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Stanford University

Segmentation, Value, and Launch Strategy

Stanford University via Coursera

Overview

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This course focuses on segmentation, value, positioning, and launch strategy. You will apply segmentation, targeting, and positioning to identify marketing opportunities and analyze cases including Starbucks, Azul Airlines, early pregnancy tests, SCiO, and Bugaboo. You will examine sources of customer value, including functional, economic, brand, and psychological value, and learn the ACCORD framework for building brand equity. The course also introduces new product strategy templates, including ideation, subtraction, task unification, division, multiplication, and attribute dependency templates. Through exercises, reflections, knowledge checks, case study questions, and practice defending a new-product growth strategy, you will assess product launch, positioning decisions, product ideas, prototypes, and product extensions.

Syllabus

  • Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning, and Marketing Opportunities
    • Explore the fundamentals of segmentation, targeting, and positioning, and study cases including Starbucks to find marketing opportunities.
  • Sources of Value
    • Examine functional, economic, and brand/psychological sources of customer value and understand the ACCORD framework.
  • New Product Strategy & The Bugaboo Case
    • Learn about new product templates and analyze the Bugaboo case study to assess product launch and positioning strategy.
  • Final Steps
    • Complete the final exam and the course evaluation to finalize your course experience.

Taught by

Jonathan Levav

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