :)
Model : Burns, A. & Bush, R. (1995)
The MkIS model (McCarthy)
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MKIS (Brandaid model)
An MKIS (Brandaid model) is made up of input
and output subsystems connected by a database
The Input Subsystems are:
Transaction processing system
The marketing research subsystem
The marketing intelligence subsystem
Each output subsystem provides information
about four critical elements in the marketing mix:
The product subsystem
The place subsystem
The promotion subsystem
The price subsystem
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The MkIS Brandaid model (4P)
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MkIS category of functional goal Author, source
• MkIS for collecting information and marketing
research, intelligence, senvironment scanning
Kelley, 1965; Kotler, 2001
• Computer support for marketing information
processing, modeling
Kotler, 1985; Proctor, 1991
• Creating marketing information resources for
competitive advantage
O’Brien, 1990
• MkIS information support to marketing functions:
sales management, advertising, customer
management, etc.
Moriarty and Swartz, 1989
• Information support to marketing management
processes, such as planning, decision- making
and control.
Lucey, 1991
• MkIS for needs of marketing management
hierarchical levels
Lucey, 1991; O’Brien, 1990
• MkIS supporting specialized functions: data
processing, reporting, expert systems, decision
support systems
Sprague and Carlson, 1995
• MkIS specialized for business area of enterprise Integrated IS provided by firms: Forpost,
Nasdaq, Smart Amadeus, Gabriel, Sabre,
Sirena, BABS,
• MkIS as inseparable part of IT-enabled marketing
functions: database marketing, customer
relationship marketing, etc.
Integrated IS provided by firms:
Oracle, Baan, Peoplesoft, Microstrategy,
SAS, SAP
Influence factors to MkIS creation
Factor Description
Specialization for the
business area
Specialization means that MkIS is created for fulfillment
and analysis of the operations of specific business: service,
retailing, banking, travel agency or stock exchange.
Specialization is aimed to fully adjust systems to particular
set of marketing activities, related to sales management,
customer service, or daily operations of marketing
personnel of applied business area.
Integration of
information sources of
various origin
The information for marketing management is combined
from sources originating in the departments of the
enterprise and in its external environment. It can be
intentionally collected while conducting market research as
well. The important source of information is the experience
and knowledge of marketing manager, as their work
usually involves complex decision- making activities and
require both comprehensive analysis of changing
environments and a synthesis of useful information
(Mintzberg, 1994a, 1994b).
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Influence factors to MkIS creation
Factor Description
Computerizatio
n of MkIS
The selection of possibilities for serving information needs of
marketing managers is increasing with the development of
information technologies. In most enterprises the
computerization tools of various functionality coexist
simultaneously. Surveys reveal that the most widely used
computer- based systems in marketing are general IT tools such
as spreadsheets, graphic packages, word processing, electronic
mail, relational database systems and statistic packages.
The advanced IT used for marketing are: data warehousing,
OLAP, data mining, fuzzy logics, which enable to process
complicated inquires, search for patterns in data, and handle
imprecise decision rules.
Integration of
MkIS
subsystems and
functions
The axis of integration of MkIS subsystems and functions
indicates MkIS scope, which can vary from the tools, serving
separate functions of marketing activities, to the integrated view
of marketing management activities. The integrated systems
include planning, decision-making or control subsystems. The
functional tools include customer relationship management, eprocurement
operations along supply chain, e-communication
with customers and partners via internet and extranets.
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MkIS
classification
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Functional scope of marketing information systems
Marketing information supply system Computer support for marketing
information processing and modelling
Marketing environment information analysis,
marketing intelligence system
System for creating competitive
advantage
System of
strategic
information
sources
Creating
premises
for
innovation
System for
increasing
operational
effectiveness
Support system
for marketing
activities
• Sales
management
• Poductivity of
sales personnel
• Analysis of
customer needs
• Advertising and
promotion
Support system
for marketing
management
processes
• Planning
• Organizing
• Control
• Decision
making
Information support to
marketing managers of
different hierarchical
levels
Operational level
Tactical level
Strategic level
Specialized management IS for
marketing
• Analytic processing,
reporting IS
• Expert systems ES
• Marketing modelling IS
• Executive IS (EIS)
• Decision support systems (DSS)
Business-specific,
marketingoriented
IS
• Banking IS
• Tourism IS
• Stock exchange IS
IT based marketing
(MkIS as inseparable
part of product, servise,
sales channel)
• Data base marketing
• Internet marketing
• Internet catalogs
• Marketing in e-
commerce
• Marketing of information
products and services
• Customer relationship
marketing (CRM, eCRM)
• E- supply chain
management
• E- communication with
suppliers and partners
(B2B)
• Internal marketing
SPECIALIZATIONforthebusinessarea
COMPUTERIZATION
INTEGRATION of information sources of various origin
INTEGRATION of subsystems and functions
The MkIS model evaluation
• The analysed MkIS can be applied for one or two levels of analysis and
only for partial presentation of situation and dynamics.
• The most advanced systems from the multidimensional point of view
are the CRM systems, created for enterprise relationships, directed to
customers. They present possibility to map relationships, connected
with related information created in various functional modules of
integrated system (MS Axapta, Microstrategy, SAP).
• The software for control (e.g.balanced scorecard) is created in several
integrated systems (Axapta, SAP), These parts exist separately and
cannot express the marketing processes, situation and development in
enterprise, but present possibility for their conceptual integration in a
MkIS
• The new theoretical developments of relationship marketing, knowledge
management, balanced scorecard have major influence for MkIS
creation principles. Their integrated use enables the information
processing in three levels- logical, informational and goals- and can
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Decision-making process in MkIS
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MMR MMR
MMR
Intellectual capital
Marketing research information
Enterprise information
Market information
Structurizes
Registers information
Market
phenomena
Reaction to
market
phenomena
Enterprise strategic
goals expressed by
balanced scores
Analyses
Decomposes to MMR
Makes decisions regarding MMR
Multidimensional MIS
Marketing relationships
dimension
Knowledge dimension
Balanced scorecard
dimesnion
Stores, uses
Registers decision
Scores applied to each MMR
Experience,
qualification
Decomposes to MMR
Retrieves information
MARKETING
MANAGER
Interrelationship of MIS, MkIS and IT concepts
Marketing IS concepts Management IS creation
concepts (O‘Brien, 1990)
IT concepts (O‘Brien,
1990), Zikmund et al 2003)
1 Integration of functional
modules
Management operations
processing
Transactional processing
2 Project and campaign Creating strategic
advantage
ERP (enterprise resource
planning)
CRM
Analytic applications,
EAI (enterprise application
integration), CRM
3 Value chain system
4 Competitive system
5 End-user „ad hoc“
support
6 Support for marketing
management processes
7 Marketing intelligence
system
8 Multidimensional MkIS
Decision making
support (DSS)
Expert systems (ES)
Executive information
systems (EIS)
Business intelligence
systems (BI)
data warehouses, data
mining, OLAP (online
analytical processing)
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Interrelationship of MIS, MkIS
and IT concepts
Different concepts can be identified by analysis of
functionality and structure of the existing MkIS models.
However they all are based on combining different
information processing methods implemented in MkIS
functional subsystems and cannot serve the
multidimensional origin of information processing of
marketing managers
The MIS and IT concepts for MkIS implementation
describe different perspectives of the same system.
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Assignment 1- Part 1
Tools & software: online scientific databases,
including library.muni.cz
1st Assignment has two parts:
Part 1: starting the scientific article (till Nov.5)
(abstract+introduction+analytical part+reference)
Part 2: completing the scientific article (Dec11-)
(solution+experiment+conclusion+submission)
Part 1: (individual/team) and lab work trainingscientific
writing skills: analytical part. Exploring
publications in scientific databases Springer,
Thomson, Emerald, Elsevier, IEEE, etc. Writing in
virtual teamwork space
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Assignment 1- Part 1
The research and practice of creating
MkIS in the enterprises
The task is fulfilled in teams of 2-3 people.
The goal of the task: to get acquainted to the needs
and practical solutions for implementing information
systems for marketing purposes.
For meeting this goal you are supposed to analyse
the scientific articles on MkIS experimental research
The expected outcome:
1) The first part of the scientific article (written and
submitted for first-round review)
abstract+introduction+analytical part+reference
It answers further outlined questions about 3 articles
(2 given from list, 1 found).
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Assignment 1- Part 1
The research and practice of creating
MkIS in the enterprises
List of given articles- select 2 of them:
MkIS_Finland.pdf
MkIS_UK.pdf
MkIS_Greece.pdf
MkIS_UK_km.pdf
MkIS_USA.pdf
MkIS_Taiwan.pdf
Find one more recent article on MkIS-related
research of 2008-2012 in scientific
databases Springer, Thomson, Emerald,
Elsevier, IEEE, etc.
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Assignment 1- Part 1
The research and practice of creating
MkIS in the enterprises
Questions discussed in the analytical part:
1) What we look for in the enterprises if we want to
explore systems used for marketing purposes (software,
databases, specialized systems or analytical tools, etc.)
2) What is recommended for MkiS creation by theoretical
concepts and what is used in practice? Gaps?
3) How can you describe and compare experiments by
their fulfillment strategy?
4) What are conclusions of articles, how MkIS systems
should be created, what marketing areas are not served
by systems?
5) What new solutions and technologies have emerged
having in mind time span between of articles? 59
Assignment 1- Part 1
The research and practice of creating
MkIS in the enterprises
Submission space:
1st Colloquium on Intelligent Marketing Information
Systems 2012
Please use the template for Word and Easychair
conference management systems for submission:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cimis20
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When you register the article, all the initial and further
updated versions can be submitted to the system.
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